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Top 5 Animated Video Companies in 2021

Would you like to create a premium animation or explainer video for your business? These top animation service providers can help you bring your idea and vision to life.

The business has much changed under the influence of recent events related to the pandemic, lockdown, economic crisis and social movements that followed all that. Today, entrepreneurs should invent new ways of bringing their offering to the consumer, the more engaging and innovative one. An animated explainer video can serve as one of the most effective methods of presenting your product or service to the audience. You can use them in online marketing on social media, on a landing page, in email marketing campaigns and even as an integral part of user journeys in web and mobile applications.

To bring this excellent marketing practice to reality, you may need the help of an experienced and trusted animated video production service provider. In this article, I'm going to overview the five animated video companies that lead the competition in Poland's market in 2021.

Explain Ninja

Explain Ninja is a Warsaw-based animated explainer video production studio and a daughter company of Fireart Studio, a boutique design and software development house. The company offers a full suite of services, including scriptwriting, illustration, voiceover, animation, sound design and music production. Explain Ninja collaborates with famous composers and voice artists that join the process to deliver the best quality product to the client. The studio's animated commercials and marketing videos have become popular due to their prominent illustration style, professional animation, and voiceover.

Global brands like Atlassian, Codio, Bolt, Zoom Engage and Google have already turned to Explain Ninja to implement their ideas into amazing animated videos for their businesses. Since 2013, the company has served more than 200 clients all over the world, including startups, SMEs, medium-sized companies, and big enterprises.

Studio Pigeon

Studio Pigeon is another leading animation services provider located in Krakow, Poland. The company was founded in 2012, and since then, has provided animation production for hundreds of companies like IKEA, Aviva, UBS, T-Mobile, Saudi Aramco, Nestle, Microsoft, Ideo, and FOX Networks. The studio offers excellent-quality services that embrace the creation of commercial videos, explainer videos and cartoon series. Studio Pigeon specializes in 2D animation, and they are great at it, indeed! The team delivers 2D animated videos for cinema, broadcast, and the web world. A key peculiarity of their animation works is the well-designed and fun characters that make their videos.

ExplainVisually

ExplainVisually is one of the best animated video production companies in Poland. The studio is headquartered in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. ExplainVisually offers nearly the same range of animation services. However, what makes them different is their unique hand-drawn illustrations and a very rich experience of collaboration with global brands like IKEA, Carlsberg, Orange, ING, Pfizer, PepsiCo, NestleHealthScience, Pratt&Whitney, Gedeon Richter, and Credit Agricole.

In particular, they have produced five videos for a kick-off event for IKEA on 3 continents, the Birthday video for a businessman from Forbes' Billionaires list, a pitch video that won 1M$ in Israeli InsurTech startup competition, a marketing video that earned the first 100k€ for a MedTech startup, marketing videos that generated 10X cheaper leads for a cloud company, and videos with HSE procedures for Carlsberg that saved them 70k€ annually. It's an impressive list of cases, isn't it? ExplainVisually definitely deserves to be on this list.

Craftoon

Craftoon is an animation studio based in Poznan'. It's a daughter company of Crafton, the 10-year-old web development agency that was regarded as one of the best software houses in the field of client satisfaction by Milward Brown Institute. Craftoon offers professional video explainers, product animations, and promotional videos for clients worldwide. The company has already created videos for brands such as Microsoft, Martini, Eurovision, Aflofarm, Biz Bank, Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Poland, Archdesk, Photler. They're experts in creating 2D video explainers, 3D animations, and live camera movies. Craftoon also creates tailored video marketing strategies that will help you with completing your business goals.

MU Interactive

MU Interactive is an animated video production company with a headquarter in Warsaw. It is a creative agency with a proven track record of experience in digital marketing and communication strategies. MU Interactive helps companies to establish a unique and strong relationship with the target audience via digital channels. One of their core services is animation production. The company has a prominent team with extensive expertise in 2D and 3D animation production and a vibrant portfolio with innovative and unconventional projects. Their key clients include WWF, PANSA, Orange, Philips, Sony, Sony Interactive Entertainment Polska, Flyps, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, ESL, Wonga, Canon, IBM, and many others.

Conclusion

Animation is a great way to connect with consumers at the emotional level, build their loyalty and earn their trust. An experienced animated video production studio can become a helping hand for businesses that want to implement this marketing practice. These five companies are at the forefront of the animation industry in Poland. They all are great and very professional. I hope that this list will help you find the best service provider and video partner for your business.

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