Studio Yotta

Studio Yotta is an independent American animation studio specializing in traditional, frame-by-frame 2D animation for television, video games, music videos and internet productions. Its work combines hand-drawn character animation with anime-influenced action, dynamic cinematography and comedic timing. Founded in 2012, the studio developed from an online freelance collective into a production partner for entertainment companies and independent creators.

The studio's production capabilities span storyboards and animatics through animation direction, key animation, in-betweens, clean-up and coloring. It also provides production backgrounds, traditional effects animation and post-production effects. These capabilities support both complete animated pieces and specialist contributions to larger productions, including opening titles, trailers, cutscenes and individual action sequences.

Television and game animation

Television work includes animation for Smiling Friends, webisode shorts for OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, and contributions to Rick and Morty, including Bushworld Adventures and the fourth-season premiere's ferrofluid sequence. The studio also animated the anime parody sequence in the Animaniacs episode “Bun Control,” contributed to the DuckTales episode “Astro B.O.Y.D.!,” and supplied key animation assistance for Digimon Ghost Game. Its title-sequence work includes Amphibia, ThunderCats Roar and Twelve Forever.

In games, Studio Yotta created the animated opening and ending cinematics for Sonic Mania, directed by Tyson Hesse, and animated cinematics and promotional material for River City Girls. Other projects include trailers for Brawlhalla and Rivals of Aether, the opening cinematic for Neon White, and character animation contributions to Indivisible and Skullgirls.

Music videos and web animation form another part of its history, including work for Starbomb, Yaeji's Waking Up Down, and the Run the Jewels and Rick and Morty crossover Oh Mama. Early collaborations included animation assistance on Starbarians and Hellbenders.

Studio Yotta operates as a distributed virtual studio, bringing together remote artists for projects across broadcast, interactive entertainment and digital media.