Toon City

Toon City is an independent animation production studio founded in 1993 in the Philippines. Publicly branded as Toon City Animation and operating through Morph Animation, Inc., it provides animation services for television, streaming productions, feature films and direct-to-video projects. The business began as a contractor for Walt Disney Television Animation and has developed from traditional paper-based production into a studio combining hand-drawn animation with digital workflows.

Its production capabilities span classical character animation, paperless 2D animation and digital cut-out work. Artists use Toon Boom Harmony and Adobe Animate alongside traditional animation techniques, supporting projects with different visual styles and production requirements. Character performance, layout, background painting, clean-up, in-betweening, digital ink and paint, and compositing form part of its production offering.

From development to delivery

Toon City supports work across the animation pipeline. Pre-production services include concept development, visual development, character and prop design, storyboarding, animatics and pipeline setup. Production work encompasses character animation, rigging, scene planning, layout and background keys. Post-production services include digital compositing, rendering and preparation of master assets for delivery.

The studio serves broadcasters, streaming platforms, theatrical animation producers and commercial or web-content clients. Its production history includes assignments for Disney, Warner Bros. Animation, Universal Animation Studios, Nickelodeon, Xilam, Bento Box and Rovio Entertainment, covering both episodic and film formats. Across its history, the company has contributed character animation and complete episodes to more than 150 television series, direct-to-video films and feature projects.

International production and original development

The company connects its established Philippine production operation with a Canadian development and production outpost opened in Vancouver in July 2023. This arrangement links creative development and pre-production in Canada with animation execution in the Philippines, while supporting international client relationships and co-production packaging.

Alongside commissioned animation services, Toon City develops original intellectual property and participates in international co-productions. Its Canadian operation supports financing and administration involving Canadian production incentives, extending the studio's activities beyond animation subcontracting into development and production partnerships.