Pixeldust Studios
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2004
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 5
About Pixeldust Studios
Pixeldust Studios is a digital animation, video production, and interactive media studio founded in 2004 in the Greater Washington, D.C. area. Its work spans television, commercial communications, scientific visualization, cultural installations, and immersive digital experiences. From its origins as a boutique broadcast animation group, the company has developed a multidisciplinary practice serving television networks, government agencies, businesses, museums, and nonprofit organizations.
The studio combines animation and design with live-action production and software development. Its animation work includes 2D and 3D character animation, motion graphics, broadcast graphics packages, title sequences, visual effects compositing, and medical and scientific imagery. Video production encompasses commercials, documentaries, explainers, corporate communications, training, public service announcements, and social impact content, with sound design among its supporting services.
Broadcast and scientific storytelling
Pixeldust creates imagery that explains subjects ranging from engineering and natural history to medicine and historical events. Its documentary contributions include animated sequences, scientific visualizations, tactical maps, and reconstructions. Broadcast assignments also encompass show branding, opening graphics, and complete graphics packages. The supplied research identifies work for networks including Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS, and MSNBC, alongside projects for institutions such as the Smithsonian and NASA.
Interactive and location-based experiences
Beyond linear screen production, Pixeldust develops augmented and virtual reality applications, mobile apps, games, interactive museum exhibits, and location-based experiences. Its software services include responsive websites, e-learning, and interface and user experience design. Civic installations extend this practice into physical environments through architectural lighting, interactive fountains, and mobile augmented reality experiences.
The company's production footprint connects the Washington metropolitan area with New York, Madrid, and Monterrey. These branches support broadcast and advertising clients, European production, and civic and interactive projects in Mexico. Across these activities, Pixeldust brings visual production and interactive development together for projects experienced on screens, through immersive devices, and within public and cultural spaces.
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Leadership and business structure
- Founders Ricardo Andrade and Elizabeth Andrade serve as President & Creative Director and Executive Vice President, respectively.
- The company is described as a minority- and woman-co-owned small business.
Technology and production methods
- Pixeldust Labs is the studio's internal game development, XR and emerging technologies R&D division, spearheaded by CG Supervisor Samar Shool and Game Developer Roland Womack.
- The research identifies Unity and Unreal among its interactive development tools. Its Leidos virtual walkthrough used Unity C# for Meta Quest 2.
- For a Smithsonian paleontological publication, the studio reconstructed an Isthminia panamensis fossil from CT data as a sub-millimeter-accuracy 3D surface model for open-access research.
Recognition
- The report attributes 17 Emmy Awards, 43 Emmy nominations, 55 American Advertising Federation Best of Show & Judges Awards, and 13 Telly Awards to Pixeldust Studios over its operating history.
- The Boys Town PSA Back to Normal, produced with August Lang & Husak, won two 2022 Emmy Awards in the Public Service Announcement and Graphic Arts categories.
Notable credits
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Where Pixeldust Studios is based
- Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Bethesda offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Washington D.C. Area — Headquarters / Main Studio** Status: active Headquarters Address: 4720 Montgomery Ln, Suite 440, Bethesda, MD 20814, United States Phone: +1 301-656-0050 / +1 301-661-5450 Global corporate headquarters and main studio for executive management, animation and production. Publicly listed under Washington D.C.; relocated from 4350 East West Hwy, Suite 350, Bethesda. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 4350 East West Hwy, Suite 350, Bethesda, MD 20814 Former headquarters premises, superseded by 4720 Montgomery Ln, Suite 440. The report does not establish an exact closure year.
- Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Monterrey office
Latin American studio branch and production base supporting civic, municipal and interactive architectural installations across Mexico.
- Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Pixeldust Europe
About this office
European production branch managed by Rico Andrade, handling cinematography, directing, editing and European client accounts through hybrid/coworking studio operations.
- New York, United States
New York offices
About this office
**Office** Status: active Current studio branch supporting broadcast networks, advertising agencies and media clients. A current street address is not supplied. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 584 Broadway, Suite 612, New York, NY 10012 Historical Manhattan studio facility. The New York branch remains current, but the report supplies this address only as historical.
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Washington office
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