20 Best Motion Graphics Companies in 2026

Before anything else: I work at Moonb, and we open this list, so treat our own entry with the skepticism you would give any company grading its own homework.

“Motion graphics” is doing a lot of quiet work as a phrase. It covers the animated explainer that walks a buyer through your product, the ten-second brand ident at the top of a film, the tiny UI animations that make an app feel alive, and the broadcast title sequence with a six-figure render behind it. The studios that live at the art-house end of that range rarely touch a fast explainer, and the shops that turn explainers around every week are not the ones you call for a Cannes-grade brand film. So the useful first move is not comparing companies, it is naming which kind of motion work you actually need.

I checked all twenty of these in July 2026, confirmed each is live and taking work, read the clients each one names on its own site, and wrote down one honest limitation for every entry. Several of them publish real pricing, which I have quoted directly; the rest price per brief, and I say so rather than guessing. If your project leans more toward live action or 3D, our roundups of corporate video production companies and 3D video production companies cover those neighbours.

The 20 best motion graphics companies

1. Moonb

Since I work here, take this one with a grain of salt and judge the rest on their merits. Moonb is an embedded creative team that produces motion graphics as part of your wider design, video, and animation output, with a senior Creative Director keeping it all on-brand.

• Best for: brands that want motion running continuously alongside the rest of their creative, not commissioned one film at a time
• Clients they name: Dell, Toyota, Nestle
• Pricing: a set monthly cost, or a per-project quote when the work suits that better
• Why they stand out: motion that stays consistent with everything else you make, because the same team makes all of it
• Worth knowing: for a single showpiece brand film with no ceiling on the render, the boutique art-houses below go deeper on one hero piece

2. Giant Ant

Giant Ant is the Vancouver studio other animators idolise, with a warm, story-first style that makes even dry subjects feel human.

• Best for: narrative-led motion where craft and storytelling carry the whole piece
• Clients they name: OpenTable, Duolingo, Microsoft
• Pricing: per project, undisclosed
• Why they stand out: consistently award-level animation with a signature you can recognise across a room
• Worth knowing: a selective boutique, so timelines and cost sit at the premium, considered end

3. BUCK

BUCK is one of the most awarded motion design companies on earth, a global studio operating since 2004 across five offices.

• Best for: ambitious, high-end motion and animation for major brand campaigns
• Clients they name: J.P. Morgan Payments, Kia, Dunkin’, Coinbase
• Pricing: custom, bespoke per brief
• Why they stand out: elite craft with a deep bench and a shelf of industry awards to match
• Worth knowing: enterprise-scale and priced for it, which puts it out of reach for lean or fast-turnaround work

4. ManvsMachine

ManvsMachine, now part of Landor and Fitch, is a London and Los Angeles studio revered for high-end 3D motion where lighting and material realism reach an art form.

• Best for: premium, art-directed 3D motion and brand film
• Clients they name: its own site leans on the work rather than a logo wall
• Pricing: custom, bespoke per brief
• Why they stand out: more than sixty industry awards and a reputation for craft other studios study
• Worth knowing: a premium agency-tier studio with no published pricing, aimed at large brand budgets

5. Golden Wolf

Golden Wolf is a London and New York studio with a loud, kinetic house style across 2D and 3D character animation, and an Emmy nomination to show for it.

• Best for: bold, culture-forward brand animation with real energy
• Clients they name: Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Epic Games
• Pricing: custom, per brief
• Why they stand out: a distinctive, recognisable style trusted by some of the biggest consumer brands going
• Worth knowing: broadcast-tier positioning means premium project costs and no fast, always-on option

6. Illo

Illo is a Turin studio whose colour-drenched motion design and illustration land it work with some of the most recognisable names in tech.

• Best for: vivid, illustration-led motion with a strong art direction
• Clients they name: Google, Samsung, Pinterest, McDonald’s
• Pricing: per project, undisclosed
• Why they stand out: a distinctive aesthetic and blue-chip roster from a genuinely boutique team
• Worth knowing: art-direction-led and animation-only, with no live-action capability and premium timelines

7. Kasra Design

Kasra Design has produced explainers and 2D and 3D motion since 2011 from Malaysia and Singapore, with a US presence in Anaheim.

• Best for: polished 2D and 3D explainer animation at accessible rates
• Clients they name: Shell, Visa, Intel, Panasonic
• Pricing: per project, with quote bands running roughly $3,000 to $50,000
• Why they stand out: Fortune 500 clients and award recognition at prices well below most Western studios
• Worth knowing: focused on animation and explainer work, so not the pick for on-camera or live-action needs

8. Epipheo

Epipheo helped define the modern explainer around 2009 and has kept at it, employee-owned and still winning Tellys in 2026.

