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Digital Brew

Animation
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Founded
2011
Employees
11-50
Offices
1

About Digital Brew

Digital Brew is an animation and video production studio based in Orlando, Florida. Founded in 2011, it creates animated explainers, commercial films and corporate communications that translate products, services and technical subjects into visual stories. Its work combines creative strategy, animation, live-action production and post-production for clients ranging from mid-market businesses to enterprise organizations.

The studio produces 2D character animation, motion graphics and 3D product and technical animation. Its live-action work includes commercials, documentaries, customer testimonials and corporate brand films. These formats support product launches, software demonstrations, brand campaigns and educational communications, with shorter versions prepared for social media and other distribution channels.

From concept to finished production

Digital Brew provides creative development across the production process, including scriptwriting, storyboarding, visual development and voiceover casting. Its 3D capabilities cover modeling, texturing and lighting, while post-production services include editing, visual effects, color grading, sound design, audio mixing and ADR. The studio can combine these disciplines within a campaign, pairing animated explanations with filmed material and related distribution assets.

Its clients span software and B2B SaaS, healthcare and medical devices, financial services, industrial manufacturing, education, government and mission-driven nonprofits. The portfolio includes work explaining software platforms, dental imaging tools, manufacturing processes and financial products, reflecting a focus on subjects that benefit from clear visual explanation.

Video for evolving discovery channels

During 2025 and 2026, Digital Brew introduced AI Visibility services alongside its production offering. These services address how video content can be structured for discovery through conversational search and answer engines. They extend the studio’s marketing work beyond the finished film to the supporting information used to describe and organize its content.

In February 2024, Digital Brew joined Roger West Creative & Code under holding company Roger & James, Inc. The agencies retained their separate brands and operations while collaborating across video production and digital marketing. A subsequent production partnership with UK studio Blue Juice extended Digital Brew’s ability to support projects across North America and Europe.

More about Digital Brew

Founders and leadership

  • Filmmaker Michael Cardwell founded the business in a spare bedroom. He is a Full Sail University Hall of Fame inductee.
  • Following the 2024 holding-company formation, Cardwell became President of Roger & James, Inc., with Roger West founder Michael Westafer serving as its CEO.
  • Animation Director Beau Benson is identified among the studio’s early creative hires.

Production approach

The studio describes its team as marketing strategists first and animators second. Its production workflow begins by examining customer friction points through a creative discovery brief, then develops two-column scripts, mood boards, custom style frames and directed voiceover before animation.

Its AI Visibility offering combines category audits and buyer-question mapping with answer-first scripts, captions, transcripts, chaptering and schema markup intended to help answer engines interpret and cite video content.

Recognition

The report credits Digital Brew with more than 22 Regional Emmy Awards from the NATAS Suncoast Chapter, more than two dozen Telly and ADDY awards, and an appearance on the Inc. 5000 list.

Reciprocal production support

The Blue Juice partnership, announced in August 2026, provides Digital Brew clients with UK soundstages, equipment hire and local crews. Digital Brew reciprocates with US animation, motion design and domestic production support for Blue Juice clients.

Notable credits

11 credits
  • Cisco Systems — Cisco Networking — Delivering the Goods
  • Cisco Systems — Cisco AI PODS
  • HubSpot — CMS Hub Starter animated explainer
  • Dexis — DTX Studio Clinic 3D dental animation
  • Lightcast — It Starts With Lightcast
  • The Exit Group — investor-readiness explainer
  • Addition Financial — We See The Real You
  • Seal Methods Inc. — 3D technical explainer
  • Oculogica — concussion diagnosis device demonstration
  • University of Houston — Latino cARTographies
  • Unitus Community Credit Union — Unitus Rewards

Offices

Where Digital Brew is based

1 location
  • Orlando office

    Headquarters
    111 N. Magnolia Avenue, Suite 1300, Orlando, FL 32801, USAOrlando, Florida, United States
    About this office

    Overall headquarters and main production studio, housing executive offices, animation, live-action production, sound design, client strategy and post-production.

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