Prickly Pear Animation
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- 2021
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About Prickly Pear Animation
Prickly Pear Animation is an independent animation and visual development studio based in Nicosia, Cyprus. Operational since 2021, it combines development of original animated properties with production services for other animation companies. Its work spans television and streaming series, short films, music videos, commercials, feature films and digital children's entertainment.
The studio specializes in the early creative stages of animation, helping shape projects through pitch bibles, concept art, character and environment design, storyboards and animatics. Its capabilities also include background painting, design supervision, 2D character animation and 2D effects animation. Production approaches encompass digital cutout, hand-drawn animation and hybrid workflows. Alongside pre-production assignments, it undertakes complete production for short-form projects and boutique series.
Original development
Original intellectual property is a central part of the studio's work. The Olive Bunch is a comedy-adventure series developed as a European co-production, with a planned format of 26 eleven-minute episodes. Its development has received Creative Europe MEDIA support, and Jetpack Distribution handles global distribution. The studio's original slate also includes Nimata, an adult-oriented historical fantasy short film, and Kombina, a television series in development that was pitched at Cartoon Forum.
Production services
Prickly Pear Animation's service portfolio demonstrates its focus on both storytelling and visual development. It supplied storyboards for The Ghastly Ghoul, six episodes of Get Rolling with Otis, two episodes of The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe and two shorts in She Creates Change. Its work on Goat Girl includes storyboard supervision and episodic character design, while Cockroaches involved background design and design supervision.
These assignments sit alongside its own development slate, allowing the studio to work across individual production stages as well as broader creative development. Its portfolio brings together episodic storytelling, short-form animation and the visual materials used to establish a project's characters, environments and overall direction.
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Founders and company officers
- Co-founder Katerina Pantela is an animation director, concept designer and character artist. Co-founder Magnus Kråvik is an Emmy-nominated storyboard artist and director. Both brought more than a decade of animation experience to the studio.
- The supplied corporate research lists Pantela as a director and Kråvik as a director and company secretary.
Production model
The studio scales production around a small core team, coordinating a network of animation contractors and freelancers in Cyprus and across Europe. This model supports expansion from development assignments into complete short-film and episodic production.
Creative collaborations
- The Olive Bunch was created by Katerina Pantela and Maria Pavlou and co-produced with the separately operated studios Pixel Giants and Daily Madness.
- Nimata was written by Stavros Pamballis and directed by Pantela and Pamballis, with Pixel Giants as co-producer.
- Development of Kombina involved collaboration with The Hive Studio and Pixel Giants.
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Where Prickly Pear Animation is based
- Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicosia offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: Nikou Georgiou 2, Block B3, Floor 3, Flat/Office 302, 1095 Nicosia, Cyprus Registered premises in the studio's supported headquarters city. --- **Office** Status: active Address: Archiepiskopou Kyprianou Leoforos 112, Nicosia, Cyprus Phone: +357 99 192205 Operational studio premises listed by Film in Cyprus.
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