Cake Studios
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2010
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 2
About Cake Studios
Cake Studios is an independent American motion graphics, animation, and broadcast branding studio based in California. Founded in Burbank in 2010 and now headquartered in Westlake Village, it develops visual identities and animated content for sports broadcasting, television entertainment, and stadium audiences. Its work combines creative direction, design, animation, and technical implementation for graphics that appear both on television and across large venue displays.
Live sports is a central part of the studio’s portfolio. Cake creates televised show opens, broadcast graphics packages, live insert graphics, and toolkits for networks and sports organisations. Projects include MLS on FOX, Big Ten Network’s B1G Network Tailgate and B1G Today, UFC Main Event, CBS Sports’ Super Bowl XLVII coverage, and graphics packages for NFL Network. These assignments span programme branding, animated introductions, and graphics systems used during live coverage.
The studio also produces large-format content for stadiums and arenas, including multi-screen animations and display packages. Its venue work includes projects for the Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Lakers, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Chargers, Houston Texans, Detroit Red Wings, and Philadelphia Flyers. This practice extends its broadcast design capabilities into in-person entertainment, where animated visuals appear on Jumbotrons, LED screens, and other venue displays.
Beyond sports, Cake has designed show opens and graphics for established entertainment programmes including The Price Is Right, Wheel of Fortune, and Entertainment Tonight. Its portfolio also includes parody broadcast animations for Comedy Central’s Key & Peele’s Super Bowl Special and a 3D character and broadcast introduction for DirecTV’s Fantasy Zone.
Across these projects, Cake offers full-service creative production, 2D and 3D motion design, visual effects, and compositing. Its broadcast work includes real-time graphics design and integration, connecting the visual package with the systems used to present it during live programming. Commercial image campaigns and title sequences form additional parts of its practice.
More about Cake Studios
Leadership and working model
- Co-founders Jim Steinhaus and Mannix Esqueda serve as Executive Producer and Creative Director, respectively. They worked together in broadcast production for more than a decade before establishing the studio.
- The report describes a boutique core team of creative directors, producers, and designers supported by a specialised network of motion animators and technical collaborators.
Production tools and integration
- The production pipeline centres on Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Creative Cloud, alongside Ross XPression, Chyron, and Vizrt for real-time broadcast graphics.
- Engineering collaborations with integrators such as Ross Video’s Rocket Surgery connect broadcast toolkits with clients’ broadcast trucks and stadium control rooms.
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Current and former locations of Cake Studios
- 30961 Agoura Road, Suite 203, Westlake Village, CA 91361Westlake Village, California, United States
Westlake Village office
HeadquartersOperating studio headquarters and executive office.
- 468 Pennsfield Place, Suite 202, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360Thousand Oaks, California, United States
Thousand Oaks office
About this office
Secondary or registered corporate office listing, described in the report as prior or alternate Conejo Valley premises. No closure is established.
- 110 West Providencia Ave., Suite 100, Burbank, CA 91502Burbank, California, United States
Burbank office
Former officeOpened 2010
Historical founding studio, operating from 2010 until approximately 2018 before relocation to the Conejo Valley.
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