FOST Studio

FOST Studio is a French animation production and service studio specializing in traditional and digital 2D animation, alongside pre-production for animated and CGI projects. Founded in 2018 by Damien Brunner, Didier Brunner and Thibaut Ruby, it works on feature films, television series, streaming productions and short-form media. Its teams operate across Paris and Angoulême, supporting French and international productions.

The studio grew from an artist workshop assembled at Folivari in 2014 for projects including The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales and Ernest & Célestine, The Collection. That workshop provided the foundation for a permanent animation manufacturing business. FOST subsequently developed an independent commercial service offering, working both on Folivari productions and for external studios and international partners.

From visual development to finishing

FOST supports projects from early artistic development through animation and finishing. Its pre-production work includes concept art, character and prop design, storyboarding, animatics, environment design and background layout. Production capabilities encompass hand-drawn animation, cutout and digital puppet animation, followed by cleanup, ink and paint, color styling, compositing and visual effects integration.

The studio also contributes to hybrid and CGI projects through design, modeling and preview work. Technical and production supervisors coordinate project-specific workflows across multiple studios and international coproduction partners, allowing FOST to provide individual production stages or a broader animation pipeline according to a project's requirements.

Selected production work

Its feature work includes animation services on My Father's Dragon, animation sequences and post-production management on Wolfwalkers, and animation, cleanup and visual effects for The Summit of the Gods. It also contributed pre-production, production and post-production animation to Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia.

For television and streaming, FOST created hand-drawn story sequences for Stillwater and provided pre-production and production management for SamSam. In 2025, it served as the primary animation production studio for Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, extending its work into adult animated espionage storytelling.