Creative Production House

Film, Print, Animation, Games

We bring together new voices and established artists to create new projects inspired by timeless stories that resonate across cultures and generations.

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Creatives

Our creative team comprises established, award-winning professionals from across the industry, bringing a wealth of experience from multiple countries and diverse work environments. This rich tapestry of backgrounds enables us to approach projects with a unique perspective, fostering innovative solutions that resonate globally. Additionally, we are committed to nurturing the next generation of talent through our mentorship and apprenticeship program, providing young and emerging artists with opportunities to gain valuable experience and insight in real working environments, helping them establish their career paths in a supportive setting.

Animation Projects

Our current animation projects span a spectrum of tone and emotion. From playful, visually rich short films that spark imagination and joy, to long-form documentary projects that explore the deeper complexities of human experience.
Alongside a limited series for television and streaming audiences also in development, our teams delv into stories of resilience, choice, and connection, offering an empathetic lens on some of today’s most pressing realities.
Across every project, we’re driven by a commitment to storytelling that unites artistry with purpose. We believe that art and creativity is one of the best ways of revealing the beauty, humour, and strength that defines our shared humanity.

Publications

Our publishing projects bring new life to the stories we think we know and are already familiar. Every page reinterpreting shared myths and familiar narratives through distinctive voices and visual worlds.
From a graphic novel for older readers to a vibrant children’s series and an original comic line, each work invites readers to see the extraordinary within the everyday.
Developed by and for a broad community of readers, these stories celebrate the diversity of human experience, celebrating diversity and ensuring that everyone can find a reflection of themselves in the worlds we create.

Games

Our game worlds are built for those who crave story, character, and choice.
From an original tabletop role-playing experience to an online adventure, both current projects in development immerses the players in richly imagined realms where decisions carry weight and every path reveals new dimensions of the story.
Set between the familiar and the fantastical, these games draw on timeless themes of conflict, destiny, and transformation. We are inviting players to step inside living narratives that challenge, surprise, and stay with them long after the game ends.

Emerging Artists Competition

Championing the next generation of visual storytellers, our Emerging Artists Competition celebrates new voices in the visual arts. The aim is to bring fresh vision and fearless imagination to ideas often seen as traditional or outdated.
Held every two years, and selected by a diverse panel of twelve creatives and industry professionals, the competition showcases 23 selected artists whose work reflects originality, skill, and insight. Winners receive cash prizes for first, second, and the People’s Choice Award, and all finalists are featured in a public gallery exhibition.
Each round culminates in a beautifully produced collection of notecards and posters, highlighting the 23 featured works. Beyond recognition, the competition aims to foster community and offers emerging artists a platform to share their perspective, connect with peers, and begin their creative journey with support and visibility.
Submissions for the next competition open in January 2026.

Merchandise

Our merchandise and licensing partnerships extend the reach of our creative projects, bringing the art, imagery, and stories behind our work to new audiences around the world.
Through collaborations with select partners we develop thoughtfully designed products that celebrate the artists and narratives at the heart of our studio’s vision.
We are deeply committed to minimizing our environmental footprint, working with local and ethically minded manufacturers to ensure that every item reflects our respect for both people and planet.
These creations are designed not only to showcase our collective artistry, but also to make the work of our collaborators more accessible and thereby allowing audiences to engage with, celebrate, and carry a piece of the creativity that inspires them.

Documentaries

Our documentary projects explore the depths of human experience. These are stories of resilience, loss, and transformation told through the language of animation and music.
Each film is grounded in real lives and lived emotions: journeys through grief and endurance, courage and silence, love and survival.
One examines the unseen realities of global exploitation and the human cost that lies beneath it. Another reveals the intimate, often unspoken struggles of the body, choice, and identity tracing the strength found within pain and persistence. The third, a musical portrait, follows the rise and fall of an artist whose brilliance and vulnerability echo through his own compositions and the world he left behind.
Together, these works seek not only to illuminate difficult truths, but to find the beauty and humanity within them whilst creating space for empathy, reflection, and understanding. These are stories of truth and transformation, told through the art of human storytelling.

Contact

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Familiar Shadow

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.
- Maya Angelou