From a rural New York office, Blass Marketing turns engineered products, long sales cycles and rooms full of skeptics into stories people can actually follow. Its best trick is not louder advertising. It is patient translation.
A search bar enters the Upside Down. A security company learns to loosen its tie. Inside the Oakland studio that designs what brands do, as well as how they look.
An orange-juice pouch, a rescued deadline and a self-initiated commercial reveal the practical instincts behind this motion-design business’s turn toward AI video.
A Santa Monica effects boutique filled digital stadiums, built a car commercial inside a computer, and repaired a location after demolition. Its most interesting production decision was how little company it wanted to become.
A blue hippo, a rolling hedgehog, and a kingdom of fools: Ladybird Entertainment's catalog reveals how an Iranian animation studio thinks about children, comedy, and stories that travel.
The Oakland animation studio works behind campaigns for Pinterest, Cash App and Meta AI. Its most revealing work shows how a good-looking film becomes a practical system for brands with more than one screen to fill.
A dancing pickle, a robot filming sneakers, and a cartoon with a devastating turn: inside the small motion studio that changes its methods to fit the story.
A medical implant, an off-grid charger, a gadget for carrying bags: INOVIT turns products that need explaining into short animated films. The revealing work happens before anything moves.
A loose bolt. A hidden brain injury. A surgery buried in medical jargon. DK Global turns the details that decide lawsuits into visuals people can follow.
Pumps, surgical tools and software have something in common: their best features can be hard to see. This Los Angeles studio turns the machinery inside into a story buyers can follow.
From Deadpool’s hand-drawn antics to Shohei Ohtani’s anime alter ego, Mana builds animation around the character of the job. Its project breakdowns reveal the craft, coordination and occasional three-week sprint behind the pictures.
KeyShot, developed by Luxion and now operating under the KeyShot brand, is the widely adopted standard for real-time 3D product visualization. It turns CAD and 3D model data into physically accurate, photorealistic renderings, animations and interactive visuals, letting designers and engineers preview products before physical prototypes exist. Built on rendering research from co-founder Henrik Wann Jensen (an Academy Award winner for subsurface-scattering work), KeyShot is used by tens of thousands of product teams across consumer electronics, automotive, footwear, jewelry and medical devices, and is known for pairing high-end rendering accuracy with an approachable, drag-and-drop workflow.
Krikey AI is a San Francisco-based generative AI animation platform that turns text and video prompts into 3D animated characters, avatars and full videos - no rigging, no keyframing, no animation degree required. Founded in 2017 by sisters Jhanvi and Dr. Ketaki Shriram, it serves creators, educators, marketers and businesses through its web app and integrations with Canva, Adobe Express and AWS Marketplace.