blue zoo

#1 STUDIO AND SHORT FILMS

Now in its 21st year, Blue Zoo has become one of the UK’s leading animation studios. It’s built its name producing joyfully compelling animations, packed with story and character, brought to life with unique and innovative visuals. The studio boasts a colourful portfolio of work spanning long-form children’s TV like the BAFTA-winning Numberblocks, boundary-pushing short-form animation, original IPs, and existing IPs like The Adventures Of Paddington, and has also worked on adverts for companies such as Disney and Playmobil. Blue Zoo has garnered a host of animation awards for its work and won the BAFTA for Independent Production Company of The Year twice.

Throughout its rise and rise, Blue Zoo has remained committed to building a positive work environment, populated by talented, enthusiastic artists that are proud of what they create. It has also worked tirelessly to improve the UK animation industry, establishing and working closely with various initiatives to ensure a thriving, inclusive future for the whole industry.

This in-depth series on Blue Zoo will explore each aspect of the multifaceted, diverse and forward-thinking animation studio. We’ll look at how the studio develops animated shows and unique visuals, how it animates stories on a budget, the lighting and compositing workflows and, finally, explore realtime technology and the future of animation. But first, sat down with Blue Zoo’s co-founder Tom Box to