Built by creatives,
for creatives.
Our Story
We built Estime to be the studio we needed.
Where the work gets the attention it deserves and so do the people making it.
We started Estime in 2019 after years inside companies that cared more about delivery than craft. The irony was hard to miss: the creative work was often what those businesses ran on, and it was still the first thing to get rushed. The freelancers we brought in as the studio grew told the same story. Most also held full-time or part-time jobs elsewhere, with tight deadlines, too many projects at once and no time to think before the work was due.
We wanted the opposite. Not just work we're proud of at the end, but a process that feels good while we're in it: room to try ideas before locking one in, and collaborators who enjoy the making as much as the finished piece. That's what we protect.
What We Believe
Better work comes from healthier creatives.
Healthy, to us, isn't a perk. It's how a project runs.
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Every project starts with room to explore approaches before an idea is locked in.
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The people doing the work sign off on the project lift before a quote ever goes out to the client.
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Creatives are brought in early alongside the people making the decisions, not handed a brief at the end.
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We typically price by the work, not the hour. So nobody's watching the clock.
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Every creative is credited by name on the public work we show.
Our Team
We’re a small studio hell-bent on community.
Building a trusted and active circle of talented creatives with room for more.
Estime runs on a small core team and a wider circle of animators, designers and editors we come back to again and again. The core team leads creative direction and production from scoping onward, then brings in the right specialists for each project. Clients get a full creative team from concept to final file without building one in-house, and each creative gets to focus on the part of the work they do best.
We've been at this a while. Most of our creatives bring more than a decade of experience from a wide range of industries, including award winners and people who've taught at the university level.