20 Best Motion Graphics Companies & Studios in 2026

Motion graphics videos are widely used in business because they can explain products, systems, data, and ideas that would be difficult to show with live action. They work especially well for SaaS, healthcare, finance, technology, and other industries where the value often lives in something the viewer cannot physically see.

But finding a good motion graphics company takes more than watching a showreel. Most studios can put together an impressive montage. What matters more is whether the team can take a complicated brief, improve the story, work with your stakeholders, and keep the quality consistent from the first script to the final animation.

At Yum Yum Videos, an animated video company, we have produced more than 1,000 custom videos since 2012. Our process separates script, storyboard, design, and animation into approval stages, so I pay close attention to how other studios structure their work and how much control the client has along the way.

For this 2026 update, I reviewed active motion graphics companies and studios with current portfolios and a clear motion design practice. Some focus almost entirely on motion. Others also handle character animation, 3D, live action, or brand design. The industry labels overlap, so motion graphics agency, motion design agency, and motion graphics studio can describe very similar services.

Our motion graphics examples guide adds 30 finished projects if you want to compare the actual work in more detail.

What Is a Motion Graphics Company?

A motion graphics company creates animated visual content using typography, graphic design, illustration, shapes, data, interface elements, 2D or 3D assets, and movement.

Some studios do almost nothing but motion design. Others combine it with character animation, live action, 3D, brand design, or explainer video production. Common motion graphics services include concept development, scripting, storyboards, styleframes, animation, sound design, and delivery in different formats.

For business work, the style is especially useful when there is no obvious thing to film. Software workflows, financial systems, healthcare platforms, data, abstract services, and product ecosystems are good examples.

Our motion graphics animation page shows how that style can work for business communication.

Motion Graphics Company vs. Motion Graphics Agency vs. Motion Graphics Studio

These labels are loose in practice.

A motion graphics studio usually describes a team centered on design and animation craft. A motion graphics agency may add strategy, campaign development, copywriting, or a broader set of deliverables. Motion graphics company is the broadest term and can describe either setup.

You will see the same overlap with motion design studio, motion design agency, motion design company, motion graphics studios, and motion design studios. I would not choose a vendor based on the label. Look at the full projects, who will actually work on yours, how approvals and revisions are handled, and whether the team has solved a similar communication problem before.

Criteria for This 2026 List

Current work. I wanted to see an active portfolio, not just older projects that still look good in a reel.

Motion design depth. One strong animation was not enough. The studio needed a body of motion work I could compare.

A recognizable strength. Some teams are better at characters, others at brand systems, product communication, or highly polished 3D. That difference is useful when you are building a shortlist.

Production range. I included both smaller studios and larger creative teams because a single explainer and a global campaign need very different setups.

Business usefulness. For client work, the reel is only part of the decision. Script support, communication, approvals, revisions, and the ability to hit a real deadline all affect the project.

I would not read the ranking too literally. A studio near the bottom can still be a better choice for a particular brief if the work matches what you need.

20 Best Motion Graphics Companies and Studios

1. Yum Yum Videos

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Most of our work at Yum Yum Videos starts with something that is hard to explain: a software platform, a financial model, a healthcare workflow, a new product, or a business idea that has no obvious visual form.

We handle strategy, script, storyboard, illustration, animation, voiceover, and sound. Depending on the project, the motion graphics may stay abstract and graphic or mix with characters, interfaces, isometric scenes, and other animation techniques.

Over 14+ years, we have produced more than 1,000 videos for companies including Amazon, McKesson, American Express, Walmart, and startups at different growth stages.

Our case studies also show the business context around that work. Accelerant raised more than $340M privately and later completed a $724M NYSE offering at a $6.4B valuation. Branch raised a $300M Series F at a $4B valuation, and BetterUp raised $300M in Series E funding at a $4.7B valuation. Those milestones belong to the clients, but they show the kind of growth stages in which our videos have been used.

For technical projects, I care a lot about the script and storyboard. If the idea is still confusing there, prettier animation will not fix it later.

2. BUCK

BUCK has extensive work in large brand systems, campaign design, 2D, 3D, and motion assets that stay consistent across many touchpoints.

Its portfolio includes brand refreshes, event graphics, campaign systems, and large sets of related deliverables. That scale is quite different from producing one standalone explainer, since the motion language has to remain recognizable across many assets and formats.

