Little Shadow
- Open roles
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- Founded
- 2017
- Employees
- 1-10
- Offices
- 2
About Little Shadow
Little Shadow is an independent British visual effects, animation and motion design studio based in London. Founded in 2017, it creates imagery for broadcast television, streaming productions, advertising and cultural projects. Its work spans factual entertainment, science, natural history, documentaries, true crime and drama, combining graphic storytelling with CGI and live-action visual effects.
The studio provides full-pipeline production support, from concept design, storyboarding and pre-visualisation through modelling, animation, rotoscoping and compositing. Its capabilities include 2D and 3D motion graphics, broadcast titles, creature anatomy, fluid simulation, and scientific and historical explainer sequences. These disciplines support projects ranging from architectural reconstructions and astrophysics imagery to natural-history simulations and programme branding.
Broadcast and commercial work
Little Shadow's television portfolio includes Shark Attack 360 Season 2, Limitless with Chris Hemsworth Season 2, Dinosaur with Stephen Fry and How the Universe Works Season 10. Other work includes explainer graphics for Gold: A Journey With Idris Elba and the Windsor fire anniversary documentary, alongside a refreshed title sequence and broadcast graphics for QI. Its commercial and cultural projects include work for the Royal Opera House, Panini, Wagamama and the British Museum.
Production approaches
Virtual production forms part of the studio's approach to combining live action and digital imagery. It offers on-set hardware and supervision, real-time camera tracking, live keying and Unreal Engine rendering through mobile VP Box workflows. For Shark Attack 360 Season 2, its contribution extended across titles, promotional material and substantial CGI and virtual-production sequences.
Little Shadow also operates Reality Craft as an internal generative AI division. The division brings artist-led AI production into film, television and advertising workflows. The studio describes this work as supported by intellectual-property safeguards and project-specific indemnity arrangements. Alongside its animation and compositing services, this gives productions access to both conventional VFX techniques and newer real-time and AI-assisted methods.
More about Little Shadow
Founders and team
- Co-founder Simon Percy previously co-founded and directed Darkside Animation in 2000, a separate earlier venture.
- Co-founder and creative director Caroline Phasey began her career at Molinare and oversees graphic design and 2D/3D motion graphics.
- The reported team includes Head of Production Amber Woodcock, VFX & AI Lead Lucas Zoltowski, and senior artists Jonny Burton, Greg Cox and Garry Brown. Specialist AI producer Colin Byrne leads Reality Craft.
Production technology
For Shark Attack 360 Season 2, the studio combined its custom VP Box with Unreal Engine, DaVinci Resolve Studio AI Magic Mask rotoscoping and Blackmagic Ultimatte keying. The setup enabled real-time visualisation and compositing of anatomical shark simulations in an underground rotunda at Collins Music Hall. The project involved 256 VFX shots and 45 minutes of finished screen time.
Collaboration
Little Shadow works closely with Curious Productions, a distinct production and post-production company sharing its building.
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Where Little Shadow is based
- 1st Floor, 3-4 Baker's Yard, London, EC1R 3DD, United KingdomLondon, England, United Kingdom
London Production Studio
HeadquartersAbout this office
Primary operating studio on the first floor, sharing reception access with Curious Productions. Little Shadow's internal Reality Craft division operates at the same premises.
- The Old Forge, East Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 2TP, United KingdomColchester, England, United Kingdom
Colchester Registered Office
Statutory registered office. The report does not establish production operations at this address.
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