Digital Twigs
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2012
- Employees
- 1-10
- Offices
- 1
About Digital Twigs
Digital Twigs is an independent boutique animation and creative production studio based in Downtown Los Angeles. Founded in 2012, it creates commercial, broadcast, music and digital entertainment work through a hands-on approach that combines physical production with digital animation and post-production.
The studio’s mixed-media work brings together stop-motion, miniature sets, paper craft, puppetry and live-action cinematography with 2D and 3D motion design, procedural animation and visual effects. Its productions emphasize tactile materials and textured environments, using handmade elements alongside digital techniques to develop characters, visual worlds and animated storytelling.
From concepts to finished productions
Digital Twigs provides concept development, storyboarding and art direction, followed by fabrication, animation, directing, compositing and post-production. Its capabilities encompass puppet and prop construction, miniature production design, character animation, title sequences, logo animation and broadcast packaging. This combination supports projects ranging from short branded films and explainers to show identities, music videos and concert visuals.
The studio has produced title sequence animation for Rhett & Link’s Good Mythical Morning, including Seasons 6, 9, 12 and 18, alongside animation and motion design for The Mythical Show. Its entertainment work also includes puppet and stop-motion contributions to Neil’s Puppet Dreams and animated packaging for Riot Games’ All Chat.
Commercial and platform projects include Quibi’s Best Practices instructional animation series, Farmers Insurance’s Hall of Claims and Cause and Effect campaigns, origami character animation for Nick Jr., and Snapchat’s Word of the Day and Looking Up. For Baozou, the studio developed show openings and network branding across several programmes.
Its music-related work includes Mars Argo’s Using You, a collaboration with Poppy on Let’s Make a Video, and tour visuals for Odesza. Digital Twigs has also created animated advocacy campaigns for Liberty in North Korea and the Global Poverty Project, extending its storytelling work into human-rights and public-interest communications.
More about Digital Twigs
Leadership
- Ryan Wehner and Mike Pasley are co-founders and creative directors.
- Mark Cramer is executive producer and joined after the studio was established.
Production model
The research describes a boutique core team supplemented by project-based freelance animators, fabricators and production crew. Its flexible operating model allows the directors to assemble multidisciplinary collaborations for global clients.
Origins
Before establishing the studio, Wehner worked in commercial motion design and freelance production. The business grew from his ambition to create a dedicated, hands-on production house.
Creative collaboration
The Farmers Insurance campaign animations were produced in collaboration with advertising agency RPA.
Notable credits
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Where Digital Twigs is based
- Los Angeles, California, United States
Los Angeles office
HeadquartersPrimary creative studio, workshop and overall company headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles.
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