• Best for: enterprise explainer and animated motion with a proven process behind it
• Clients they name: Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Deloitte
• Pricing: published bands, roughly $15,000 to $45,000 for a 2D explainer, more for larger scope
• Why they stand out: volume plus longevity, with 6,000-plus videos for major names
• Worth knowing: a $15,000 floor and an explainer-centric focus put it beyond smaller or broader briefs

9. Yum Yum Videos

Yum Yum Videos is a Miami studio with a Buenos Aires production base, specialising in strategic B2B and SaaS animated explainers for over a decade.

• Best for: strategy-led animated explainers for software and B2B brands
• Clients they name: Google, Amazon, McKesson, Thermo Fisher
• Pricing: quote-based via a cost calculator, with third-party listings citing around $8,000 to $15,000
• Why they stand out: a long track record and a roster of blue-chip names that signals reliability
• Worth knowing: quote-only with seven to nine week timelines, so it is not a fast or always-on option

10. Demo Duck

Demo Duck has run out of Chicago since 2011 with genuine range across both animation and live action.

• Best for: explainer and marketing motion from a studio that can also shoot live action
• Clients they name: Google, Dropbox, GEICO, Netflix
• Pricing: per project, undisclosed on its own site
• Why they stand out: a credible, recognisable client roster and real breadth of formats
• Worth knowing: pricing is quote-only, and its centre of gravity is explainer and marketing rather than high-end brand film

11. Vidico

Vidico is a Melbourne studio with offices reaching New York and beyond, running a productized model across animation and video.

• Best for: tech and startup brands wanting motion with a repeatable, lower-per-asset model over time
• Clients they name: Spotify, Square, Airtable, Digital Ocean
• Pricing: simple 2D animation from about $5,000, with monthly arrangements starting near $5,000
• Why they stand out: a recognisable tech roster and a system built for ongoing output rather than one-offs
• Worth knowing: the entry price is high and an APAC base can mean timezone friction for US teams

12. Motion Giraffx

Motion Giraffx is a Houston studio built to explain genuinely complicated subjects, strong in industrial and technical sectors where the story is hard to tell.

• Best for: motion that makes complex, technical products understandable
• Clients they name: SLB, Aramco, Liberty Energy, American National
• Pricing: quote-based, no published numbers
• Why they stand out: deep experience turning dense technical topics into clear animated stories
• Worth knowing: a boutique with an industrial focus, so pricing and fit depend heavily on the brief

13. Yans Media

Yans Media has focused narrowly on animated explainers and motion graphics for 13 years, with clear published pricing.

• Best for: transparent-priced animated explainers and short motion tasks
• Clients they name: Cisco, DoorDash, Visa, Databricks
• Pricing: published, roughly $5,000 to $8,500 for a 60 to 90 second explainer, motion graphics from about $1,500
• Why they stand out: upfront rates and a real specialist track record of 650-plus videos
• Worth knowing: a single lane, animation and motion only, with no live-action or 3D breadth

14. Thinkmojo

Thinkmojo is a San Francisco studio with a Montreal office and a strategy-led process that maps video to specific moments in the customer journey.

• Best for: SaaS brands wanting motion tied to a considered content strategy
• Clients they name: Salesforce, Zendesk, Discord, Calendly
• Pricing: per project, undisclosed
• Why they stand out: strong enterprise SaaS credibility and a strategic approach behind the craft
• Worth knowing: premium and project-based, so it is opaque and likely costly for smaller teams

15. Gisteo

Gisteo is a Miami studio covering 2D, 3D, whiteboard, and motion, and it is refreshingly upfront about what things cost.

• Best for: mid-market explainers and motion with clear, published pricing
• Clients they name: National Military Family Association, Rayonier, KemperSports Management
• Pricing: published, from about $3,500 for a first 60 seconds, scaling per additional time
• Why they stand out: transparent flat pricing and a broad in-house range in one shop
• Worth knowing: positioned as a value and mid-market option rather than a premium brand-creative partner

16. 87seconds

87seconds is a Brussels studio with offices in Paris and Spain, offering a broad in-house creative range from motion to film.

• Best for: multi-market motion and content for large consumer brands
• Clients they name: Maybelline New York, Tabasco, Darty, Vichy
• Pricing: per project, undisclosed
• Why they stand out: wide in-house capability and a strong roster of blue-chip consumer names
• Worth knowing: no published pricing and an orientation toward larger brand engagements

17. BuzzFlick

BuzzFlick is an animation-first studio out of Houston, covering 2D, 3D, explainer, and motion graphics with published price bands.

• Best for: animation and explainer work where a clear starting price matters
• Clients they name: Earthlink, Klevu, Dassault, ASRC
• Pricing: published bands, explainers roughly $1,500 to $10,000, up to about $50,000 at the top
• Why they stand out: transparent pricing and a solid track record since around 2016
• Worth knowing: narrowly animation and explainer focused, with a fair amount of templated project work

18. Blue Carrot

Blue Carrot is a globally distributed studio rooted in Lviv with a Denver presence, deep in animated explainer and educational motion.

