Atem Entertainment
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About Atem Entertainment
Atem Entertainment is an independent Stockholm-based studio developing original intellectual property across animation, tabletop games and children's publishing. Established as a creative partnership in the early 2000s, it incorporated as a Swedish limited company in 2015. Its work connects characters and fictional worlds across television, physical games and illustrated literature, combining original production with commercial creative services.
The studio's flagship property, Space Yoghurt, is a 3D CGI children's comedy about three green, one-eyed alien spaceters: Captain Migol, Popodom and Drod. The franchise spans three television seasons, a board game and illustrated books. Its television distribution has included Toon Goggles, Ameba TV, Amazon Prime Video, Tencent Video and SF Kids Play, alongside other international broadcast and streaming partners.
Animation and visual storytelling
Atem's animation capabilities cover 2D and 3D CGI production, stop-motion and pixilation. Its services include screenwriting, narrative development, worldbuilding, visual concept art and character design, as well as storyboarding and advertising illustration. The studio also participates in co-productions and international content licensing.
Its production portfolio includes the animated family adventure Lea and The Forest Pirates, created with Snowcloud Films, SVT and the Swedish Film Institute's Moving Sweden initiative. Other reported projects include the animated short MeatBALLS, the mixed animation and live-action short Three Centimetres, and the pixilation thriller Loop. Commercial commissions have included storyboards and animation for Telia, McDonald's, MediaMarkt and the Swedish Armed Forces.
Games and children's books
The studio designs and publishes physical tabletop games, including Space Yoghurt The Board Game, the family card game Yoli Boli and the strategy game Under Blood Red Skies. Its game work includes design and prototyping.
Atem also publishes children's picture books in print and digital formats. Its catalog includes Don't Bring Rupert To The Beach, Owl Is Here!, Spring for Owl, the Piglet Betty stories and Space Yoghurt books. Together, these activities support a publishing and production model built around original stories that can develop across several entertainment formats.
More about Atem Entertainment
Leadership and production model
- Co-founder Maria Alexandrova Avramova is the Managing Director and works as a director, writer and producer. Co-founder Christer Hägglund works as an animation producer and game developer.
- The report describes a core team led by the two founders, with project-based animators, illustrators and co-production staff supporting development and production.
- Production of Space Yoghurt expanded to Bulgaria around 2018, with later seasons using international co-production arrangements and local recording facilities.
Recognition and milestones
- Don’t Bring Rupert To The Beach received a Reader’s Favorite Award and an award in the 2023 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award Winter Competition. These recognitions concern the book.
- Maria Avramova wrote the screenplay for Odd is an Egg, which won Best Animated Short Film at the Tribeca Film Festival. The recognition belongs to the film.
- Under Blood Red Skies was presented at SPIEL’13 in Essen, Germany.
Notable credits
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Where Atem Entertainment is based
- Odengatan 48A, lgh 1102 (c/o Kent-Ove Lindström), 113 51 Stockholm, SwedenStockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Stockholm office
HeadquartersRegistered corporate headquarters and primary creative direction office, responsible for IP rights ownership.
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