COVID-19 has shown us what it means to be isolated, disconnected and alone. As the post-pandemic academic world rebuilds itself, we will need to get serious about communicating diversity, inclusion and belonging to an ever-wider group of people in education. Visual communication is the key to conveying universally understood content that is highly effective and fits our new, digital-only lockdown environment. This article pulls on a strand of a recent University of Amsterdam study testing the effectiveness of animation in professional education, told in the COVID-friendly form of an animated story: https://youtu.be/SH7QzlPfyb8