Hero4Hire Creative
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2009
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About Hero4Hire Creative
Hero4Hire Creative is an independent animation, motion design, and creative production studio based in Greater Boston. Its work spans character-driven entertainment, commercial campaigns, broadcast graphics, and experiential content, combining 2D and 3D animation with mixed-media production.
Founded in 2009 to produce and animate Fizzy's Lunch Lab for PBS KIDS Go!, the studio subsequently expanded into advertising, branded storytelling, and visual content for broadcasters and corporate clients. Its production capabilities extend from early concepts and scripts through finished animation, editorial, and sound.
Animation and production
The studio develops characters, visual styles, storyboards, and animatics, then produces hand-drawn and digital 2D animation, CG character modeling and animation, compositing, and visual effects. Projects can also incorporate real-time digital puppetry and mixed-media techniques. Audio services include voiceover casting and recording, music scoring, sound design, and final mixing.
Beyond conventional screen formats, Hero4Hire creates custom content for museums, trade shows, events, and interactive digital venues. Its broadcast work includes sports packaging and motion graphics, while its commercial output includes explainer videos and campaigns for consumer, financial, healthcare, and technology clients.
Selected work and development
The studio's portfolio includes Arthur digital shorts, Storybooth, the Boston Red Sox television special Wally's Opening Day, and animation for Sesame Workshop's digital properties. Commercial projects include Hasbro's Monopoly Discover, Sallie Mae's HACKED series, and campaigns for brands including PayPal, Wayfair, and Bose. Its CBS Sports work encompasses graphics for NFL and FIFA World Cup programming.
In July 2023, the founders spun off the original-content business into Pretty Amazing, a separate company focused on developing, producing, and distributing family entertainment intellectual property. That separation includes the revival and rights management of Fizzy's Lunch Lab, while Hero4Hire continues to focus on client-service animation and motion design.
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Leadership
Evan Sussman and Allison Dressler Kramer lead the studio as co-CEOs, with Steve Young identified as creative director. Kramer joined as an equity partner after earlier work at Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and truTV.
Distributed production
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the studio adopted a company-described “work-from-anywhere” model, collaborating with animators, designers, and directors across North America while keeping core leadership and business operations in Greater Boston.
Recognition
- Fizzy's Lunch Lab received three Daytime Emmy Award nominations.
- Storybooth is identified as a Webby Award-winning series, and Wally's Opening Day as an Emmy Award-winning television special.
- The HACKED financial literacy series received a Shorty Award and generated more than 12.9 million organic views, according to the supplied research.
Notable credits
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Where Hero4Hire Creative is based
- 621 Main Street, Suite 9B, Waltham, MA 02452, USAWaltham, Massachusetts, United States
Waltham office
HeadquartersPhysical studio headquarters and primary base of operations in Greater Boston, supporting a distributed production model.
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