Flux Animation

Flux Animation is an Auckland-based character animation and visual storytelling studio working across commercial advertising, episodic television and feature-film production. Founded in 1997, the studio combines 2D and 3D character work with motion design, visual effects and compositing for local and international clients.

Its work spans the production process from early concept development through final delivery. The team provides character design, visual development, storyboarding and animatics, then produces hand-drawn and digital-puppet animation, 3D modelling, texturing, rigging, CGI character performance and stop motion. Post-production capabilities include lighting, rendering, compositing, colour grading, motion graphics and VFX integration.

Character-led production

Flux’s practice is centred on design-led storytelling and character animation in multiple formats:

• 2D vector, hand-crafted and digital-puppet animation
• 3D CGI animation, character modelling and rigging
• Motion design and broadcast graphics
• Visual effects, compositing and finishing
• Stop-motion animation and commercial campaign production

The studio works across entertainment, advertising, digital series, public-sector campaigns and toy and character-licensing franchises. Its in-house team includes directors, 2D and 3D animators, character modellers, motion designers and VFX artists.

Selected work

Credits include the animated feature 25 April; Disney’s 2020 holiday campaign From Our Family To Yours, made in support of Make-A-Wish; Contact Energy’s Flatties campaign; promotional animation for Netflix’s Stranger Things; and hand-drawn retro sprite animation for A Minecraft Movie. The studio has also contributed to Shopkins: Chef Club, the Shopkins animated webseries, Master Raindrop, Staines Down Drains, Tamatoa the Brave Warrior and Tiki Tour.

Flux continues to operate as an independent studio under Flux Animation Studio Limited, following a 2021 restructuring of its operating entity.