Pixels & Coffee Media

Pixels & Coffee Media was an independent Canadian animation and digital media production studio founded in 2016 by Mathew Huerto and Sharmil Halaldeen. Based in Cambridge, Ontario, the boutique company produced animation for television, digital entertainment and commercial communications. Its work combined character animation with motion graphics and post-production, serving children’s and family entertainment as well as corporate and advertising clients.

The studio offered script-to-screen production, taking projects through concept development, storyboards, animatics, character and environment design, rigging, layout, animation, compositing and editing. Its production capabilities encompassed traditional and digital 2D animation, with work using Toon Boom Harmony, Flash / Adobe Animate and Adobe After Effects. It also developed hybrid approaches combining 2D and 3D animation, live-action footage and stop-motion elements.

Alongside broadcast and digital series work, the company supported short-form animation, webisodes, pilots and specials. Commercial production included explainer videos, game trailers, promotional films and content for social media. This range connected its animation pipeline with projects for entertainment producers, businesses and community organizations.

Its credited work included animation services for Cyanide & Happiness Shorts and an Adam Ruins Everything segment about Christopher Columbus. For Portfolio Entertainment projects, its contributions extended across storyboarding, design, rigging, animation and post-production. The studio also contributed animation services to Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and created the Capacities promotional game trailer for Skyjack.

The supplied research describes operations winding down around 2023–2024, followed by the founders moving into production and creative roles elsewhere in the Canadian animation industry.