Animated video can make a complicated product, service, or idea much easier to understand. That is why so many companies use animation agencies for explainer videos, product demos, training content, brand videos, sales enablement, and paid media campaigns.
But choosing the right video partner matters. A strong animation partner does more than make something look polished. They help clarify your message, choose the right visual style, guide the production process, and create a video that supports a real business goal.
This guide breaks down some of the top animation agencies to consider, what each is known for, and how to choose the right animated video production company for your project.
Best Animation Agencies to Consider
In 2026, the animation industry is brimming with creativity and innovation. Top animation agencies specialize in:
- Tailor-made video content designed to meet specific client needs
- Catering to a wide range of clients, from small startups to Fortune 500 companies
- Producing visually appealing content
- Creating assets designed to help achieve business goals
Let’s look at standout agencies that are setting the benchmark in animated video production.
Levitate Media
Levitate Media is a full-service animation and video production company that turns complex ideas into clear, polished, high-impact video content. Their strength is pairing creative production with strategic thinking, helping brands choose the right format, message, and visual approach for the goal. From 2D and 3D animation to live action and mixed media, Levitate creates videos built to explain, engage, and move audiences to action.
Best for: Action-driven animated videos built to support real business impact
Good fit for: Brands that want a strategic, high-ROI video partner with a streamlined production process. Companies that need a partner with proven experience in their industry.
Typical use cases: Explainer videos, product videos, company overviews, commercials, training content, sales videos, brand videos, and mixed-media campaigns
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Epipheo
Epipheo is a well-known explainer video company focused on helping audiences quickly understand complex ideas. Their work often centers on animated explainers, product videos, and story-driven educational content. Their own positioning emphasizes making people “get it,” which aligns well with brands that need to turn a complicated idea into a clear visual story.
Best for: Explainer videos that make complex ideas easier to understand
Good fit for: Brands that need strong concept development and message clarity
Typical use cases: Animated explainers, 3D explainers, educational videos, brand videos, testimonial videos, trade show videos, and social video ads
Explainify
Explainify focuses on short, clear animated explainer videos designed to simplify business messaging. Their style is often clean, direct, and message-first, which can work well for companies that need to explain a product or service quickly.
Best for: Concise animated explainer videos
Good fit for: Companies with a clear message that needs simple visual support
Typical use cases: Startup explainers, SaaS videos, landing page videos, and product introductions
Storyfarm
Storyfarm creates live-action, animated, and branded video content for companies, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, and education brands. They are a good fit for organizations that want story-driven content and may need animation as part of a broader video strategy.
Best for: Story-led animation and branded content
Good fit for: Brands that want a narrative-driven approach
Typical use cases: Brand films, explainers, educational content, nonprofit videos, and healthcare communications
Demo Duck
Demo Duck is a Chicago-based video production company with a strong background in animated explainers, commercials, product videos, company stories, and customer testimonials. Their range across animation, live action, motion graphics, screencasts, and mixed media makes them a flexible option for brands that want thoughtful, approachable video content.
Best for: Approachable animated explainers and mixed-media storytelling
Good fit for: Brands that want a flexible creative partner with a strong explainer-video background
Typical use cases: Animated explainers, commercials, product videos, company stories, customer testimonials, tutorials, and educational videos
Digital Brew
Digital Brew is an Orlando-based animation and live-action video company known for high-end explainer videos, motion graphics, and polished visual storytelling. They are an Emmy award-winning video production company specializing in animation and live action.
Best for: Premium animated explainers, motion graphics, and polished brand visuals
Good fit for: Companies looking for a sleek, highly produced animation style
Typical use cases: SaaS videos, technology explainers, healthcare videos, financial services videos, and brand campaigns
Next Day Animations
Next Day Animations is known for fast-turnaround animated explainer videos. They can be a useful fit for organizations that need clear, simple animation for internal communications, training, education, or marketing without a long production cycle.
Best for: Fast animated explainers
Good fit for: Teams with tight timelines or straightforward messaging needs
Typical use cases: Training videos, internal communications, nonprofit explainers, and educational videos
Vidico
Vidico is a video production company often associated with SaaS, startup, and tech-focused video content. Their animation work tends to lean modern, polished, and digital-first, making them a strong fit for software companies and growth-stage brands.
Best for: SaaS explainers, startup videos, and product storytelling
Good fit for: Tech brands that want a polished, modern look
Typical use cases: Product explainers, app videos, website videos, paid social ads, and launch campaigns
Yum Yum Videos
Yum Yum Videos creates animated explainer videos, 2D animation, motion graphics, and whiteboard animation with a focus on clarity, trust, and growth. Their style is a strong fit for brands that want polished animation that feels friendly, accessible, and easy to understand.
