Shotopop
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2007
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About Shotopop
Shotopop is an independent animation, illustration and design studio based in London. Founded in 2007 by Casper Franken and Carin Standford, it creates visual storytelling for advertising, entertainment and digital media. Its work combines character development, art direction and animation to build distinctive visual worlds for international campaigns.
The studio works across traditional hand-drawn cel animation, 3D CGI, motion graphics, digital illustration and tactile design. Its production services extend from concept art, storyboards and animatics through character development, rigging, modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering and compositing. Alongside moving-image production, Shotopop develops brand identities, visual systems, packaging and environmental installations, allowing a campaign’s imagery to extend across different formats.
Animation and visual storytelling
Shotopop’s portfolio spans sportswear, consumer products, technology, music and games. Its Nike work includes Nike Rise, Nike Steel Roses and Nike City Attack, while its collaboration with Asics and Foot Locker produced the anime-inspired The Sun and the Snake. Other projects include animated shorts accompanying Baby Keem’s The Melodic Blue, character animation for Spotify, and commercial work for Adidas, Apple, Pepsi and Johnnie Walker.
Game-related projects include work for Riot Games, Marvel and Second Dinner, Supercell, and Blizzard Entertainment with Porsche. These productions draw on the studio’s combination of illustration, character design and animation for campaigns across broadcast, digital and social channels. In 2026, Shotopop also collaborated with Formula E and New Era on a neon Koi-themed visual identity and bespoke animation for the Tokyo E-Prix.
International collaboration
Shotopop combines its London production base with international commercial representation. Psyop began representing the studio exclusively in the United States and Canada in 2022. In June 2026, Shotopop joined the Psyop Independent Media Group while retaining operational independence and gaining access to the network’s production infrastructure. BA-REPS represents its illustration and design work in the United Kingdom, and VO Talents Agency represents it in France.
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Creative leadership
The research identifies co-founders Casper Franken and Carin Standford as creative directors, alongside Head of Production Donna Marie Howard and Animation Director Dipankar Sengupta.
Production approach
The studio emphasizes early creative collaboration and expands its core team with freelance animators and technical specialists for larger commercial productions. Its work includes motion capture; the Spotify Dance campaign combined 3D character design with motion capture production at Pinewood Studios.
Early history
Shotopop began working from a converted shipping container alongside the River Thames before moving through subsequent East London studios.
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Where Shotopop is based
- London, England, United Kingdom
London offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: The Fisheries, 1 Mentmore Terrace, London, E8 3PN, United Kingdom Email: info@shotopop.com Phone: +44 20 8533 9080 Office webpage: https://shotopop.com/about Overall company headquarters and primary production studio, housing creative leadership, production managers, illustrators and animators. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Former studio in Lower Clapton; precise premises and operating dates are not supplied. --- **Waterfront Studios** Status: inactive / historical Former East London studio; precise premises and operating dates are not supplied.
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