Animated shapes assembling into a circle to represent the amalgamation of BC's oral health regulatory colleges

Regulator explainer for BC oral health professionals

An explainer animation introducing BC's new unified oral health regulator to dental professionals across the province


Overview

The BC College of Oral Health Professionals is the regulatory body for dental professionals across British Columbia, formed through the amalgamation of four predecessor colleges. This project’s challenge was not just announcing the change, but helping dental professionals understand why it was happening and what it meant for them, while positioning the new college as modern, independent, and trustworthy.

We created an explainer animation for the BC College of Oral Health Professionals through Leap Creative to introduce the new unified regulator to dental professionals and oral health college registrants across BC. The animation is featured on the BCCOHP website and YouTube channel.

Working with Anatomii provided us with what we needed for a project with a tight deadline. Anatomii's communication was concise and precise to ensure we get it right the first time. Highly creative, we would most definitely recommend Anatomii for any animation projects.

Gavin Chow
Art Director, Leap Creative



Approach

Visual metaphors

The primary design challenge was making an abstract regulatory concept feel tangible. To represent the amalgamation, we used shapes as a visual metaphor: four angular shapes representing the existing colleges move toward each other and morph into a single circle representing the new regulator. The choice of a circle was deliberately distinct from the angular forms of the predecessor colleges, signalling a genuinely new entity rather than a simple merger of existing ones.

Animated GIF of a circle representing the new oral health regulator expanding outward with concentric rings labeled with its mission goals, including patient safety and better health outcomes, set against a night sky
Animated shapes assembling into a circle to represent the amalgamation of BC's oral health regulatory colleges

Cultural responsiveness

We illustrated dental professionals and patients representing diverse ethnicities, ages, body sizes, and genders.

Illustration of a diverse group of dental professionals and patients of different ethnicities, ages, body sizes, and abilities, including a person in a wheelchair and a person using a cane
Animated GIF of oral health professionals animating into frame one by one from above, representing the range of regulated dental professions under the new regulator

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