Saturday Animation Studio

Saturday Animation Studio is a Montreal-based animation studio focused on children’s and family television, feature films and original intellectual property. Established by Digital Dimension Entertainment Group in 2020, it combines CGI and 3D character animation with a real-time production pipeline built around Epic Games’ Unreal Engine.

The studio provides production services from early visual development through finished animation. Its capabilities include concept art, character design, storyboarding, animatics, pre-visualization, asset creation and environment modeling, alongside lighting, rendering, matte painting and compositing. Creative consulting and transmedia development extend its work beyond individual screen productions.

Animation for television and streaming

Saturday’s reported portfolio includes animation for Pretzel and the Puppies, Sadie Sparks, The Beachbuds and Helen’s Little School, as well as the “Mukudzei” episode of Disney+ anthology Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire. It also co-produced Mighty Mike with TeamTO. Its production relationships include NBCUniversal, Disney Channel, DreamWorks, Cyber Group Studios and Superprod.

The studio’s technical roots predate its formal launch. Members of its core team worked on integrating Unreal Engine into episodic television production, culminating in Zafari in 2017. That earlier work forms part of the production history behind Saturday’s subsequent focus on real-time animation.

Original worlds and franchises

Alongside commissioned work and co-productions, the studio develops in-house properties through its Saturday Originals banner. These projects are conceived for adaptation across television, games, toys and digital comics, giving the studio an operating model that combines client production with original franchise development.

Its development slate includes Chase & Catch Ultra Crime Detectives, an action-comedy cyberpunk adventure, and the science-fiction project Aiko and the Masters of Time. Its original publishing activity also includes the fantasy sports comic Spellcasters MLM (Major League Magic). Together, these projects reflect the studio’s interest in building characters and settings that can support stories across several media.