Yamination Studios

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Yamination Studios is an animation company specialising in stop motion animation in the heart of Birmingham. Taking its name from yam yam, a term referring to Black Country folk and their crazily cryptic vernacular, the studios are the embodiment of founder Drew Roper. A multi-award winning stop motion director, producer, and animator, he’s behind (almost) everything that goes out of their swinging doors. The studio covers all aspects of production within its walls, thriving on creativity and innovation. Since its creation in 2009, Yamination has been up to its ears in developing shorts, pilots, TV commercials and promos for clients including Coca-Cola, Cravendale and Sky Arts. In fact, when it comes to bringing little things to life, this place does it with buckets of passion, character and – most of the time – plasticine.

26/08/2026

PROOF, real hands…here’s our behind the scenes of the Enterprise Telstra TVC!!

Thank you to everyone who made this happen✨🙏

Big shout out to our amazing Yam Fam once again 🙌

Here’s some BTS from the build ➡️Ai you say? No, it’s real hands! LOOK 👀 Our hand(s)made craftsmanship were put to good ...
22/08/2026

Here’s some BTS from the build ➡️
Ai you say? No, it’s real hands! LOOK 👀
Our hand(s)made craftsmanship were put to good use here under the creative vision of Johnny Kelly
This was the first commercial shot in our amazing new home!!

Our amazing art department :
Fung Ye Tsang

Tommy Grainger
Hannah Camarra

Anastasia Papadopoulou
Jonathan Garvey
Surinder Singh
Floz
Carla Horton
Michael Price
Jnr: Leo Wright Studios
Runner : Jack Strood

📸 : Rida Suleri-Johnson

A looong resin test pour…

The real one was done ✔️

Lots of sanding foam!

Time to make room for our moving train 🚝

The teeniest lit 💡 laptops everrrr!

Testing 💡

Laser printing 🔥

Make shift art dept during the move 😅

Set dressing queens 💛

22/08/2026

Ai you say? No, it’s real hands! LOOK 👀
Our hand(s)made craftsmanship were put to good use here under the creative vision of
This was the first commercial shot in our amazing new home!!

Our human hands teamed up with the amazing hands, hands & hands for THE hands, on a playful stop-motion ode to real partnership and possibility!

Animated by the talented hands & 👏

Familiarly voiced by Dave McCormack (Bluey’s DAD!!!) and backed by music from the talented & lovely (Fleet Foxes), the film celebrates the joy of collaboration in all its handcrafted glory.

A huge thank you to those above and our ✨amazing crew ✨ who helped bring it to life. (See comments for credits)

📸 : by the talented lady

Ai you say? No, it’s real hands! LOOK 👀 Our hand(s)made craftsmanship were put to good use here under the creative visio...
22/08/2026

Ai you say? No, it’s real hands! LOOK 👀
Our hand(s)made craftsmanship were put to good use here under the creative vision of Johnny Kelly
This was the first commercial shot in our amazing new home!!

Our human hands teamed up with the amazing Nexus Studios hands, +61 hands & Bear Meets Eagle On Fire hands for THE Telstra hands, on a playful stop-motion ode to real partnership and possibility!

Familiarly voiced by Dave McCormack Dave McCormack (Bluey’s DAD!!!) and backed by music from the talented & lovely caseywescott (Fleet Foxes), the film celebrates the joy of collaboration in all its handcrafted glory.

A huge thank you to those above and our ✨amazing crew ✨ who helped bring it to life. (See comments for credits)

📸 : by the talented lady

Over 9600 minutes with 80 paintbrushes & 4 printersover 450 player models 11 painters Loads of paint & a crazy amount o...
20/01/2026

Over 9600 minutes
with 80 paintbrushes
& 4 printers
over 450 player models
11 painters
Loads of paint
& a crazy amount of very intricately painted 2.2cm length cleats (boot for all you non NFL fans)

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New found NFL Fans! Go Dallas Cowboys Go!

The wonderful director brought us a challenge (as always) and as we love to tinker with our 3D printers this was one we gladly accepted.

A massive shoutout to our talented crew of painters/sculptors/printers/packers/set builders/set dressers for this epic job and an equal shoutout to the team who delivered us the files ready to slice and support all those beautiful behinds of Dak Shepherd and his team mates as well as the team that shot and animated this very cool commercial Go team go 🏈💪!

20/01/2026

Over 9600 minutes
with 80 paintbrushes
over 450 player models
4 printers
11 painters
Loads of paint
& a crazy amount of very intricately painted 2.2cm length cleats (boot for all you non NFL fans)

=

New found NFL Fans! Go Dallas Cowboys Go!

The wonderful director brought us a challenge (as always) and as we love to tinker with our 3D printers this was one we gladly accepted.

A massive shoutout to our talented crew of painters/sculptors/printers/packers/set builders/set dressers for this epic job and an equal shoutout to the team who delivered us the files ready to slice and support all those beautiful behinds of Dak Shepherd and his team mates as well as the team that shot and animated this very cool commercial Go team go 🏈💪!

20/01/2026

Hundreds of miniature American football players models and a couple of big sets for () big idea to bring message of taking a closer look to life!

Baylor Scott & White teamed up with Dak Prescott to challenge us to take a closer look. For this year’s My Cause My Cleats, when most players planned to go big, Dak’s gameday shoes went small. Really small. This was their way to encourage fans to take a closer look and take charge of their health with early screenings.

Those marketing gurus always like to bring us a challenge and for the Diet Coke x Tom Daley ‘This is my Taste’ campaign...
06/01/2026

Those marketing gurus always like to bring us a challenge and for the Diet Coke x Tom Daley ‘This is my Taste’ campaign we were tasked with designing bespoke Crochet Hooks.

An array of fabulous things have been designed and printed on our printers, albeit we are not usually hook suppliers & with these items needing to be used for a purpose and being put to work with crocheters hands…it was a rather fun yet challenging one :) Good news for us is our art department are all avid crocheters✨ Score!
So many of our talented yamfam supplied their crocheting 🧶 intellect when it came to designing and making the perfect hook.

We digitally sculpted a design that would showcase the logo perfectly to sit nicely in the hand sizing it accordingly to Tom’s specifics to make his bag. Then tested out multiple different types of resin and printing techniques making sure the hook would bend enough without breaking. Tried out different painting finishes to give it that nice aluminium can shine & voila the was born 👏



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