Explainer Animations for Marketing Directors Tired Of…
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Babysitting Freelancers
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Animation Agencies that eat up your budget
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Endless status calls and red tape
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Projects that take months instead of weeks
Companies I've partnered with
What do I do?
I create explainer animations for marketing and creative teams by working directly with clients to deliver clear messaging without agency overhead.
Hi, I’m Mike Doyle, a freelance animator based in Raleigh, NC and the guy behind drive80.
drive80 is a small animation studio focused on creating explainer animations for marketing and creative teams. I work directly with agencies and in-house teams that need clear messaging, fast turnaround, and a reliable animator without agency overhead.
Since 2011, I’ve created 500+ explainer animations used across homepages, sales decks, product launches, onboarding, and internal training. The work is designed to explain what a product or service does quickly, clearly, and in a way people actually remember.
With drive80, you work directly with the animator making your project. There are no layers of project managers, no junior animators learning on your timeline, and no surprise fees or confusing production steps.
You get clean files, predictable timelines, and straightforward collaboration so projects move faster and approvals stay simple.
Need an explainer animation that actually explains what your client does?
Let’s make it happen.
Why Agencies Partner with Me
White-Label Friendly. Deadline Obsessed. Easy to Work With.
Creative Directors bring me in when they need a trusted partner to execute — not another vendor to manage.
You pitch it. I bring it to life. No fluff. No lag. Just clean, compelling animation that makes your team look good.
Watch My Reel
Client Love
100+ 5-Star Google Reviews
Jay Zawislak of Second Melody
Benay Hicks of Book Harvest
Dan Graham of SM2 DEV
We at StoryCorps' had a problem: We had a great initiative to pair people from opposite political sides to just talk, not argue. But we were struggling to figure out the right quick way to convey how the experience worked and the right positive vibe and walls of copy were killing our users. Drive80 helped us get all of this into a series of fantastic explainer videos. Mike worked with us to really understand the process, cut out the fluff and make sure that the feel was right for our existing brand. We were on a tight schedule and even had a couple of unexpected rounds of re-dos but Mike was responsive and patient and really seemed invested in getting it right. Other teams who saw the video responded with a "ooh, didn't know we could do that!" so hopefully we'll be working more in the near future.