Best for: Animated explainers and polished 2D animation
Good fit for: Brands that want a clear, engaging, character-friendly style
Typical use cases: Product explainers, brand videos, healthcare explainers, finance videos, and educational content
Gisteo
Gisteo creates animated explainer videos, marketing videos, and concise brand storytelling content. They are often a good fit for startups, digital brands, and B2B companies that need a clear, efficient way to communicate their value proposition.
Best for: Short animated explainers and marketing videos
Good fit for: Growing companies that need clear messaging without overcomplicating production
Typical use cases: Homepage videos, product explainers, startup videos, and sales support content
What Does an Animation Agency Do?
An animation agency helps plan, write, design, animate, and deliver animated video content. Depending on the company, that may include:
- Messaging strategy
- Scriptwriting
- Storyboarding
- Art direction
- Illustration
- 2D animation
- 3D animation
- Motion graphics
- Character animation
- Voiceover
- Music and sound design
- Editing and final delivery
Some animation agencies focus only on animation. Others, like full-service video production companies, can combine animation with live action, product footage, screen recordings, interviews, or existing brand assets.
That distinction matters. If you only need a simple 60-second explainer, a specialized animation studio may be enough. If you need animation as part of a larger campaign, product launch, sales enablement library, or brand video system, a broader video production partner may be a better fit.
Why Work With an Animated Agency?
Animated videos are useful because they can show what is difficult to film, simplify what is hard to explain, and make abstract ideas feel concrete.
Animation helps simplify complex ideas
Animation is especially valuable when your product, service, or process is not easy to capture on camera. This is common in SaaS, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, logistics, cybersecurity, AI, and technical B2B services.
Instead of relying on dense copy or long sales calls, animation can visually show:
- How a product works
- What problem it solves
- Why the solution is different
- What happens before and after implementation
- How a complex process flows from one step to the next
Animation gives you more visual control
With live action, you are limited by locations, people, equipment, weather, physical products, and what can realistically be filmed. Animation gives you more control over the visual world.
That makes it useful for:
- Products that are still in development
- Software interfaces that change frequently
- Internal systems or invisible workflows
- Regulated industries where filming real people or locations is difficult
- Concepts that need metaphor, abstraction, or simplification
Animation can support multiple channels
A strong animated video can often be repurposed into shorter assets for social media, paid ads, sales emails, landing pages, trade shows, onboarding, and internal training.
This is where planning matters. If you know upfront that the video needs to work across multiple channels, your agency can build the script, scenes, aspect ratios, and deliverables around that goal.
How to Choose the Right Animation Agency
The “best” animation agency is not always the biggest, most expensive, or most visually flashy option. The right choice depends on your goals, audience, timeline, budget, and how much strategic support you need.
1. Look beyond the prettiest portfolio
A beautiful animation is not automatically an effective business video. When reviewing portfolios, ask:
- Does the video make the message easier to understand?
- Is the pacing clear?
- Does the style fit the brand?
- Is there a strong narrative structure?
- Does the video guide the viewer toward an action?
- Can the agency show work in your industry or with similar complexity?
A portfolio should prove more than visual talent. It should show that the agency understands communication.
2. Match the animation style to the goal
Different animation styles serve different purposes.
2D animation is often best for explainers, brand videos, educational content, social ads, and product overviews.
3D animation is useful for product visualization, technical demonstrations, medical devices, manufacturing, architecture, and anything that requires depth, realism, or detailed movement.
Motion graphics work well for data, process visuals, software concepts, financial services, corporate videos, and fast-paced marketing content.
Mixed media combines animation with live action, screen recordings, photography, product footage, or interviews. This can be especially useful when you want the clarity of animation but still need the credibility of real people or real products.
3. Ask about strategy, not just production
A good animation agency should ask about your audience, objective, distribution plan, and desired viewer action before jumping into visuals.
Before hiring, ask:
- Who is the video for?
- Where will it be used?
- What should viewers understand after watching?
- What action should they take next?
- Is this one video, or part of a larger content system?
- How will success be measured?
If the agency only talks about style and not strategy, the final video may look good but underperform.
4. Understand the production process
Most animated video projects follow a process like this:
- Discovery and creative brief
- Messaging strategy
- Scriptwriting
- Storyboard
- Style frames or visual direction
- Voiceover
- Animation
- Sound design
- Revisions
- Final delivery and formatting
The more complex the animation, the more important the process becomes. Script approval, storyboard approval, and style approval help prevent expensive changes late in production.
