StudioNova

The productivity tool for animators.

Seed round Raising $1MSeptember 2026
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1,000+
credit cards on file.
$250K
raised to date

StudioNova partners

NVIDIAInception Program
Microsoftfor Startups
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A 30-minute animation is

0
drawings.
Every frame drawn, 25 frames a second45,000
Industry standard, one drawing held for two frames22,500
StudioNova, one drawing per 12-second shot150

Every drawing is paid for in hours. Studios quote $20K to $60K per finished minute.

An animator at a light table surrounded by stacks of drawings
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Draw the key moments. StudioNova animates the rest.

The StudioNova editor
Create from text, an image, or audio
12-second AI shots on a timeline
Export the finished film
Animated creator at a desk, from the StudioNova ad campaign
Image to videoText to videoAI voicesLip syncVoice cloneTimeline editor
150 drawings instead of 22,500

Live today at studionova.ai/signup

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Cursor for animation.

Cursor put AI inside the place developers already work. StudioNova puts AI inside the place animators work.

StudioNova
Who uses it
Software developers
Animators
What they work with
Code and project files
Shots, media, and a timeline
What the AI does
Writes and revises code
Generates and revises animated shots
What comes out
Working software
A finished animation

SpaceX acquired Cursor for $60B in June 2026. Cursor is built on VS Code. Source: Forbes, June 16, 2026

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Independent animators and small studios.

An animated short
A series episode
A client deliverable

Every project needs new shots. That is why they come back.

Illustrative stills

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The incumbent just stopped shipping.

Adobe Animate, maintenance mode since March 1, 2026
“We will continue to support the application and provide ongoing security and bug fixes, but we don’t plan to add new features.”

Adobe stopped selling Animate on March 1, 2026. Support for most users ends March 1, 2027.

helpx.adobe.com/animate/kb/maintenance-mode.html

18 months

AI video generation reached usable quality for finished work in the last 18 months.

$3.5B

2D animation software in 2025, growing about 10% a year.

Verified Market Reports, Precedence Research

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Two markets. We are in one, and coming for the other.

2D animation where we compete today

Adobe Animate
Toon Boom Harmony
Runway
LTX Studio
StudioNova web app

Generation and editing in one timeline. $35 a month.

LIVE

3D animation where we go next

Blender
Autodesk Maya
Cinema 4D
StudioNova 3D

Blender with StudioNova AI at the center.

2027

VS Code is free. Cursor put AI inside it and is worth $60B. Blender is free. We put AI inside it.

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A subscription for recurring creative work.

Pro

30-day free trial, cancel anytime.
$28 a month billed yearly.

$35/month
Enterprise

Teams and studios

Custom
$3.5B to $3.9B

2D animation software market in 2025, growing about 10% a year.

$4.2M

Annual revenue for every 10,000 Pro subscribers at $35 a month.

Market size: Verified Market Reports, Precedence Research, 2025.

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How we got 1,000+ and how we get 10,000.

Sign upstudionova.ai
First animationin the editor
30-day trialcard on file
Paid$35 a month
Next projectthey come back

Today

Social media and Google search brought in every account so far, with no paid marketing budget.

With this round

  • Scale what already works: social and Google
  • Paid campaigns with tracked cost per paying creator
  • Tutorials that recreate real videos, prompt by prompt
  • Creator partnerships in the animation community
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What $250K built. What $1M builds.

Web app A frame from the StudioNova ad campaign
Concept of StudioNova 3DCONCEPT
2025

Raised $250K

March 2026

Web app released. Adobe Animate enters maintenance mode the same month.

September 2026

Mobile app released

Close $1M

Month 0

Months 0 to 6

Marketing starts. Build StudioNova 3D, a Blender fork with StudioNova AI at the center.

Month 6

StudioNova 3D first release

Projects, assets, and generation run in the StudioNova cloud. The desktop app is the on-ramp. The AI models underneath are swappable.

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Why us.

Nnamdi Adom
Nnamdi Adom
Founder

Senior Deep Learning Engineer at NBCUniversal.

Four years as a Deep Learning Engineer at Amazon Lab126.

Carnegie Mellon University
NBCUniversal
Amazon Lab126
Marios Savvides
Marios Savvides
Advisor

Director, Carnegie Mellon Computer Engineering.

Bossa Nova Robotics Professor of Artificial Intelligence.

Carnegie Mellon University
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Thank you.

Raising $1M.

Reach out to nnamdi@studionova.ai for more info.

Try StudioNova free for 30 days at studionova.ai

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