3. Giant Ant

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Giant Ant is a Vancouver studio known for animation, design, and strong original concepts. Its portfolio moves between commercial campaigns, product communication, character work, and narrative pieces for brands such as OpenTable, Duolingo, Microsoft, and Nike.

In many of those projects, character is doing real communication work. Emotion, timing, and personality help carry the idea instead of simply decorating it.

4. Oddfellows

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Oddfellows sits close to the intersection of motion design and brand design. The studio works across illustration, storytelling, campaigns, and visual systems, with projects for Spotify Premium and Adobe among its portfolio.

Several projects extend the same visual language across launch films, social content, event screens, product moments, and other brand assets. Motion often appears as part of the brand system itself rather than a layer added at the end.

5. Ordinary Folk

Ordinary Folk is a Vancouver motion design and animation studio founded in 2019. The team is relatively small, but its projects show a lot of control over typography, character, transitions, shapes, and visual metaphor. The portfolio includes work for Google, Procreate, Webflow, and other creative and technology brands.

Motion itself carries a large part of the storytelling in many of its projects. The work leans less on a conventional explainer structure and more on carefully designed movement and visual ideas.

It is also a good example of a smaller motion design studio producing visually ambitious work.

6. FEVR

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FEVR is an animation studio working across motion graphics, illustration, 2D, 3D, and art direction. The team can handle visual production from concept and graphic development through animation, voiceover, music, and sound.

Its portfolio covers brand storytelling, corporate content, and agency work across several visual approaches. Its service range also makes FEVR a fairly direct example of a full service motion graphics production company.

7. illo

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illo is based in Turin and works across motion design, illustration, and art direction. Its portfolio includes McDonald’s, Samsung, UEFA, Strava, and technology companies, along with work in 3D, advertising, automated video, and data driven content.

Across the portfolio, a few ingredients appear often: bold color, graphic illustration, clean design, and playful movement.

The studio also has work built around repeatable systems, including campaign variations, localized versions, social cutdowns, and recurring content.

8. Animade

Animade is a London animation and design studio with a real strength in character work, simple design, and precise movement. The team handles 2D, 3D, hand drawn animation, brand systems, and sound design, with recent portfolio work for LEGO, Apple, Dropbox, YouTube, Figma, Meta, and Procreate.

Warmth and humor appear frequently in the portfolio. In its stronger character projects, personality carries part of the idea instead of functioning as decoration, including work for apps, digital products, campaigns, and branded content.

9. Thinkmojo

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Thinkmojo describes itself as a video and motion studio for technology companies, and its portfolio reflects that. There is a strong concentration of software launches, B2B technology, and product communication.

Software creates its own production problems. Interfaces change, workflows can span several screens, and sometimes the real value sits in infrastructure or automation the viewer never sees directly.

Thinkmojo’s work combines product marketing and motion design, with more emphasis on explaining software products than simply showing an interface on screen.

10. Demo Duck

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Demo Duck has been producing animated business videos, product videos, and explainers for more than 15 years.

Its portfolio is centered on business communication rather than motion design for its own sake. Most projects have a clear job to do: explain a product, service, or idea to a business audience.

B2B software, services, healthcare, and other explanation heavy subjects appear frequently in its work.

11. Very True Story

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Very True Story is a full service design and animation studio with roots in San Francisco’s technology community.

Metaphor and motion appear often in its product work, especially when the product or system is difficult to show directly. The portfolio also includes more expressive narrative and brand pieces, so the work is not limited to conventional explainers.

12. Epipheo

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Epipheo has been producing explainer and business video for more than 15 years. Its services cover motion graphics, 2D and 3D animation, whiteboard videos, live action, testimonials, and social ads.

The company is set up for enterprise and business production, with the capacity to handle several formats and a larger volume of work. Its structure is broader than that of a small boutique motion studio.

13. Le Cube

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Le Cube has one of the broader visual ranges on this list. Recent work includes Marvel x Fortnite, Discord, Facebook, and Coca Cola across gaming, entertainment, and social platforms.

The studio moves between motion design, character animation, 3D, and more cinematic work. Strong visual worlds and expressive treatments appear frequently across its entertainment, gaming, and consumer projects.

14. Antimatter

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Antimatter is a motion design collective with talent working across locations. Much of its work sits in the 30 to 90 second range, including short animation, social content, TV commercials, and interface motion.

The setup is compact and the portfolio covers technology, nonprofit projects, and other short form communication. Compared with the larger companies on this list, Antimatter presents itself as a smaller and more focused motion design group.

