Company Profiles

Metro Orlando is home to a growing digital media cluster encompassing 1,000 companies involved in bringing advanced digital technology together with creative production techniques. The resulting content can be used anywhere from the classroom to amusement parks. Below are overviews of a sampling of digital media companies operating in Metro Orlando.

360Ed
360Ed was founded in 2006 by video game industry veterans with the specific mission of bringing commercial game industry practices (video transfers, gaming and film technologies, and design) into the education, medical and military learning environments.  360Ed aims to combine the best of entertainment and education.

Blue Orb, Inc.
Founded in 1997, Blue Orb, Inc. is a high tech company located in Winter Park that specializes in the research, production, distribution, and licensing of advanced input systems for gaming, computing, and communications devices. The Company’s mission is to create and bring to market innovative products that enhance the gaming experience. Blue Orb products fulfill the text messaging needs of the online gamer and seamlessly integrate gaming and messaging.

Digimation
Digimation is a leader in the 3D industry, providing the definitive source of quality 3D digital content, creative services, and software solutions to the entertainment and defense industries. As one of the world's leading providers of 3D content, Digimation develops and markets high-quality, technically accurate, 3D models that operate within virtually all 3D software applications.

Digitec Productions

Digitec offers full-service media production providing interactive services, film, video and audio production and post production. The company specializes in:

Dream Balloon Productions
Dream Balloon Productions is devoted to producing high-quality family entertainment through the use of computer-generated (CG) animation. With award-winning creative talent and technological capabilities, their goal is to produce family animation films that deliver great stories, breathtaking visual imagery and a likeability that appeals to both children and adults.

ECS
ECS is a leading provider of educational games and simulation, interactive performance assessment tools, mobile learning environments and enterprise-wide information management systems. Their engineering team brings together an experienced group of professionals that value innovation and creativity while focusing on customer's needs.  ECS was incorporated in 1997 to provide advanced learning technologies, multi-disciplinary engineering and IT services, and project management support services for the government and commercial sectors.

Electronic Arts (EA)
EA is the world’s leading independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for personal computers and advanced entertainment systems.  EA continues to innovate and improve interactive gaming. Combining diverse media such as video, photographic images, motion capture, 3D face and body rendering technologies, computer graphics, and stereo sound with contributions from storywriters, film directors and musicians, EA uses technology and creativity to create mainstream entertainment through an interactive medium.  Since its inception, EA has garnered more than 700 awards for outstanding software in the U.S. and Europe. The company has operated a development studio (EA Tiburon) in Metro Orlando since 1995 and has developed the following EA Sports game series:

Tiburon also developed its first non-sports title, Superman Returns™: The Videogame.

Helios Interactive

Helios Interactive is a full-service game development studio and a 3D software technology company that conceives, develops and produces games for any platform whether it be PC-, Mac-, mobile- or console-based. Helios specializes in the following areas of 3D Interactive Entertainment:

Helios has partnered with some of the most innovative educational providers in the world to help develop the next generation of artists, programmers, and game developers.

House of Moves
House of Moves is a nationally-recognized company (headquartered in L.A.) that designs and equips the only professional motion capture studio on the East Coast with fully integrated film, video and audio facilities. House of Moves, which is co-located with UCF's Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA), serves as the cornerstone for Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer’s Creative Village in downtown Orlando. The company works closely with FIEA students, further strengthening the real world education provided at that graduate level UCF academy.

ideas
ideas is a creative content studio that produces entertainment, learning and marketing content for media and immersive platforms. Not locked into any specific delivery system, IDEAS drives the power of a creative story across every platform that can reach a specific audience, including Web, CD-ROM, DVD, film, video and live environments.   

Indra Systems, Inc.
Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, with a worldwide employee base of over 5,000, Indra Systems opened its first U.S. office in Metro Orlando in 2002 to boost its presence in this market. The company specializes in three main lines of business: Information Technologies, Simulation and Automatic Maintenance Systems and Defense Electronic Equipment. The U.S. Navy awarded the Orlando office with a contract worth more than $12 million to develop a complete mission simulator for the Marines' AV-8B Harrier vertical takeoff aircraft.

