Kerrupt Stop-Motion Animation
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About Kerrupt Stop-Motion Animation
Kerrupt Stop-Motion Animation is an independent British animation production studio based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. It creates character-driven, handcrafted animation for television, advertising and digital platforms, combining physical characters, miniature environments and stop-frame photography. Its work spans commercial commissions, branded entertainment and original programme development.
The studio provides production from initial concept through final delivery. Projects can encompass scriptwriting, storyboarding, character design, armature fabrication, puppet modelling, miniature set construction, animation photography, compositing, sound design and post-production. This connects the development of a character or campaign with the practical work of building and filming its physical world.
Handcrafted animation across formats
Claymation and puppet animation sit alongside toy and product animation, LEGO, paper cut-outs, sand art and mixed-media techniques. Kerrupt also integrates stop-frame animation with live-action footage. Its production services cover broadcast advertising, channel idents, promotional films and social video tailored to platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and LinkedIn.
The studio works with broadcasters, creative agencies, toy manufacturers, entertainment rights holders, consumer brands and public-sector organisations. The supplied research documents more than 300 short-form animations, with commissions and client relationships spanning the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, MTV, Mattel, Hasbro, Moonbug Entertainment and WildBrain.
Broadcast, toys and original development
Broadcast work includes claymation sequences for 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, featuring Jimmy Carr, together with MTV Europe idents and promotional animation. Toy-led productions include Playmobil web shorts, Dino Ranch playisodes and Little People web episodes. These projects use physical products and characters as the basis for short-form storytelling and digital campaigns.
Alongside commissioned production, Kerrupt develops original entertainment intellectual property. Oops and Daisy’s Melody Rainbow is an educational musical stop-motion series created for presentation to international broadcasters. This development work extends the studio’s activities beyond individual advertising briefs into children’s episodic entertainment.
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Founder and leadership
James Kerr, legally named James Davidson Kerr Higginson, is identified as the studio's founder, Managing Director and Creative Lead, as well as its corporate director and person with significant control.
Production model
The studio scales its core team with contract animators, fabricators and model makers according to each production brief. It describes its regional operating model as a cost-effective northern alternative to London-based animation facilities.
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Where Kerrupt Stop-Motion Animation is based
- Doncaster, England, United Kingdom
Doncaster offices
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**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: GF17, Oxford House, Sixth Avenue, Doncaster DN9 3GG, United Kingdom Production premises in the Finningley airport business area, forming part of the studio's Doncaster headquarters operation. --- **Office** Status: active Address: Armstrong House, First Avenue, Finningley, Doncaster DN9 3GA, United Kingdom Additional named production premises within the Doncaster operation; the report supplies no relocation or closure chronology. --- **Office** Status: active Address: 9 Lower Pasture, Blaxton, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN9 3RF, United Kingdom Corporate registered office; not identified as a production facility.
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