Snafu Pictures
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- Founded
- 2020
- Employees
- 11-50
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About Snafu Pictures
Snafu Pictures is an independent London-based animation and visual effects production studio founded in 2020 by producers Dan Dixon and Paul Schleicher. It develops and produces author-driven stories for children, families and adult audiences, working with distinctive storytellers on animated entertainment and hybrid visual projects. Its work spans original intellectual property, international co-production and creative development for film, television and interactive media.
The studio brings together narrative development, visual concept and world design, storyboarding, editing, voice direction and production oversight. Its capabilities also include CG pipeline and production management, motion capture and creative technology integration. These activities support projects from early story and design work through collaboration with production partners.
Original productions and development
Snafu's debut original animated series, Bad Dinosaurs, premiered on Netflix in 2024. Created by Joel Veitch and directed by Simone Giampaolo, the full-CG family comedy was co-produced with Spanish animation studio Able & Baker. Its first series comprises 24 seven-minute episodes, and the programme reached Netflix's global top 10.
The company subsequently expanded its feature development and co-production slate. In 2026, it joined director Jorge R. Gutiérrez as primary producer of I, Chihuahua, bringing the animated feature to the European Film Market and Cannes Film Market. The project is in financing and pre-production.
Other development projects include Baby's First Crime Spree, a comedy adventure series adapted from books by Jim Whalley and Stephen Collins and co-produced with Ireland's Cardel Entertainment; Beckoning, an animated science-fiction feature with Serbia's Bauk Pictures; and the animated feature adaptation The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil. Its family slate also includes Poles Apart.
Snafu combines a central creative and executive team with international production partnerships. Story development, visual development, incubation and UK production oversight are coordinated from London, while overseas animation work is undertaken through project-specific co-production agreements.
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Leadership and experience
- Co-founders Dan Dixon and Paul Schleicher serve as executive producers. Before Snafu, Dixon produced independent live-action genre shorts and worked with major animation and VFX companies. Schleicher spent two decades supervising VFX and animation and previously managed Axis Studios' London facility.
- Chairman Anthony Charles Orsten previously led Abu Dhabi's twofour54 media hub and held leadership roles at MTV, Paramount Pictures and The Imaginarium.
- The creative and production team includes Joe Burns as Head of Story, Natt Tapley as Head Writer and creative development lead, and Ross Main as Production Manager. Tapley is described as a BAFTA-winning writer and voice director; Main previously served as Head of Production at Axis Studios.
Operating model
The company describes its approach as an agile, artist-friendly incubator. Its permanent executive and creative team expands with project-based contract artists and production crews during active productions.
Development support
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil received backing from the BFI Short Form Animation Fund and was pitched at Cartoon Movie.
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Where Snafu Pictures is based
- Fitzroy House, 18–22 Ashwin Street / Abbot Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL / E8 3DP, United KingdomLondon, England, United Kingdom
London Creative Studio & Headquarters
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Operating creative studio and overall headquarters, supporting storyboarding, script development, visual development, incubation and UK production oversight. The statutory registered address at 39 Long Acre is maintained at the production accounting firm's premises.
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