Clartoons

Clartoons was an independent Canadian animation and creative production studio founded in 2017 by animator, artist and educator Robert Clark. Based in the Greater Toronto Area, it developed animation and interactive entertainment during a commercial operating period that ended in January 2019. Its website continues as Clark’s personal creative portfolio and archive.

The studio brought together character animation, storyboarding, animation direction and video game production. Its production capabilities spanned 2D and 3D work, narrative development, location design and environment layout, with services extending to voice direction, editing and creative consultation. Clark served as owner, director and producer during the studio’s operating period.

A principal project associated with that period was Shuyan Saga, an interactive martial arts title developed in partnership with Mark Media. The production combined 2D and 3D elements. Clark’s responsibilities included creative direction, narrative storyboarding, animation supervision, art design and voice casting, bringing several aspects of visual storytelling and performance into the production process.

Portfolio and continuing creative work

Following the commercial studio’s closure, the Clartoons website became an archive of Clark’s animation and artistic practice. It presents past production work alongside storyboards, concept designs, life drawings and traditional oil paintings. The portfolio reflects a practice spanning screen storytelling, drawing and fine art, with current creator services described as concept design, storyboarding, fine art commissions and art instruction.

The archive also documents Clark’s broader professional career. Those individual credits include work undertaken for other animation companies and should be understood separately from productions made during his ownership of Clartoons.