Skyship Entertainment

Skyship Entertainment is a Toronto-based children's entertainment and animation studio producing educational programming for preschool audiences. Its work combines music, character-led storytelling and visual learning for young children, parents and educators. The company owns and produces Super Simple, including the flagship Super Simple Songs channel, and creates content across digital video, music, mobile applications and broadcast distribution.

Established in 2015, the studio developed from an educational songwriting project begun in Japan around 2006. The original songs were designed to help young children learn English through simplified language, rhythm, movement and visual reinforcement. Skyship brought Canadian animation production expertise to that foundation, developing a broader catalogue of animated and live-action preschool entertainment.

Production and programming

The studio handles production internally, bringing together writing, character design, storyboarding, animation, puppet fabrication, live-action filming, music recording and post-production. Its capabilities span 2D and 3D animation, stop-motion, puppetry and live action. Original songwriting, musical arrangement, vocal recording, scoring and sound design support its music-led programming alongside narrative series and educational videos.

Skyship's catalogue includes Caitie's Classroom, The Bumble Nums, Carl's Car Wash, Finny The Shark, Sing Along With Tobee and Captain Seasalt and the ABC Pirates. These productions use different combinations of animation, puppetry, live-action presentation and music to explore preschool learning, language, movement and character-based adventures. Other original productions extend into phonics, woodland stories, vehicle themes and short-form puppet programming.

Distribution and audience

Alongside its video channels, the company operates the subscription-based Super Simple App, offering ad-free educational streaming for children. Its activities also encompass music publishing, synchronization licensing, international content syndication, broadcast and video-on-demand distribution, brand licensing and consumer merchandise. This connects the studio's original educational content with audiences across streaming video, children's music, interactive media and family consumer products. Its work serves both general preschool entertainment and early childhood education, including English as a Second Language learning.