Instruxo LLC
Instruxo is an Orlando-based digital media company that helps U.S. firms break into new global markets. It helps companies communicate across countries by telling stories that are a language-and-cultural transformation of their message for new customers. Its services are available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic and other languages. Instruxo creates videos that play on small cell-phone screens to giant screens at global tradeshows. It designs applications that promote products on iPads, iPhones and other cell phones. It translates websites, blogs, social media and sales information into the native language that global customers understand.

IZEA
Founded in 2006, Orlando-headquarted IZEA connects advertisers with social media publishers, helping them monetize their social media presence. The company has completed over two million social media sponsorships for customers ranging from small local businesses to Fortune 50 organizations.

Lightmaker
Lightmaker is a multi-disciplinary digital agency with experience in creating and managing digital strategies and destinations. With offices in four countries, Lightmaker's U.S. headquarters is located in Orlando, FL.

Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin, one of the largest single employers in Metro Orlando, is a customer-focused, global enterprise principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, and integration of advanced technology systems, products, and services for government and commercial customers. Lockheed Martin's Central Florida business units are ranked fourth among the Top 100 Companies for Working Families. Lockheed Martin Simulation, Training & Support is the corporation's Simulation and Training Center of Excellence and leads the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter training program.

n-Space, Inc.
Based in Orlando, n-Space, Inc. is Florida’s largest digital media headquartered company. n-Space designs and develops innovative and technically-sophisticated video games for multiple platforms, including Nintendo Wii and DS, Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 2 and PSP. Founded in 1994, n-Space develops both original properties, as well as games based on popular franchises such as Star Wars, Toy Story, Call of Duty, Duke Nukem, Danger Girl, Rugrats, and Die Hard. 

NBC Universal
A world leader in media and communications, NBC Universal operates in all businesses that are key to the digital communications of tomorrow. Universal Orlando Resort, a division of NBC Universal, has multiple ties to Metro Orlando’s digital media industry. From the world’s most sophisticated theme park rides and immersive entertainment to studio backlots and complete production and post production services, Universal Orlando Resort brings unique entertainment experiences to millions of people around the world.

Premise Entertainment
Premise Entertainment is a premier media-based production company specializing in storytelling and character development for animation and live action productions. Premise maintains a focus on quality character-driven content, from development and story concept all the way through production to final compositing, editorial and post. Made up of industry professionals, former Walt Disney Feature Animation colleagues and live action film veterans, Premise is an originator of creative content as well as a support and co-production studio for film, television, publishing and web-based media.

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
SAIC is the world's largest, employee-owned research and engineering company and provides information technology, systems integration and eSolutions to commercial and government customers. The company's engineering focus has been on solving complex technical issues in national and homeland security, energy, the environment, telecommunications, healthcare and transportation. The Army's Simulation, Training and Instrument Command recently awarded the company an eight-year contract worth up to $4 billion. Under the contract, SAIC is responsible for the design and implementation of constructive domain systems, which include automated simulations representing the actions of people and systems within the simulation.

Vidaroo
Vidaroo is a video technology company that provides an online video platform, video production and advertising on its online video network reaching over 10 million visitors monthly. Their online video platform, online video advertising network and video production has earned the trust of a growing customer base including advertising agencies, iconic artists, media companies, organizations, businesses and national brands such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola Company, Tribune News Company, Toyota, Emmis Communications, Clear Channel, Black Eyed Peas, Mary J. Blige, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and more. Vidaroo’s online video publishing technology enables businesses to easily create and monetize video and advertising delivery.

ZeeGee Games
Zeitgeist Games, Inc. was originally started in 2002 as a "pen and paper" role playing game company. After the immediate success of the company, the company decided to expand its product line into the realm of video gaming and the company you see today was born. In July 2009, Zeitgeist Games was renamed ZeeGee Games. At present, ZeeGee Games has developed games and applications on such platforms as PC, Nintendo DS, and iPhone.