Strange Beast
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2008
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About Strange Beast
Strange Beast is a London-based, design-led animation production studio and commercial director roster. Established in January 2008 by Passion Pictures, it brings together directors, animators and mixed-media artists whose individual visual approaches inform both commissioned films and independent work. Its output spans advertising, broadcast idents, music videos and animated shorts.
The studio works across hand-drawn 2D animation, stop-motion, mixed media and CGI, combining character design with art direction and creative direction. Its production services extend from concepts, treatments and storyboards through directing, animation, compositing and finishing. For stop-motion projects, these capabilities include model fabrication as well as animation. This range supports projects with different material and visual requirements, from handmade imagery to digital character work.
Commercial and independent filmmaking
Strange Beast's commercial work includes Gillette Venus's #SayPubic, directed by Sacha Beeley, and the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity appeal film One Step Closer to Home, directed by Tjoff Koong with adam&eveDDB. Its broadcast work includes paper cut-out stop-motion BBC Two idents by Kijek/Adamski, developed with BBC Creative and Superunion.
Music projects include Laura Jayne Hodkin's animated sequences for Coldplay's JUPiTER and GOOD FEELiNGS, produced by Zoe Muslim for the companion film A Film For The Future. Alongside commissioned work, the studio's short-film activity includes Anna Ginsburg's Hag and Harriet Gillian's Your Mountain is Waiting, written by Martha Holmes and supported by the BFI Short Form Animation Fund.
Creative identity
The studio combines animation production with director representation and talent development. Its roster encompasses individual filmmakers and animation collectives, allowing projects to draw on distinct authorial styles across commercial and independent formats.
Following the Passion group's July 2026 demerger, Strange Beast remains within Passion Pictures Animation. It continues as a distinct creative label with its own brand management, executive producers and director roster. Its standalone domain connects to the parent's consolidated animation website.
More about Strange Beast
Leadership
- Kitty Turley is Managing Director / Executive Producer; Zoe Muslim is Executive Producer.
- Sam Gray is identified as Group Head of Communications.
Representation and development
The report identifies Strange Beast as Europe's first commercial animation production house to maintain a fully gender-balanced director roster. It also describes partnerships with the Creative Mentor Network and the She Drew That residency to support underrepresented creators and address unpaid entry pathways into animation.
Representation partnerships
In December 2025, Strange Beast signed Buenos Aires animation studio RUDO for representation in the UK, Europe and US. In January 2026, it added Manchester director-producer duo Baz&Ben of One6th Studio to its roster. These representation relationships connect separately based creative teams with the studio's commercial production activity.
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Where Strange Beast is based
- London, England, United Kingdom
London offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: 33–34 Rathbone Place, London, W1T 1JN, United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0)20 7462 0333 Longstanding creative studio and primary production office in the company's headquarters city. --- **Office** Status: active Address: 2nd Floor, 38 Charterhouse Street, London, EC1M 6JH, United Kingdom Shared group studio facilities used following the 2026 demerger, alongside the retained Rathbone Place production studio.
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