Big Studios
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 1991
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About Big Studios
Big Studios is a Toronto-based Canadian motion design, broadcast branding, and animation studio established in 1991. Working across television, sports, entertainment, advertising, and gaming promotion, it develops visual identities and production packages for networks, streaming platforms, live events, and commercial campaigns.
Its work combines strategy, design, and production. The studio supports creative brainstorming, discovery research, brand launches, and activations; its design capabilities include branding, character design, illustration, 2D and 3D logos, sports and network on-air packages, and main titles for shows and films. Production services span storyboarding, animation, compositing, editorial, live-action production, stadium graphics, motion capture, and Unreal Engine integration.
Broadcast, Sports, and Real-Time Graphics
A core focus is broadcast packaging and visual identity for sports and television. Big Studios has created work for projects including The Masters on ESPN, NHL on TNT, NASCAR on TNT Sports, Live with Kelly & Mark, Disney's Dunk The Halls 2025, Monsters Funday Football, Toy Story Funday Football, Inside Out Classic, Monday Night Football, MLB Tonight, and Riot Games’ LCS broadcasts.
The studio integrates 2D and 3D animation with real-time production technologies, including motion capture, visual effects, Unreal Engine pipelines, and augmented or mixed-reality broadcast applications. Its work encompasses television network rebrands, sports graphics packages, main title sequences, virtual production, and stadium graphics.
Big Studios’ reported client collaborations include ESPN, Turner Sports/TNT Sports, ABC, HBO Max, Disney, the NFL, and Riot Games. The company operates as an active independent studio and is legally registered in Ontario as Bigstudios Inc.
More about Big Studios
Leadership and Related Production
- Jocelyne Meinert founded Big Studios with Colin Gillies and is identified as Owner, Executive Producer, and Senior Creative Director. The report also notes that she has been referenced as Jocelyn Connolly.
- Reported leadership includes Tysen Potter (Head of Studio / Executive Producer), Rita Slevikas (Executive Producer), Jordan Greenstein (Creative Director), and Javier Castellanos (Technical Director).
- In 2009, Meinert founded Little Blackstone Studios Inc. as a sister boutique studio for original animated series, narrative film, and character-driven projects.
Recognition
Big Studios is reported to have received ten Sports Emmy Awards, twenty-nine Emmy nominations, and an Academy Award shortlist recognition. Its associated project Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis was Oscar shortlisted and nominated for a News & Doc Emmy.
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Where Big Studios is based
- 366 Adelaide Street West, Suite 606, Toronto, ON M5V 1R9, CanadaToronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto Headquarters
HeadquartersDirect studio headquarters.
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