DogHead Animation
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2019
- Employees
- 201-500
- Offices
- 3
About DogHead Animation
DogHead Animation is an Italian studio specializing in 2D animation for television, streaming, feature films, commercials and music videos. Launched in Florence in 2019 by Movimenti Production following its legal incorporation in December 2018, the studio brings together hand-drawn, digital paperless and cut-out animation capabilities. Its work spans preschool and children’s programming through young adult and adult animation.
The company supports productions from early visual development through finished animated scenes. Pre-production work includes concept design, storyboarding, animatics, character and background styling, episodic model packs and color scripting. Production capabilities cover asset creation, character rigging, layout posing, scene preparation, background painting and animation. Its finishing services include animated effects, clean-up, digital ink and paint, compositing, color correction and scene exports.
Production work
DogHead served as the core animation house for Zerocalcare’s Netflix series Tear Along the Dotted Line and This World Can't Tear Me Down. Its involvement in Due Spicci includes pre-production, rigs, paperless animation and cut-out animation, reflecting its ability to contribute across several stages of an episodic production.
International assignments include animation and backgrounds for Hazbin Hotel Season 2, hybrid animation and compositing for Bat-Fam, and background scenes, layout, animation and compositing for Merry Little Batman. Other supported work includes Totally Spies! Season 7, Mr. Bean: The Animated Series, Super Happy Magic Forest, Topo Gigio and Bugs Bunny Builders. The studio has also contributed animated sequences to Marco Bellocchio’s Rapito and produced animated music-video work for Italian recording artists.
Development and ownership
Florence remains the studio’s main creative and operational base, complemented by its Apulia production operation in Bari. DogHead is directly owned by Movimenti Production. Banijay’s acquisition of Movimenti in September 2022 brought the studio into the Banijay Kids & Family division, while DogHead continued operating under its own animation brand.
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Leadership
The report identifies Giovanna Bo as Chief Creative Officer / Senior Executive Producer, Alessio Giurintano and Massimo Montigiani as art directors, and Andrea Fantechi as technical director. It also names Movimenti co-founders Giorgio Scorza and Davide Rosio among the studio’s executive leadership.
Production approach
The studio uses a Toon Boom Harmony pipeline combining digital paperless and cut-out animation with integrated 3D elements. Its rigging capabilities include advanced puppet construction and master controller setup.
Talent development
The Apulia operation launched in March 2023 in collaboration with Apulia Film Commission, expanding production capacity while supporting animator training in southern Italy. The report describes an operating model combining a permanent crew with a wider network of freelance and contract production talent.
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Where DogHead Animation is based
- Via delle Cascine 33–35 / Piazza Francesca Morvillo 15, Edificio B5, Manifattura Tabacchi, 50144 FlorenceFlorence, Tuscany, Italy
Florence office
HeadquartersOverall headquarters and main animation facility, housing executive production, artistic direction and creative departments.
- Bari, Apulia, Italy
Bari offices
About this office
**DogHead Animation Apulia** Status: active Address: Isola Coworking, Viale Ennio 6B, 70124 Bari Email: animadeinpuglia@dogheadanimation.com Opened: 2023 Operational premises of the same-brand Apulia production branch. --- **DogHead Animation Apulia** Status: active Address: Apulia Film House, Padiglione 81, Fiera del Levante, Lungomare Starita 1, 70132 Bari Additional supported premises of the Apulia operation, associated with its launch and regional production activity. --- **DogHead Animation Apulia** Status: active Address: Via Matteo Renato Imbriani 67, 70121 Bari Registered seat of the Apulia branch; distinct from its production premises.
- Via Cola Montano 9, 20159 MilanMilan, Lombardy, Italy
Milan office
Statutory registered office and corporate administrative seat shared with Movimenti Production.
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