Character Animation
Give your brand a character people actually remember. We build mascots and rigged 2D characters that move with real personality and stay on model everywhere they show up, so scene ten looks exactly like scene one. One embedded team learns your character and keeps it that way.
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What we produce
Every kind of character work, from one team that stays with your character job after job.
Mascot and brand character animation
Your mascot, animated so it acts like a character instead of a logo with legs. We give it the small habits (a certain walk, a signature shrug) that make people recognize it before they read a word.
Rigged 2D characters
We build one clean rig (arms, mouth, eyes, turns) so your character reposes and animates without redrawing every frame. The tenth scene takes a fraction of the effort of the first.
Character-led explainers and ads
A character carries your message better than narration over stock footage. We build explainers and ad spots around yours, so there's a face to follow and real feeling behind the pitch.
Expressions and lip-sync
This is the part that sells it. We match mouth shapes to your script or recorded voice, then animate the face around them, so your character reads as talking and feeling, not miming along.
Character design to animation
Starting from nothing? We design the character, agree the look and personality with you, then rig and animate it. One team from first sketch to final frame, so nobody's fighting a design that was never built to move.
Recurring character for a series
Once a character connects, you'll want it back. We keep the rig and model sheet on file, so it returns identical in episode ten, not a slightly redrawn cousin each time.
And plenty more, wherever a character carries the story.
Keep your character on model, everywhere, every time.
Character animation lives or dies on consistency. Let it drift off model or get re-rigged by whoever's free that week, and it stops reading as a character at all. Here's how the usual ways of getting it made stack up against one team that keeps it.
Most brand mascots die in the style guide
Plenty of companies pay for a lovely mascot, park it in the brand guidelines, and never move it again. But a character that never moves is just a drawing with a job title. People bond with a character by watching it react, and reaction only happens in motion.
The quieter killer is drift. A character that looks a little different in every video stops reading as a character and starts reading as clip art. Keep the rig, keep the model sheet, keep the same hands on it, and people start to recognize your character the way they'd spot a friend across a room.
How we animate characters at Moonb
Bring us a finished character or just an idea. If it exists, we study your model sheet and build a clean rig around it, so it moves the way you already picture it. If it doesn't, we design it first and nail the look and personality before a single frame moves. Then comes the performance: the expressions, the lip-sync, the body language (a nervous fidget, a proud little chest-puff) that make a character feel like someone instead of a shape. Your Creative Director watches all of it, so whether it's one ad or a running series, the character stays on model and stays itself.
Why a character beats a spokesperson
A character never ages, never renegotiates, and can be anywhere your brand needs to be. Give an idea a face and audiences follow it through material they would never read as a paragraph. That is why the brands you remember from childhood are the ones that drew somebody.
The character work we animate
Designed, rigged, and performed in your brand world.
- Brand mascots and casts
- Character-led explainers
- Educational series characters
- Social sticker and reaction packs
- Walk cycles and action loops
- Dialogue and lip-sync scenes
- Onboarding guides and helpers
- Character ads and campaigns
Performance, not just movement
Animation becomes character the moment a figure seems to decide before it acts. That is acting, in drawings. We build personality into the timing itself: hesitation, weight, the small look before the move.
Characters decide, then move.
How it works
From signup to first delivery in under 2 days.
Meet your team
You get a Creative Director and specialists who learn your brand, your assets, and how you work.
About 30 minutesSend the work
Brief them like colleagues. Your Creative Director runs the queue and keeps everything on-brand.
As much as you needGet it back fast
Polished work comes back on a steady weekly rhythm, revisions included until it is right.
No change-order feesThey were capable of adapting to fast delivery deadlines.
Ready to start your character animation?
Book a CallFrequently Asked Questions
Yes, and most of our character work starts right there. You send the existing artwork and model sheet, we build a rig around it and animate, without redrawing or quietly redesigning what you already signed off on. If your files are messy or you only have a few final poses, we can rebuild what the rig needs from those.
That's fine. Design and animation happen under one roof here. We design the character, agree the look and personality with you, then rig and animate it. You're not project-managing a designer and an animator who've never spoken, and the character is drawn to move from the start.
One rig, one model sheet, and the same people animating every job. When a character drifts, it's almost always because a new pair of hands rebuilt it from scratch. We keep the rig on file and reuse it, and your Creative Director checks each new piece against the original before it ships.
Yes, and it's usually what separates a character that feels alive from one that just waves its arms. We match mouth shapes to your script or recorded voice, then animate the face around them (the brow, the eyes, the little reactions between lines) so it reads as actually talking and thinking.
That's one of the best reasons to rig one properly. Once the rig exists, bringing the character back for the next explainer, ad, or social cut is mostly animation, not rebuilding. The series stays consistent and each new piece comes together faster.
It depends on length and how much has to happen on screen. Rough shape: rigging an existing character is the first stretch, a short character-led spot follows soon after, and once the rig exists the follow-ups move much quicker. We give you a real timeline once we've seen the character and the script, not a number pulled out of the air.
Yes. The character, the rig, and the working files are yours. We'd rather you never feel locked in, and keeping the rig means whoever animates the character next starts from the same clean setup instead of rebuilding it.
Most of our character work is rigged 2D, which is quick to iterate and keeps a character sharp and on brand. If yours needs real dimension or a more sculpted look, we can take it into 3D too. We'll steer you to whatever serves the character and the story.
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