5. Clarify budget and timeline early
Animation pricing varies widely based on length, style, complexity, number of scenes, level of detail, voiceover, revisions, and deliverables. A simple 2D explainer may be much more affordable than a detailed 3D product animation or a mixed-media campaign.
Instead of asking only, “How much does a one-minute animation cost?” ask:
- What is included in the price?
- How many revision rounds are included?
- Does the price include scriptwriting?
- Does it include voiceover and music?
- Are cutdowns or alternate formats included?
- What happens if we need changes after approval?
- Can this be repurposed for ads, social, or sales?
2026 Animated Video Production Trends
Animation is changing quickly, especially as brands need more content across more channels. These are the trends worth paying attention to.
AI-assisted workflows
AI tools are starting to support parts of the animation workflow, including concept development, visual exploration, script drafts, editing assistance, translation, and versioning. However, AI does not replace strong creative direction, brand strategy, or experienced animators.
The best use of AI is usually to speed up repetitive tasks, explore options faster, and create more efficient production workflows while keeping human creative judgment in control.
More mixed-media video
Many brands are combining animation with live action, product footage, interviews, screen recordings, and motion graphics. This can make a video feel more credible and more dynamic than animation alone.
Mixed media is especially useful for B2B brands because it can show real people, real products, real software, and abstract ideas in one cohesive piece.
Shorter cutdowns for paid and social
Companies are no longer thinking about one explainer video for one webpage. They are thinking about full content systems. A single animated video can often be planned with shorter versions for LinkedIn, YouTube, Meta, sales emails, landing pages, trade shows, and retargeting.
This makes animation more valuable when the project is planned strategically from the beginning.
More industry-specific explainers
Generic explainers are less effective than they used to be. Buyers want to see that a company understands their industry, their problems, and their level of complexity.
That is why animation is especially useful in industries like SaaS, healthcare, fintech, manufacturing, logistics, AI, cybersecurity, and education. These sectors often need to explain complicated information quickly and clearly.
How to Start an Animated Video Project
Before reaching out to an animation agency, it helps to define a few basics.
Know the goal
Start with the business objective, not the video style. Are you trying to increase conversions, support sales, explain a product, train employees, build brand awareness, or launch something new?
The goal should shape the script, length, visual style, CTA, and distribution plan.
Know the audience
A video for a C-suite buyer should not sound the same as a training video for employees or a product walkthrough for users. The more specific the audience, the stronger the message.
Know where the video will live
A homepage explainer, paid ad, sales video, trade show loop, and onboarding video all need different pacing and structure. Tell the agency where the video will be used so they can plan accordingly.
Know what assets you already have
You may already have brand guidelines, product screenshots, customer quotes, sales decks, old videos, photography, diagrams, or existing scripts that can speed up production and improve consistency.
Ask about repurposing
If you need multiple assets, mention that early. A good production partner can plan for cutdowns, alternate aspect ratios, thumbnails, stills, GIFs, shorter ads, and sales clips before animation begins.
Helpful Animation and Video Production Resources
If you are still comparing styles, budgets, or production approaches, these guides can help:
- Best Explainer Videos 2026
- Top 3D Explainer Videos to Inspire You
- Affordable Explainer Videos Without Compromise
- How Much Does An Explainer Video Cost in 2026
- Cost vs. Quality in Video Production
Final Thoughts: Choosing the Right Animation Agency
The right animation agency should do more than make your video look good. A strong partner will help you clarify the message, choose the right animation style, guide the production process, and create content that supports a real business goal.
As you compare agencies, look closely at the kind of strategy they bring to the table. Do they understand your audience? Can they explain complex ideas clearly? Do they know how the video will be used after it is finished? Can they help you think beyond one deliverable and plan content that works across your website, sales process, social channels, paid campaigns, and internal communications?
Animation is most valuable when it is built with purpose. Whether you need a simple explainer, a polished product video, a 3D visualization, a commercial, or a mixed-media campaign, the best agency is the one that can connect creative execution to business impact.
Ready to Create an Animated Video That Drives Action?
Levitate Media helps brands turn complex ideas into clear, polished, high-impact video content. From 2D and 3D animation to motion graphics, live action, and mixed media, our team helps you choose the right creative approach for your message, audience, budget, and goals.
Whether you need an explainer video, product video, company overview, commercial, training asset, or a full library of campaign-ready content, we make the process strategic, streamlined, and easy to manage.
Want to plan your next animation project?
Start with our video pricing calculator to get a quick estimate, or get in touch with our team to talk through the best approach for your goals.
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