Sun & Moon
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- Founded
- 2008
- Employees
- 11-50
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About Sun & Moon
Sun & Moon Studios is a Bristol-based animation production and accessible game-development studio founded in 2008. Working across 2D character animation, 3D modelling and interactive entertainment, it develops work for broadcast, commercial, educational and assistive-technology contexts.
The studio provides end-to-end animation production, from writing, design, storyboarding and animatics through rigging, animation, compositing, sound and delivery. Its game-development practice covers design, engineering and art for web, mobile and desktop projects, with particular experience in eye-gaze and eye-tracking accessibility. It also develops original IP through show bibles, pitch decks, concept work and proof-of-concept teasers, and runs professional Toon Boom Harmony training courses.
Character animation and production craft
Sun & Moon is known for digital cut-out character animation and advanced Toon Boom Harmony rigging, including work with the platform’s Master Controller features. Its animation portfolio spans preschool and children’s television, educational content, advertising, trailers and feature-film sequences.
Selected work includes:
- Doctor Who: The Macra Terror, for which it delivered full 2D character animation for the restoration of four missing episodes.
- Kit & Pup, the preschool series for BBC Worldwide and CBeebies.
- Maddie + Triggs, for which it provided layout and character rigging.
- The 2D Fun-Land Farms commercial sequence and end-credits artwork for Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.
- Hand-drawn marketing trailers and cinematics for Life is Strange: True Colors.
Accessible interactive work
Alongside animation, the studio creates games designed around inclusive play. Its projects include Eye Can Fly, an eye-gaze-controlled flying adventure; Open Drive, an accessible racing title developed with SpecialEffect; and the web-based Eye Gaze Games suite. It has also developed original game concepts including Enigma Ocularis.
Sun & Moon operates as an independent UK studio, combining production services with original-property development and specialist animation training.
More about Sun & Moon
Leadership and recognition
- Dylan Shipley and Louis Jones founded the studio in 2008. Both are directors and persons with significant control of Sun & Moon Studios Limited.
- Eye Can Fly was recognised through Creative England’s Future Leader designation and was a finalist at the 2015 TIGA Games Industry Awards.
- The BBC Bitesize series Lightening Jelly was shortlisted for a Children’s Television BAFTA in 2018.
Technical practice
The studio’s advanced Toon Boom Harmony rigs and production pipelines led Toon Boom to consult Sun & Moon during the software’s continuing development. Sun & Moon also delivers four-day masterclasses for professional animators, riggers and studio teams covering asset building, advanced rigging and animation pipelines.
Working model
The company describes a hybrid and remote working model, including a 32-hour working week, while retaining its core management and client hub in Bristol.
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Where Sun & Moon is based
- Unit 2.5 / Unit 2.7, Paintworks, Bath Road, Arnos Vale, Bristol, BS4 3EH, United KingdomBristol, England, United Kingdom
Bristol office
HeadquartersPrimary creative and production premises at the Paintworks creative hub.
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