Stop Motion Production

Here is how this works in practice. Spain's stop-motion and animation bench is anchored by a tight set of senior studios with global IP track records. Lightbox Animation Madrid produced Klaus (the 2019 Sergio Pablos feature that earned the Best Animated Feature BAFTA and an Oscar nomination — a stop-motion-aesthetic 2D-animation feature) and continues with Spirit Untamed cross-pipeline support. Ilion Animation (Madrid) produced Planet 51 and Mortadelo y Filemón feature work. User T38 Madrid handles the Spanish stop-motion commercial bench.

Here is the short of it. Anima Kitchent Madrid produces Pocoyó (the global pre-school IP distributed in 100+ countries, first commissioned by Channel 4 and the Spanish TV networks Cuatro) plus Cleo & Cuquín for Spanish and Latin American distribution. Filmax Animation Barcelona handles the Catalan-language and Catalan-TV networks TV3 commissioning + global co-productions work. La Casa Animada and a wider pool of Madrid + Barcelona animation studios fill the supporting bench. The ECAM Madrid + ESCAC Barcelona animation programs feed the certified animator + DOP pipeline. With Dragonframe (the industry-standard stop-motion software, native to Mac + Windows) and Stop Motion Pro pipelines handling frame-by-frame capture.

Here is the breakdown. Engagements start with a creative brief, an animation-style spec (puppet armature stop-motion + claymation + replacement-animation + cutout-animation + object-animation variants). A puppet-design + sculpt + mould pipeline plan and a Dragonframe-shoot scheduling block for the production stages. Stop-motion-shoot rigs combine Canon EOS R5 + Sony A7R V tethered to Dragonframe + Stop Motion Pro on a dedicated capture workstation with motion-control camera moves via eMotimo Range + Syrp Genie II for traveling-shot stop-motion (the most demanding craft tier). Lighting flows through Aputure 600d Pro + Astera Titan Tube + Litepanels Gemini tied to the puppet-scale set work.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. With the Madrid Lightbox + Ilion + Anima Kitchent stages each carrying standing animation-rig grids. Global broadcast distribution mostly targets Netflix First + DisneyPlus + AppleTV+ + AmazonPrime + HBO Max + Channel 4 + CBeebies + the Spanish RTVE Clan + Catalan TV3 Super 3 kids' programming. Bilingual ES/EN creative direction is standard, Catalan + Basque + Galician + Valencian regional ease ready for the autonomous-region TV networks commissioning pipelines. And NAV-equivalent ATA carnet through AEAT clears imported stop-motion gear cleanly.