Triggerfish Animation Studios

Founded in Cape Town in 1996, Triggerfish Animation Studios is a South African computer-animation studio producing feature films, television series, specials, shorts, and original intellectual property. The company began as a stop-motion and commercial-animation workshop before restructuring in the mid-2000s around high-end 3D CGI production.

Its work spans original productions, co-productions, and service animation, with capabilities across the full production process: story and visual development, storyboarding, modeling, rigging, layout, character animation, procedural environments and effects, lighting, compositing, and rendering. The studio also develops original stories and character-led projects for film, television, streaming, publishing, and family audiences.

Screen work

Triggerfish’s feature-film credits include Adventures in Zambezia, Khumba, and Seal Team. Its television and streaming work includes Supa Team 4, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, Kiya & the Kimoja Heroes, and the Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 short Aau’s Song.

The studio has also collaborated with Magic Light Pictures and the BBC on animated adaptations of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler books, including Stick Man, Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes, The Highway Rat, Zog, The Snail and the Whale, Tiddler, and The Scarecrows’ Wedding.

International production

Triggerfish operates a multi-hub production model linking its Cape Town base with European production facilities in Galway and Bristol. Its distributed pipeline supports collaboration across sites and combines on-premises and cloud-oriented production infrastructure.

Alongside commercial and original production, Triggerfish supports African animation talent development through initiatives including the Triggerfish Story Lab, Academy, Women Animators Writing Incubator, and Creator Labs. These programmes reflect the studio’s emphasis on Pan-African storytelling and creator development.