Aupa Studio

Aupa Studio is a Spanish animation pre-production studio based in Godella, near Valencia. It specializes in storyboarding, animatics and visual storytelling, supporting animated feature films, television and streaming series, commercials, pilots and short films. The studio works with international producers as an external storyboard department, helping translate scripts and treatments into visual sequences before animation production begins.

Its work spans cinematic staging, character acting, action choreography and comedy timing. Projects can move from narrative breakdown and initial thumbnails through rough storyboard panels, revisions and clean-up to polished, model-accurate boards. Animatics bring these sequences into an editorial timeline, using temporary dialogue and sound to explore pacing, camera mechanics and the rhythm of a scene. The studio offers both 2D and 3D animatic capabilities, alongside pipeline consultation and dedicated department outsourcing.

Feature and episodic work

The studio's operational history dates to March 2017, when Dragoia Media engaged its team to develop more than 50 minutes of storyboards and animatics for Dragonkeeper. The business subsequently incorporated in 2022, following several years of work across European feature and television productions.

Its feature credits include storyboards for The Violinist, storyboard collaboration on They Shot the Piano Player, and storyboarding for Rotzbub, also known as Welcome to Siegheilkirchen. Episodic work includes storyboards, clean-up and animatics for the first two seasons of Mermaid Magic, storyboard sequences for Love, Death & Robots, and contributions to Talking Tom Heroes: Suddenly Super and Dino Mates.

Alongside commissioned pre-production, Aupa Studio participates in original development and co-production. Its projects include Lorca's Last Dream, with co-production and direction responsibilities, and the developing animated project A Civil Guard in New York. Its commercial portfolio includes campaigns for food, consumer healthcare, fragrance, television and retail brands, applying its storyboard capabilities to shorter advertising formats as well as longer narrative productions.