All services
Thumbnails
Engineered for the click, not decorated after the fact.
Composite thumbnails built to survive a crowded sidebar at 210 pixels wide - strong silhouette, one idea, readable on a phone in sunlight.
Start a project from $400 /thumbnail
What you get
- 3 distinct concepts per video, not 3 colour variants
- Full composite work: cut-outs, retouch, lighting, grade
- Legibility-checked at mobile sidebar size
- Title-and-thumbnail pairing, never designed in isolation
- Layered source files handed over
- Unlimited revisions until it reads
- Monthly retainers from 8 thumbnails, billed at a lower unit rate
How it runs
- 01
Brief
We read the actual video. The thumbnail has to promise what it delivers.
- 02
Concept
Three competing angles - usually curiosity, stakes and payoff.
- 03
Build
Composite, retouch and grade to a broadcast standard.
- 04
Shrink test
If it fails at thumbnail size on a phone, it does not ship.
- 05
Pair
Final pass against the title so the two do not say the same thing.
Why this holds up
Generative models produce plausible images. They do not know that your face mid-sentence out-performs a clean studio shot on your channel, or that your audience is fatigued on red arrows. That comes from testing against a specific audience.
Also worth pairing