Fly Moustache
With great moustache comes great responsibility
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- Founded
- 2022
- Employees
- 1-10
- Offices
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About Fly Moustache
Fly Moustache is an independent 2D animation studio in Faro, Portugal, producing original animated properties, international co-productions and client-service work. Its practice spans digital tradigital, cut-out and traditional frame-by-frame animation for television series, feature films, shorts, commercials and educational content.
The studio provides an end-to-end 2D production offering, from visual development through final compositing. Its work includes concept and character design, background art, storyboarding, animatics, scene preparation, character rigging, clean-up, inbetweening, 2D effects and shadow animation. Toon Boom Harmony is a principal tool for cut-out rigging and technical scene setup.
Production and development
Alongside vendor work, Fly Moustache develops and co-produces original projects with international partners. Its slate includes the children's series Planet Agents, developed with Greece's Funny Tales; Vila Marela, with COMBO and MANEKI; the anime-style series Occupation: Witch, with Lazy Sunday and Funny Tales; and the animated feature co-production Foldara.
The studio's credits also include animation sequence services for Sessions: Star Guardian Taliyah for Riot Games Music, 2D FX shadow animation on A Greyhound of a Girl, and vendor work on Worry World. It created Guardians of Ria Formosa, an educational animated short made with the University of Algarve for Portugal's pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.
Fly Moustache also undertakes commercial, cultural and public-interest productions, including explainer videos, motion graphics and mixed-media animation. Its work has served broadcasters and streaming platforms, gaming media, educational institutions, cultural organisations and commercial clients.
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Leadership and local development
Fly Moustache was founded by animation director and producer João Carrilho, who wholly owns and manages the single-member company as its executive producer. Before establishing the studio, Carrilho worked across European animation hubs including Belfast, Stuttgart and Dublin.
The studio grew from Carrilho's 2021 win in the University of Algarve CRIA's Ideias em Caixa entrepreneurship initiative. Since December 2023, it has participated in the UALG TEC CAMPUS incubation and acceleration ecosystem and maintains an academic partnership with the University of Algarve's Animated Image degree programme, connecting students and recent graduates with professional international animation pipelines.
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Where Fly Moustache is based
- UALG TEC CAMPUS, Estrada da Penha, Office nº 01, 8005-139 Faro, PortugalFaro, Faro District, Portugal
Fly Moustache Headquarters & Production Studio
HeadquartersHeadquarters and physical production studio at UALG TEC CAMPUS; Fly Moustache integrated into the accelerator ecosystem in December 2023.
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