Wonderlust

Wonderlust is a Halifax-based boutique design and animation studio founded in 2015 by owner and Executive Creative Director Ryan Rumbolt. The studio creates narrative-led commercial and editorial work, pairing expressive illustration with animation for agencies, brands and public-interest organizations.

Its practice centers on 2D animation, from hand-drawn, frame-by-frame character work to motion graphics, compositing and mixed-media production. Wonderlust develops projects from early concept and creative direction through storyboarding, visual development, style framing, character design and final animation.

Capabilities

• Concept development and creative direction
• Storyboarding, visual development and style framing
• Character design and illustration
• 2D and mixed-media animation production
• Motion graphics and compositing
• Commercial production for agencies and global brands

The studio adapts its visual approach to each brief, producing work that can range from whimsical character-led worlds to streamlined vector explainers. Its output includes broadcast commercials, brand films, music videos, educational shorts and title sequences.

Wonderlust's credits include Destination Canada's “This Is Canada Nice,” Air Canada's “Together for the Holidays,” Esso's “The Place Between Places,” Gatorade's “Gatorade Sweat,” TED-Ed's “The Science of Surfing,” Scotiabank Mobile Banking and Blue Moon's “Juicy IPA.” The studio has also produced independent animated work including Pups 'n Planes and Wonderlust Explores Some Sottsass.

Wonderlust works across advertising and commercial production, broadcast and digital media, technology, healthcare and wellness, banking and finance, corporate communications, and non-profit or public-interest campaigns. It is an independent Canadian studio operating as Wonderlust Media Inc.