Video Game Trailer Production

Game trailer production is art: It requires expertise, experience, and dedication. It requires Pigeon Studio. Thanks to a decade of experience creating animations and ads for companies from across various industries and sectors, our team is uniquely equipped to work with you to design attractive and appealing game trailers that expertly integrate music, gameplay, story, and worldbuilding. We take advantage of every second of screen time and every inch of real estate to tell a story - your game's story. Get in touch now!

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Pigeon Studio’s Experience in Game Trailers

From A to Z, our services cater to game developers and marketers at every stage of development. From the initial phases of development creating introductory trailers to secure investments from angel investors or Kickstarter to creating promotional material for expansions of already established games.

We specialize in

• Kickstarter Trailers: Secure funding and generate buzz with a dynamic trailer that highlights your game's potential and captivates investors.
• Mobile Game Ads: Stand out in the crowded mobile market with eye-catching ads that drive downloads and engagement.
• Game Expansion Trailers: Reinvigorate your existing player base and attract new ones with trailers that showcase the latest your game has to offer!
• Educational Game Trailers: Rely on trailers that make learning fun and engaging while highlighting the educational value of your game.
• Board Game Trailers: Bring your tabletop game to life with animated trailers that showcase the gameplay and mechanics in easy-to-understand and exciting ways!

Ready to showcase your game to the world? Looking to elevate your game's marketing? Contact us today to discuss your project and discover how Pigeon Studio can help you achieve your goals!

Why Choose Pigeon Studio?

There are thousands of animation studios out there, so why choose us? The short answer is that few teams have the breadth of expertise, proven track record, and game animation production Pigeon Studio has. Whether you are a larger developer or an indie company looking to release your first game, our team is ready to work closely with you to handcraft attractive video game trailers and cinematics that will put your game on the map! From board games to educational and action games, from minute animations to social media adverts, we create various types of trailers, animations, videos and more while also offering character design, storyboarding, and composition services! Get in touch with us now and let’s discuss the details of your project.

A talented team of artists and designers

At Pigeon Studio, we are a family of talented artists and designers with extensive experience in animation, marketing, and design. We've worked with companies, startups, and entrepreneurs from across various industries, including Fortune 500 companies and game developers, to create ads, trailers, cinematics, TV animations, and much more.

We are ready and excited to work with your company to develop game trailers, cinematics, posters, and more. We work closely with your team of developers and designers to ensure your vision is present through all the art and animation we produce. From retro to modern and cartoons, our artists are capable of producing animation in various styles and schemes, and we'll be happy to be a part of your game's journey to success!

Use of cutting-edge animation and production technologies

Our team at Pigeon Studio is always excited about developments and innovations in animation and video production technology, including the use of digital art, animation software, gameplay integration, and much more.

But beyond technology, we look at game trailers as pieces of art and essential marketing tools. If you want your trailers to be designed using the latest technologies with the current trends in marketing, video production, and game presentation in mind, get in touch with Pigeon Studio.

Close cooperation with your team

At Pigeon Studio, we believe teamwork leads to success, and not only do we foster an environment of teamwork and cooperation within our company, but we work closely with every client to ensure we bring their vision to light.

This is especially important when producing animation, cinematics, and trailers for video games where keeping a consistent art style, getting the minutiae of the world and story, and highlighting gameplay elements are the keys to success.

Our team is ready to work with closely your company to achieve the results you are after. From sound design to graphics and motion, we make sure each element of the game trailer production is handled perfectly.

Affordable prices and timely delivery

We don't just offer high-quality animation, production, and character design, but we do so in a timely fashion at affordable prices. If you want a company that adheres to both deadlines and tight budget restrictions, Pigeon Studio is the right choice. Get in touch with us directly, and let's iron out the details of your project.

Types of Video Game Trailers We Produce

• Announcement and Launch Trailers

Announcement and launch trailers are one (if not THE) key promotional materials for a video game, especially an indie one. It introduces potential players to your game, it gets journalists, outlets, and social media channels interested in your product, and it helps set your game apart from competitors in stores and apps. Announcements and launch trailers can make or break a video game release.

At Pigeon Studio, we work closely with the development team to create highly engaging, dynamic, and vibrant trailers that showcase your game in the best light, including attractive hooks, gameplay demonstrations, story details, and much more.

Beyond just attracting potential players, announcement trailers are also important to attract investors and public funding. We have worked with up-and-coming video game developers to design bespoke trailers for their investor showcases and Kickstarter campaigns!

You can read all about the story of Doomlings here, a board game where we helped create the cinematics and character design for their Kickstarter announcement campaign, attracting substantial attention and helping the company raise more than a million dollars in funding!

• Gameplay Trailers

While the actual gameplay is the front and centre in gameplay trailers, that's not the only element that makes a gameplay trailer good. The trailer also needs to convey information about the game's world and story, its characters, its features, and what makes it unique.

We don’t just help our clients create gameplay trailers, we also help with character designs, storyboarding, aesthetics, and much more. We make sure every aspect of our clients’ gameplay trailers stands out. From expressive characters to dramatic transitions, every element of the animation is purposefully selected by our artists to tell a story, the story of what your game is about!

Want to read more about how we help our clients create interesting characters and appealing narratives? Check our work on Prodigy Math Games here - a highly successful educational app, Prodigy Math developers looked to create interest and hype for their new update, and what better way to do that than a highly stylised animated video that conveys the ideas behind the update through engaging characters? The video garnered more than 300,000 views and stellar reviews from their users! Pigeon Studio is ready to do that for your company as well!

• Ads

We work with your developers and ad agents to meticulously craft ads that will appeal to your audience, showcase your video game in an excellent light, and contain all the necessary information about the story, world, and gameplay you want to convey to get people interested in your game.

Dynamism is the name of the game when it comes to creating appealing and attractive ads that stand out on social media and attract new players to your game. Check out our character-driven game trailer for Food Fight, through careful use of hand-drawn cel-shaded animation, we breathed life into the characters of the game, highlighting each one’s unique attributes while keeping the trailer fast-paced and action-oriented to keep viewers’ attention!

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