Elliott Animation
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 1997
- Employees
- 51-200
- Offices
- 1
About Elliott Animation
Elliott Animation is an artist-owned, full-service 2D and 3D animation studio based in Toronto, Canada. Its work spans animated television series, digital shorts, CGI cinematography, and visual effects for children’s, youth, and family entertainment. Founded as Pictor Entertainment in 1997, the company adopted the Elliott Animation name in 2000 and developed a production portfolio encompassing digital 2D, character-driven CGI, and hybrid live-action animation.
The studio provides production services from concept development through post-production. Its pre-production capabilities include visual development, storyboarding, character design, environment layout, and sheet timing. CGI services cover modeling, rigging, texturing, and character animation, alongside digital 2D animation and compositing. Cinematography, virtual camera direction, on-set visual effects supervision, rendering, audio assembly, and non-linear editing extend its work across different production formats.
Television and digital production
Elliott Animation’s television work includes the original Total Drama Island, its 2023 revival, and subsequent productions across the Total Drama franchise. Its portfolio also includes Total DramaRama, Grojband, Stoked, and animation for seasons three and four of 6teen. Other productions include Yin Yang Yo!, Rollbots, Crash Canyon, and the second season of Jimmy Two-Shoes.
The studio’s CGI and hybrid work includes Sitting Ducks, Zixx: Level One, and Lucas the Spider, encompassing both television and short-form digital production. Its service assignments include animation for Nickelodeon’s The Fairly OddParents! and Bunsen Is a Beast, cinematic animation for Ubisoft’s Starlink: Battle for Atlas – Crimson Moon, and visual effects production for My Babysitter’s a Vampire.
Elliott Animation works closely with sister company Fresh TV while remaining a distinct animation production business. Fresh TV concentrates on intellectual property creation, development, financing, writing, and distribution, with Elliott providing animation production. This collaboration sits alongside third-party service work, giving the studio a production model that combines recurring franchise assignments with projects for external producers and entertainment companies.
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Leadership
George Elliott is President & Creative Director, and Brian Irving is Executive Producer & CFO. Jennifer Pertsch and Tom McGillis are also partners in the artist-owned and managed business.
Production methods and infrastructure
- The studio’s production history records the use of 3D Studio Max, beginning with alpha software, to produce a complete broadcast series on Sitting Ducks.
- In 2002, it used the Lithtech 3D game engine as primary production software for Zixx: Level One, an early application of real-time game technology to long-format broadcast animation.
- In 2007, the studio introduced the Gamecaster handheld virtual 3D camera system into its work on Rollbots.
- Its production facility includes more than 100 digital workstations, five compositing suites, audio assembly rooms, and an in-house CGI render farm.
Operating model and earlier history
The studio combines a permanent core team with production artists and technicians engaged for major series. This project-based structure allows its production workforce to expand during concurrent assignments.
Before establishing Pictor Entertainment, George Elliott began his animation career at Nelvana in 1985 on Star Wars: Droids. He subsequently started a home-based studio in Brampton in 1988, serving clients including MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Sony Columbia Tristar, and Universal Studios.
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Where Elliott Animation is based
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: 237 Wallace Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6H 1V5, Canada Email: info@elliottanimation.ca Phone: +1 416-588-6364 Opened: 2009 Company-owned headquarters and animation production facility in the Junction Triangle. Purchased in 2009 and expanded through acquisition of an adjacent property in 2016. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 219 Dufferin Street, Suite 210C, Toronto, ON M6K 1Y9 Former studio premises in the Dufferin Liberty Centre, used before the relocation to Wallace Avenue.
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