Bringing your creative ideas to life since 1999
ABOUT SHAVEFX
Award-winning studio featuring animators and artists with decades of experience in the creative post-production world.
Founded in 1999 by Dave Gau, ShaveFX is a motion design and animation studio in Richmond, Virginia delivering high-quality animation and visual effects for regional and international clients. What began as a small studio quickly grew into a trusted production partner for agencies, brands, and production teams of all sizes.
Today, Dave remains hands-on in every project—providing creative direction, motion design, and production leadership—while assembling custom teams of top-tier artists to match each project’s scope and goals. From motion graphics and 3D animation to concept development and visual storytelling, ShaveFX works seamlessly with your team to turn ideas into compelling on-screen experiences.
Scroll on to explore our services, demos, and recent work—and see why ShaveFX is a go-to animation partner for independent producers and leading creative agencies alike.
Creative Services
MOTION GRAPHICS
Transform complex ideas into clear, engaging visuals that grab attention fast and make your message easier to understand and remember.
3D ANIMATION
Transform complex ideas into clear, engaging visuals that grab attention fast and make your message easier to understand and remember.
SCRIPTING & STORYBOARDS
Transform complex ideas into clear, engaging visuals that grab attention fast and make your message easier to understand and remember.
CREATIVE DIRECTION
Transform complex ideas into clear, engaging visuals that grab attention fast and make your message easier to understand and remember.
CARTOONING & ILLUSTRATION
Transform complex ideas into clear, engaging visuals that grab attention fast and make your message easier to understand and remember.
PER PROJECT OR RETAINER
Transform complex ideas into clear, engaging visuals that grab attention fast and make your message easier to understand and remember.
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ShaveFX Demo
Our latest showcase of various projects, large and small, highlighting the many possibilities that ShaveFX brings to the table.
ShaveFX Flashback Demo
We’re still proud of the work we’ve done from all of the years we’ve been around. Check out these samples from when had slightly fewer gray hairs.
A Few More Fun Things
Another short demo of some projects from a few years ago, showcasing the wide variety of ways that we can bring your ideas to life.
Virginia Lottery Scratchers
A series of spots designed to build excitement each month over the latest and greatest scratcher games. ShaveFX collaborated with Broadscope Media in these spots, producing and animating all of the visuals.
Richmond Folk Festival
We were thrilled to contribute this fun character animation to VPM’s documentary celebrating the Richmond Folk Festival’s 10th year. If you’re interested in the full documentary, you can find it HERE!
State Learning Systems
Whiteboard Animations
ShaveFX helped create an explainer video in a whiteboard style of animation to help shed light on how states use academic research data to help improve education systems. Our Virginia video was so successful that we adapted and customized the approach for several other states, including Indiana, Alaska and Nevada.
LOI Insurance
Our background in comedy writing and performance was the perfect fit for Digital Cut Productions in Ft. Lauderdale. Sure, this piece has a simple & fun animnated logo, but ShaveFX was brought in to write, cast, direct & edit this spot for a local car insurance company looking to stand with the national companies on a local budget. Not motion graphics heavy by any stretch, but it sure was fun.
Will Goldschmidt
DBDriven.Net LLC
Lauri Oliva
Digital Cut Productions
Gene Harris
Ferguson EnterprisesGet in touch!
Let’s start a conversation to bring motion and life to your ideas!
