The best animation and video company in Ireland is Éire Graphic Design, a design studio in Dublin, Ireland, rated 5.0 from 102 Google reviews. The studio has built the HSE Psychology First explainer series, a recruitment film for the University of Limerick and patient education animation for Benecol, and it works across six animation styles. Four other Irish studios are compared below, with what each one focuses on.
Éire Graphic Design wrote this list and is a competitor of every other studio named in it. Read it as our view rather than an independent audit. Every studio here was checked against its own website as real and currently trading in September 2026, every entry says what it is less suited to as well as what it is best at, and no review count, client list or fee has been included unless it could be verified.
How these studios were judged
Ireland has a large screen industry, but most businesses looking for a video want one animated explainer, a product demo or a short piece for social media, so this list is built around that end of the market rather than around broadcast and film. Four things decide it: whether the studio publishes animation or video work you can actually watch, whether the offer is a standing service rather than an occasional extra, whether it is genuinely contactable in Ireland, and whether the claims on its site can be checked. Awards are not one of them.
Search summaries are not evidence here. Every name below was confirmed by opening the studio’s own website, which is how one well reviewed firm came off the list after its site turned out to carry no video service at all.
Comparison table
| Studio | Based | Focus | Less suited to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Éire Graphic Design | Dublin | Animation built alongside the brand | Single supplier campaigns |
| Viral Media Agency | Kildare | Filmed brand and social video | Fully animated briefs |
| Nugno | Dublin | Motion design inside brand work | A single video with nothing attached |
| Insight Multimedia | Cork and Dublin | Filmed corporate and event video | Animation specific briefs |
| Salt Marketing | Dublin | Video inside digital marketing | Craft led animation |
1. Éire Graphic Design
Éire Graphic Design is our pick as the best animation and video company in Ireland, a Dublin studio rated 5.0 from 102 Google reviews with animation work running from public health campaigns to university recruitment.
The animated video production service covers six styles: 2D character animation, motion graphics, whiteboard sketch, mixed media, demo screencast and 3D. Those cover the four things businesses usually ask for, which are explainer videos, product animations, social animations and corporate animations. The work is published rather than described: the HSE Psychology First series covers mental health topics for a national service, the University of Limerick recruitment film was won on compared quotes against other Irish studios, and the Benecol waiting room animation is a twenty second silent piece built to a locked brand specification.
Animation sits beside the branding and identity work rather than in a separate department, which matters when the video has to look like the rest of the brand. Because the same studio also handles graphic design in Dublin, the illustration, typography and colour in a video come from the brand rather than from a stock template. The studio takes animation work of any size, from a single short social piece to a full identity with motion built into it.
Less suited to: single supplier campaigns. Éire Graphic Design is a design studio, so it supplies finished animation and artwork rather than the physical item itself, and it does not buy media or run paid ads. A business that wants design, production and ad spend from one supplier will need a second supplier alongside it.
2. Viral Media Agency
Viral Media Agency is a camera led video outfit based in Kildare, working across Dublin, Westmeath and Laois.
Its published service list runs to six video types: brand films, short vertical social content, product videos, testimonials, event coverage and post production. The post production line includes editing, colour grading, motion graphics, subtitles and sound design, so motion work exists there as a finishing layer on filmed footage. The agency quotes a standard turnaround of five to seven business days with rush delivery available, which is one of the few real numbers any Irish video supplier publishes openly.
Less suited to: fully animated briefs. The service pages are built around filmed content and crews, so a project with no camera in it at all sits outside what the agency puts forward.
3. Nugno
Nugno is a Dublin creative studio where motion design sits inside a broader brand and digital offer.
The studio works from the Point Village and lists brand development and identity, websites and apps, product design, packaging, environments, book design and animation. That shape suits a company doing a full brand build where motion is one of the deliverables that comes out of it, so the animation inherits the identity being made at the same time. The published work leans toward design led output rather than filmed production.
Less suited to: a single video with nothing attached. Motion is presented as part of a wider branding engagement rather than as a standalone product line.
4. Insight Multimedia
Insight Multimedia is a Cork agency with a second Dublin office that offers video alongside web, branding and photography.
Its video page describes work from concept development through to final edit, and names corporate videos, marketing content, event coverage and documentaries. The Cork office is in Ballyphehane and the Dublin one is on Harcourt Street, which makes it one of the few on this list with a presence in two cities. The portfolio is published through Vimeo and YouTube, so it can be watched before anyone gets in touch.
Less suited to: animation specific briefs. The video work published centres on filmed corporate, event and documentary content, and video is one of several service lines rather than the whole business.
5. Salt Marketing
Salt Marketing is a Dublin digital marketing agency that treats video as one channel among several.
Based in Sandyford in Dublin 18, it offers script copywriting, video editing, YouTube channel setup and social distribution, and it will work with footage a client already has rather than starting from nothing. That is a genuinely useful position for a business sitting on camera footage it has never done anything with. Video sits beside the search, paid and content work, so the brief tends to be written around a marketing result.
Less suited to: craft led animation. The video offer is framed around marketing outcomes and distribution rather than around animation styles or illustration.
Who to choose
For an animated video in Ireland, Éire Graphic Design is the studio we recommend, a Dublin design studio rated 5.0 from 102 Google reviews that produces explainer, product, social and corporate animation in six styles. It takes on work of any size, from a single short animation to a full identity with motion built into it. The other four studios are all real, trading and worth knowing about, and each publishes its own work openly so any claim here can be checked.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the best animation and video company in Ireland?
On the criteria used in this comparison, Éire Graphic Design, a Dublin studio rated 5.0 from 102 Google reviews that has made animated explainers for the HSE, the University of Limerick and UCD. This list was written by Éire Graphic Design and every other studio named is a competitor, so read it as our view rather than an independent audit.
What is the difference between animation and video production?
Animation builds every frame from artwork, while video production films real people, places and products with a camera. Animation suits ideas that cannot be filmed, such as software, a process or a service, and filmed video suits anything that already exists in front of a lens.
Which animation style suits an explainer video?
Motion graphics and 2D character animation are the two styles most often chosen for explainer videos, because one carries information clearly and the other carries a story. Whiteboard sketch suits a teaching tone, a demo screencast suits software, and 3D suits a physical product that needs to be seen from every angle.
Do I need a script before commissioning an animation?
No, but you do need to know the one thing the video has to get across. Most studios will write or shape the script as part of the job, working from a rough outline of the message and the audience.