Cel Animation Services
Cel animation has a timeless charm, and we use it to tell great stories, frame by frame. Due to its expressiveness and creative nature, Cel animations are our team's favorite medium, and this is certainly reflected in our art, which features rich backgrounds, interesting characters, and distinctive art styles that enrich your educational materials, improve your marketing campaign, and help kick your fundraiser campaign off the ground! Let's work together now!
Case Studies
See how brands, products, ideas, and values turn in our hands into potent visual matter
We bring the most out of traditional cel animation to offer compelling narratives, communicate complex ideas, and deliver evocative animated videos without either compromising on our artistic vision or your brand.
Meet Cel Animation Services at Pigeon Studio
Hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation
Our artists produce high-quality frame-by-frame animation for both the big screen and digital media. We've worked with enterprises, video game companies, and TV productions to produce funny, engaging, and unique animated content!
Fluid motion and character animation
From wacky video game characters with a sense of humor to serious B2B marketing campaigns, we design animations with compelling characters, deliver effective messages, and leave an impression on your viewers.
To see our character animation work firsthand, check out the teaser trailer we created for the video game Prodigy's latest expansion. Bringing the game's characters to life through vibrant colours and fluid animation, the trailer was an undeniable success, gathering more than 10 million impressions across all channels and offering a staggering 26% click-through rate in paid campaigns.
Narrative-driven brand storytelling
Our team makes sure an animated video is more than just a collection of moving images. It is a complete narrative with your brand/product/message at the very center of it. We make sure our videos tell your story and communicate your vision.
An engaged production process
From storyboarding to character design and sound effects, our animators work side-by-side with you to craft videos that reflect your vision and communicate your key messages to viewers. Creating cel animation is a collaborative process, and we are not leaving you behind!
Type of Cel Animation Videos We Produce
Marketing videos
Distinguishing your brand and products on the market has never been more difficult. We've all been bombarded by low-quality banner, picture, and video ads so much so that our eyes glaze over legitimate products/services that we might otherwise be interested in.
We design our animated marketing videos with this media landscape in mind. They feature unique art, interesting characters, and dynamic settings that act as a breath of fresh air, immediately grabbing viewers' attention whether used on TV or social media.
Many corporations use animated videos as an integral part of their marketing strategy, and by contacting Pigeon Studio, it can also be a key part of your success as well!
Corporate videos
From landing pages to product announcements and tutorials, the use of cel animations adds a unique touch to your marketing approach, helping potential customers stay engaged, explore your products, and even laugh at a clever reference or a silly movement.
Our talented artists can help you join their ranks by producing animated content that reflects your brand, puts your products in the central focus, and helps you reach a broader audience beyond just traditional channels.
Game video
Cel-animated videos have a timeless appeal that makes them perfect for game trailers. They are an excellent way to introduce your world, game characters, and core mechanics in a compelling animated sequence that grabs the audience's attention and helps them form an emotional connection with the characters.
At Pigeon Studio, we've worked closely with video game companies to design both initial trailers for Kickstarter and marketing campaigns, and expansion trailers that helped generate buzz and improve the games' reach.
One of our favorite projects was working on a teaser trailer for the game Food Fight. Blending in gorgeous, hand-drawn cel frame-by-frame animation with vibrant environments, our trailer brought Food Fight's beloved characters to life, becoming a hit with both our client and their playerbase!
Educational and explainer videos
The art style of Cel animations, with its distinctive characters, imaginative backgrounds, and clear motion, makes for excellent educational videos. This is precisely why traditional animation has long been used as an educational aid in schools.
We go beyond the traditional approaches and create compelling, data-driven animated education videos from product tutorials to corporate onboarding.
Fundraising and event videos
Nongovernmental organizations and fundraisers often need to tell emotionally evocative stories that properly contextualize the issues they want to tackle and shed light on them. Pigeon Studio helps you communicate the issues you want to tackle, your solutions, and fundraising goals through beautiful hand-drawn animation that captures the audience's attention and springs them into action.
CEL Animation FAQ
Are Traditional Animation Videos Still Effective Marketing Tools?
Hand-drawn cel animations have a timeless appeal that's very hard to replicate. CGI methods and tools rapidly evolve and develop, but on a base level, hand-drawn animations still use the same tools, which is why animated cartoons from decades ago seem evocative and appealing to many people while CGIs from just 5 or 10 years ago often seem rudimentary and outdated. This is largely why traditional animations offer a nostalgic, familiar feeling that can work exceptionally well in marketing.
But CEL animations aren't just nostalgia bait. From modern to cyberpunk and Sci-fi aesthetics, cel animations can be sleek and take advantage of digital tools to create more complex backgrounds and animations. This freedom is precisely why cel animation services are an excellent choice for marketing campaigns.
How Much Does It Cost to Create Animations?
Creating animated videos is an intricate, time-consuming process, which is why direct cost estimations can be tricky. The cost largely depends on the techniques and technologies used to create the video, the length of the final product, the inclusion of voice acting and sound effects, and more. At Pigeon Studio, we work directly with clients to set realistic cost estimations and deadlines before work proceeds on a project.
What Does Cel Animation Offer?
Cel-animation videos mainly or entirely rely on hand-drawn frame-by-frame animations, which offer a number of key advantages:
- It allows artists to fully unleash their creativity unimpeded by the limitations of digital tools or techniques.
- It allows for the inclusion of minute details in each frame, which can enrich the storytelling and create a more visually striking video.
- Celluloid animation has a distinctive style that's immediately noticeable and allows marketing ads and awareness campaigns to immediately stand out.
