Red Star 3D
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2004
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About Red Star 3D
Red Star 3D is a British animation and CGI studio creating script-to-screen entertainment for family audiences. Its work spans animated feature films, broadcast television specials, and immersive 3D and 4D films for theme parks, museums, science centres, and other visitor destinations. The studio combines creative development and production services across character-led storytelling, technical animation, visual effects, lighting, rendering, compositing, and final delivery.
Founded in 2004, the company developed an early body of themed-entertainment work that includes stereoscopic attraction films such as The Lost World, Return to the Lost World, Dino Safari, Dracula 4D, Robin Hood 4D, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This background in motion simulation and immersive cinema remains an important part of its production capability.
Film and television
Red Star 3D expanded into long-form animation with its original 2019 feature StarDog and TurboCat. It was the primary UK animation studio on The Amazing Maurice (2022), the Terry Pratchett adaptation released by Sky Cinema and Cantilever Media; the film was longlisted for the BAFTA Film Awards. The studio is also associated with the sequel The Amazing Maurice 2, which is in production and recruitment.
The studio has collaborated with Magic Light Pictures and the BBC on animated holiday specials adapted from the work of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Its credits include Tabby McTat (2023), Tiddler (2024), and The Scarecrows' Wedding (2025/2026), as well as BBC One Christmas idents. Tabby McTat won an International Emmy Award.
Production capability
Its services cover pre-visualisation, storyboarding and layout; character design, modelling, rigging and animation; CFX and simulation work; look development; lighting; and delivery for features, television, and location-based entertainment. Red Star 3D uses an Autodesk Maya, Houdini, and Arnold workflow tracked through Shotgrid, supporting both stylised and photorealistic computer-generated work. The company also undertakes co-production and production-service work for third-party studios.
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Leadership
- Benjamin Paul Smith is co-founder, Creative Director, Producer, and an active director.
- Haris Ahmad is CG Supervisor and Head of Lighting and Rendering; he joined the studio in 2008.
- Jerome Boutroux is Animation Supervisor, and Sophie Vickers is Character Supervisor.
Founding history
Jan Stefan Rogowski co-founded the studio and served as director and company secretary from August 2004 until his death in April 2022; his resignation was formally recorded on 6 April 2022.
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Where Red Star 3D is based
- Electric Works, 3 Concourse Way, Sheffield Digital Campus, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 2BJ, England, United KingdomSheffield, England, United Kingdom
Electric Works
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Single operating headquarters and creative production facility, supporting executive leadership, character rigging, supervisory animation, CG look development, and core pipeline infrastructure.
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