Keytoon Animation Studio
- Open roles
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- Founded
- 2004
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 2
About Keytoon Animation Studio
Keytoon Animation Studio is a Spanish computer animation company founded in Valencia in 2004. It creates 3D animation for feature films, television and streaming series, video game cinematics, and advertising. Its work combines original productions and international co-productions with animation services for external producers, developers, publishers, and commercial clients.
The studio supports projects from development through final delivery. Pre-production services include story concepts, scriptwriting, storyboards, and animatics. Production covers character and environment modeling, texturing, rigging, layout, character animation, and visual effects. Lighting, rendering, compositing, sound design, and master finishing complete its production offering. Its technical capabilities encompass both real-time and offline rendering, with character production using tools including Blender, Autodesk Maya, and 3ds Max.
Features and episodic animation
Keytoon provided core animation for La gallina Turuleca, directed by Eduardo Gondell and Víctor Monigote. Its feature work also includes La gran aventura de los Lunnis y el libro mágico, animation services for Quackerz, and CGI sequences for 31 minutos, la película. Short-form projects include animation contributions to Rodrigo Blaas’s Alma and the studio’s CARNIVALAND teaser.
Its television portfolio includes Trotties, Turu y los turulecos, Gormiti Legends, Super Cute, Jappy, and Glumpers. Keytoon also served as the principal animation studio for the 52-episode SuperThings: Rivals of Kaboom series, adapting Magicbox’s toy franchise for broadcast audiences. The studio’s feature adaptation, Superthings: La película, premiered in October 2026, extending its work with the property from episodic television into theatrical animation.
Cinematics and commercial work
Through collaborations with Axis Studios, Keytoon contributed animation to projects associated with New World, Magic: The Gathering, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III, and Halo 5: Guardians. Its advertising work includes commercials and promotional animation for Disney Channel, Philips, and Nestlé. Across these formats, the studio applies its character animation and production capabilities to both entertainment properties and commissioned brand projects.
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Leadership and early history
David Cuevas is Creative Director, Jonathan Cuevas is Animation Director, and David Lacruz Sanchis is Line Producer / Head of Production. The report identifies them as founding partners managing the independent studio. Early co-founder Jaime Maestro departed before 2011 to launch PrimerFrame.
Production approach
Keytoon describes an Unreal Engine 5 pipeline that reduces rendering overhead and enables full 52-episode broadcast seasons to be delivered within months. This is the studio’s account of its production approach and delivery capability.
Original production and education
Socks was developed as part of the studio’s move into its own productions, with German financing and co-production involving Studio Hamburg and NDR. Keytoon also collaborates with ESAT on the ESAT/Keytoon Animation Master’s programme.
Recognition
La gallina Turuleca, for which Keytoon provided core animation, won the 2021 Goya Award for Best Animated Film. The award belongs to the film. The Grandfather of Soul, directed by early co-founder Jaime Maestro, was a SIGGRAPH finalist in 2007.
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Where Keytoon Animation Studio is based
- Ronda Narciso Monturiol Nº 6, Oficina 108 B, Edificio Destro B, Parque Tecnológico, 46980 PaternaPaterna, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
Paterna office
HeadquartersAbout this office
Main headquarters and production facility housing directing, rigging, character animation, Unreal Engine pipeline development, and management.
- València, Valencian Community, Spain
València office
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