• Best for: animated explainer and e-learning motion, including 2D, 3D, and whiteboard
• Clients they name: United Nations, USC, Charité, DNB
• Pricing: per project, with a cost-calculator tool but no published bands
• Why they stand out: credible enterprise, university, and NGO work across a wide animation range
• Worth knowing: skewed toward animation and e-learning rather than premium brand film, and pricing is quote-only

19. Ravie

Ravie is a US boutique built around a signature motion-design aesthetic, with side-project loops that have pulled tens of millions of views.

• Best for: design-forward motion with a distinctive, modern look
• Clients they name: Google, Brave, Aura, Coinbase
• Pricing: per project, undisclosed, with the site pointing to a consultation call
• Why they stand out: genuine motion-design pedigree and recognisable brand work from a small team
• Worth knowing: a boutique built around one aesthetic, with limited capacity and no transparent pricing

20. Superside

Superside is a remote-first company delivering design, motion, and video through a managed team of vetted global creatives at enterprise scale.

• Best for: high-volume motion output delivered through a managed, always-on model
• Clients they name: Amazon, Reddit, Salesforce, Coinbase
• Pricing: retainer-based, quoted rather than listed, generally a high monthly commitment
• Why they stand out: scale and breadth across 700-plus creatives spanning design, motion, and video
• Worth knowing: built for high-spend enterprise volume with typically year-long commitments, not single-project craft

How I would narrow it down

I brief this kind of work often, and a few checks separate a good hire from an expensive mismatch.

• Pin down the format before you shortlist. A broadcast title studio and a SaaS explainer shop both call themselves motion graphics companies, and they are barely the same trade. Decide whether you need explainer, brand ident, UI motion, or broadcast, then filter for it.
• Watch the reel for your kind of piece. A gorgeous title sequence tells you little about whether a studio can carry a two-minute product explainer. Ask to see the closest thing to your brief, not the showreel highlight.

Before you judge anyone’s reel, spend six minutes with Little White Lies on Saul Bass, the designer whose title sequences invented this discipline. Once you see how much a few moving shapes can carry, you will read every studio’s work on this list differently.

- **Read the pricing signal honestly.** A studio that publishes bands is telling you it does defined, repeatable work; a studio that only quotes is telling you every job is bespoke. Neither is wrong, but they suit very different projects. - **Separate style from range.** Some of these teams own one look brilliantly, which is perfect if it is your look and limiting if it is not. Others flex across styles at the cost of a signature. - **Ask who animates it.** At the boutique end you get the named talent; at the platform end you get whoever the network assigns. For a hero piece, that difference matters.

Mistakes I see buyers make

1. Hiring a brand-film studio for a routine explainer. The craft is real, and so is the price and timeline. For a straightforward product walkthrough, a specialist explainer shop delivers faster for a fraction of the cost.
2. Falling for the showreel instead of the relevant work. A studio’s best three seconds are not a promise about your two minutes. Always ask for the nearest match to your actual brief.
3. Underbudgeting revisions. Animation changes are expensive because a note can mean re-animating a whole scene. Lock the script and the style frames before anyone starts moving pixels.
4. Confusing volume with craft, or the reverse. A platform built for weekly output is the wrong home for a once-a-year hero film, and an art-house boutique is the wrong home for fifty social cutdowns a month.

The full field, one table

#	Company	Focus	Best for	Pricing
1	Moonb	On-brand motion in a team	Motion inside ongoing creative	Set monthly cost
2	Giant Ant	Narrative animation	Story-first motion craft	Per project
3	BUCK	High-end motion design	Major brand campaigns	Custom
4	ManvsMachine	Premium 3D motion	Art-directed brand film	Custom
5	Golden Wolf	Character animation	Bold, energetic brand work	Custom
6	Illo	Illustration-led motion	Vivid art-directed pieces	Per project
7	Kasra Design	2D and 3D explainer	Accessible explainer motion	$3k to $50k
8	Epipheo	Enterprise explainer	Proven explainer programs	$15k to $45k
9	Yum Yum Videos	B2B explainer	SaaS animated explainers	~$8k to $15k
10	Demo Duck	Animation and live action	Explainer with range	Per project
11	Vidico	Productized animation	Ongoing tech-brand motion	From $5k
12	Motion Giraffx	Technical motion	Explaining complex products	Quote-based
13	Yans Media	Explainer and motion	Transparent-priced explainers	$5k to $8.5k
14	Thinkmojo	Strategy-led SaaS motion	Journey-mapped video	Per project
15	Gisteo	Broad, value motion	Priced mid-market explainers	From $3.5k
16	87seconds	Multi-market motion	Big consumer brand content	Per project
17	BuzzFlick	Animation-first	Priced explainer work	$1.5k to $10k
18	Blue Carrot	Explainer and e-learning	Educational motion	Per project
19	Ravie	Design-forward motion	Distinctive modern look	Per project
20	Superside	Motion at scale	High-volume managed output	Retainer