15. Black Madre

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Black Madre is a visual arts studio in Sao Paulo working across illustration, animation, design, and art direction. Its portfolio includes campaigns for Adidas, Diageo, Pedigree, and Guarana Antarctica.

The work is much more art direction driven than a typical B2B explainer portfolio. Advertising, editorial, cultural projects, and highly illustrated campaigns make up a large part of its visual language.

16. Clim Studio

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Clim is a Barcelona motion design studio working across animation, design, 3D, illustration, and motion systems.

The team is compact, and styleframes and art direction play a visible role in the portfolio. Its work also moves comfortably between 2D and 3D, from flat graphic design to more dimensional imagery.

17. Perfect Form

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Perfect Form is an Austin motion studio working across animation and design. Its portfolio includes motion graphics, 2D, 3D, title sequences, explainers, branded content, and VFX.

That puts the studio somewhere between business communication and entertainment design. Its portfolio goes beyond conventional corporate explainers while still including commercial and branded work.

18. Cub Studio

Cub Studio is based in Brighton and works with brands, sports organizations, broadcasters, and content creators. The portfolio includes sports animation, consumer work, product animation, and plenty of character driven pieces.

Personality is one of the clearest strengths in the work. Humor, character, sports, and entertainment appear often across the portfolio.

The studio works in both 2D and 3D, so the visual approach can change quite a bit from one assignment to the next.

19. Golden Wolf

Golden Wolf is a creative agency and animation studio working across 2D, 3D, mixed media, live action, brand campaigns, and entertainment.

The portfolio is energetic and heavily connected to sports, culture, entertainment, and large consumer brands. There is often more attitude and spectacle here than in a conventional business explainer, and much of the work is campaign or entertainment driven.

20. ManvsMachine

ManvsMachine is a London design and motion studio working across branding, commercials, animation, film, and visual arts. Since 2007, its work has covered product imagery, typography, CG, and motion systems.

Its portfolio is much closer to design led campaign production than to a conventional explainer studio. Product imagery, typography, CG, launches, and large global brand work make up much of what the studio does.

Three Client Projects That Show How We Use Motion Graphics

Because Yum Yum Videos is included in the ranking, I wanted to add three real projects instead of asking you to take our own description at face value.

The business milestones below belong to the clients. I am including them as context for when the videos were used and what those companies were building. Our part was the communication: make a complicated idea easier for customers, investors, or other stakeholders to understand.

1. Advisors Capital Management

We created four custom explainer videos for Advisors Capital Management beginning in 2020. The videos explained its Income with Growth philosophy, Pathfinder solution, and wealth advisory services, and were used on the company website and product pages.

By 2025, ACM had surpassed $9.5B in assets under management. The videos gave the company a clearer way to introduce its investment approach to prospects.

2. Branch

We created a custom animated explainer for Branch in 2022 covering deep linking, mobile attribution, and its open ecosystem.

Branch raised $300M in Series F funding at a $4B valuation that year. Our video translated deep linking, attribution, and other invisible infrastructure into a story a viewer could actually follow.

3. BetterUp

Between 2020 and 2022, we produced two custom videos for BetterUp using mixed media and motion graphics. One explained the platform and onboarding experience. The other focused on enterprise coaching and performance.

BetterUp raised $300M in Series E funding at a $4.7B valuation in 2021. The videos helped make an abstract coaching service more concrete by showing the platform, onboarding experience, and enterprise use case visually.

How Much Do Motion Graphics Companies Charge?

The price depends heavily on what you are actually asking the studio to make. A short social asset using an existing brand system is very different from a custom two minute explainer with strategy, script, original design, animation, voiceover, and sound. A full motion identity with dozens of deliverables is a different project again.

Our 2026 pricing research found a $7,000 to $18,000 per minute range for professional motion graphics. Premium brand studios and complex 3D productions can go much higher.

At Yum Yum Videos, projects commonly fall around $8,000 to $15,000 per minute, depending on scope.

Our animation cost per minute research includes the full methodology and pricing tiers.

Five Criteria I Use to Compare Motion Graphics Companies

Start With the Communication Problem

Before comparing styles, be clear about what the video has to do. Is the hard part explaining a workflow, introducing a product, building a brand world, or getting people to remember a campaign?

Then review the portfolio with that problem in mind. For a technical project, ask how the studio handles discovery, research, scripting, and visual metaphors, and who is responsible for each step.

