Lex and Otis Studios

Lex and Otis Studios is an American animation studio and production company founded in 2018 by director, storyboard artist and producer Jay Oliva. Based in Glendale, California, the studio develops and produces animation for television, streaming, feature films and video games. Its work emphasizes adult-oriented storytelling, supernatural and fantasy worlds, superhero action and adaptations of established intellectual property.

The studio provides services across development, pre-production, animation production and editorial. Early development work includes scriptwriting, concept art, visual development, character and prop design, environment layouts, storyboards and animatics. Production capabilities encompass hand-drawn 2D animation, computer-generated 3D animation, asset rigging and real-time rendering. Editorial services include animatic editing, footage assembly and creative post-production support. This range allows the company to contribute from an initial adaptation pitch through animation and editorial assembly.

Animation and adaptations

Its television work includes Trese, the 2021 Netflix supernatural series adapted from the Filipino comic, and Ark: The Animated Series, produced for Paramount+. The studio also contributed to Twilight of the Gods and the animated spin-off project Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas through collaborations with Zack Snyder’s The Stone Quarry. Its contribution to the 2022 Teen Titans Go! episode “365!” included the “Snyder Cut” action sequence.

Game-related work includes cinematics for Riot Games’ Valorant and RAID: Call of the Arbiter, the animated limited series based on Plarium’s mobile game. These projects sit alongside the studio’s broader work adapting stories from novels, comic books, graphic novels and tabletop games.

Alongside commissioned production, Lex and Otis develops original intellectual property and literary adaptations. Its reported development slate includes Citizen of the Galaxy, based on Robert A. Heinlein’s science-fiction novel; Cradle: Unsouled, adapted from Will Wight’s fantasy books; and INFINITY: Paradise Lost, based on Corvus Belli’s tabletop property. These development projects extend the studio’s focus on translating established fictional worlds into animated storytelling.