Watch Complete Projects, Not Just the Reel

A reel is useful for judging taste, but it leaves a lot out. Watch two or three complete videos from each studio and open the case studies when they are available.

I usually pay attention to what happens after the first 20 seconds. A beautiful five second transition tells you very little about whether a two minute business video stays clear, well paced, and visually consistent.

Ask Who Will Actually Work on the Project

Ask who will write the script, direct the piece, design it, animate it, and manage your feedback. A company may have a big name or a large headcount, but your experience depends on the people assigned to your project.

It is also worth asking which roles are permanent staff and which are freelance. Both setups can work well. You just want to know whether the same people will stay involved from script through animation.

Understand the Revision Process

Ask exactly when you approve the script, styleframes, storyboard, and animation, and how many revision rounds are included at each stage.

This matters because a sentence is easy to change in a script. The same change can mean rebuilding scenes once animation is underway. Revision rules are worth understanding before production starts.

Match the Studio to the Deliverables

Be specific about what you need after the main video is finished. One hero film, a six month content series, localized versions, event graphics, and social cutdowns can require very different production setups.

A studio that is perfect for one beautifully crafted piece may not be the best team for forty related assets, and the reverse is also true.

Motion Graphics Production Timeline: What to Expect

A professional custom motion graphics project often takes around 6 to 8 weeks from kickoff to delivery.

That timeline can move in either direction. A simple piece may be faster, while complex 3D, several stakeholder groups, multiple languages, or a large number of deliverables can add time.

At Yum Yum Videos, rush projects can sometimes be completed in roughly 3 to 4 weeks when the scope is controlled and approvals move quickly.

When you compare studios, ask how long each approval stage gets and what happens if feedback arrives late. That usually tells you more about the real schedule than the headline delivery time.

FAQ About Motion Graphics Companies

What does a motion graphics company do?

A motion graphics company designs and animates visual content using typography, illustration, shapes, data, interface elements, 2D assets, 3D assets, and other graphic elements. Services may include strategy, scriptwriting, storyboarding, design, animation, voiceover, music, and sound.

What is the difference between a motion graphics company and a motion design studio?

There is no strict industry definition. A motion design studio often emphasizes design and animation craft, while a motion graphics company may offer a broader production service. In practice, companies use the terms interchangeably.

Is a motion graphics agency different from a motion graphics studio?

Sometimes. A motion graphics agency may handle strategy, campaign thinking, copywriting, and multiple deliverables in addition to animation. A studio may focus more heavily on creative production. Compare the services each team actually provides, from strategy and scripting to design, animation, and delivery.

How much does a motion graphics company cost?

We contacted 125 animation companies and received 61 usable quotes for our 2026 pricing study. Within that research, a practical range for professional motion graphics was $7,000 to $18,000 per minute. Complex 3D work and large brand systems can cost more.

What are the best motion graphics companies for SaaS?

For SaaS and technical B2B communication, Yum Yum Videos focuses on custom business explainers, Thinkmojo on technology and product launches, Demo Duck on B2B explainers and product videos, and Epipheo on enterprise explainer work.

What are the best motion design studios for brand work?

BUCK, Oddfellows, ManvsMachine, Golden Wolf, Ordinary Folk, Giant Ant, illo, and Animade are useful references for brand systems, campaign motion, motion design, and premium creative work.

Should I hire a freelancer or a motion graphics production company?

A freelancer can be a good fit when the scope is narrow and you already have the script, design direction, and production management covered. A production company becomes more useful when you need several disciplines working together, tighter project management, or a larger number of deliverables.

What should I ask a motion graphics agency before hiring it?

Ask who will work on the project, what the production stages are, how revisions work, what is included in the quote, which source files you receive, how the studio handles schedule changes, and whether it has experience with your type of audience or subject.

How to Shortlist Three Motion Graphics Studios

Keep the final shortlist to three companies. Once you are comparing ten or twenty proposals, the differences get harder to remember and the decision usually becomes noisier.

For each studio, watch two or three complete projects and write down four things: whether the story is clear, whether the visual style fits your audience, who would work on the project, and exactly what the quote includes.

Then weight those four areas based on the job. A technical explainer needs strong scripting and business communication. A brand system needs evidence that the visual language can work across formats. Character driven advertising needs characters that still feel convincing after more than a few shots.

I would score the final three from 1 to 5 on story clarity, visual fit, team continuity, and quote scope. That small scorecard makes the tradeoffs much easier to see.