Sun & Moon Animation

Sun & Moon Animation Award-winning animation that’s packed with character. animation with character. Sun & Moon is a creative led animation production studio based in Bristol UK.
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we are passionate about bringing characters to life through our craft, engaging audiences and raising smiles. Founded in 2008 by traditional 2D animators Dylan Shipley and Louis Jones, the studio is focused on producing awesome animation that comes from the heart. We are forward thinking, problem solvers using our craft to offer the best tailor made solutions. Our aim is to engage, inform and insp

ire through cheerful and charming content. We love to tell stories and raise smiles, injecting everything we do with fun and the passion we have for animation. Comprising of a team of highly skilled and experienced directors, animators and designers, we cover all bases from script to screen in producing bespoke, high quality moving imagery. We work closely with long term established partners in script writing, sound production and voice over to deliver a full service package and outstanding content. There is something truly magical about creating characters, inventing worlds and bringing the inanimate to life. With great animation skills, comes great responsibility- we only use our powers for good!

Are any of you lovely folks heading to Gamescom this month? Co-Founder Dylan Shipley will be attending and showcasing 'E...
05/08/2025

Are any of you lovely folks heading to Gamescom this month? Co-Founder Dylan Shipley will be attending and showcasing 'Enigma Ocularis,' our new anime-inspired eye-controlled Horror game! We're so proud of what we've been able to achieve and look forward to sharing more of it with those at the event soon! 😱🎮👀

BTW, if you see Dylan about, don't be shy, say hello! ✨

01/08/2025

Happy Fan Art Friday! 💃🪩💗

In honour of the theme "art inspired by music," we're sharing a very special video by the wonderful Zack Ashton! He went above and beyond, approaching the prompt from a different perspective.

"This is a bit loose to the prompt, but my car doesn't have Bluetooth so I started to listen to CDs I borrowed from my dad."

If you guys had to choose, what would be your go-to CD rotation for a road trip? 👀

31/07/2025

is here, once again, and as part of Sun & Moon's Staff Favourites, we're hearing from our brilliant Senior Production Coordinator Grace Harris. They've handpicked Life is Strange: Double Exposure. 😍✨

On why it means so much to Grace: "I love the LiS Double exposure trailer and how it brings the world alive with it's design and animation! The backgrounds and character designs look so incredible, and the animation is gorgeous! Makes me so proud of the team that worked so hard to make it."

29/07/2025

It's the final week of July and we're still celebrating Disability Pride Month here at Sun & Moon. We're highlighting another SpecialEffect title we've recently turned into a mobile app, the adorable, and oftentimes super mischievous Badger Badger!

What more do you need to know about this game? Other than you'll get to help Badger protect her home from Mole, and all the other annoying critters, who keep disturbing her slumber!

You can download it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SpecialEffect.BadgerBadger

Happy Monday, folks! This week we have a silly Q&A as part of our series where we answered some of YOUR burning question...
28/07/2025

Happy Monday, folks! This week we have a silly Q&A as part of our series where we answered some of YOUR burning questions about the animation industry! 🧠👀

We absolutely LOVE receiving questions like this, as it shows the entire nature of animation. We're just kids at heart, fortunate enough to be able to make cartoons for a living! So naturally, we don't take ourselves too seriously, but... we did think long and hard about this one.

Can you guess who from our team answered it? 😆🦆✨

This week the Doctor is back, and helping us celebrate Fan Art Friday! 💥‼️😎 We've mentioned this time and time again, bu...
25/07/2025

This week the Doctor is back, and helping us celebrate Fan Art Friday! 💥‼️😎

We've mentioned this time and time again, but we LOVE Doctor Who, and this cracking piece is from director and showrunner Sam Shaw.

"Here's a dusty 2011ish piece I found on my even dustier Tumblr account. Complete with an artist signature, as was the style at the time."

*accepts piece of art like an offering from the gods, nods in approval*

24/07/2025

Another at the studio, and we're highlighting our staff favourites! This week we're hearing from Alderney Middleton, Head of Production. She's chosen Regenerators for BBC Bitesize. 🌍

On why she adores it so much: "It was super exciting to be working on a project focussed on the green curriculum for school kids. The idea was a hopeful spin on climate change and solutions led to empower future generations, an idea I absolutely loved and our director Dan did so well leading and bringing to life. We had a wonderful cast of new VO talent that allowed us to work authentically with our voices and let them play with the script to adapt to how they would speak on their vlog. The result is lovely, charming and also got projected onto a building at COP, which was an extra moment of pride for the team!"

23/07/2025

Super-duper excited that Passenger will be playing at the upcoming Women x Film Festival 2025! We're massive fans of the work they do championing female filmmakers and can't wait for audiences in Darlington to experience our short in September.

🗓️ Saturday 20th September
🕑 14:15pm

More information about the festival and programme can be found here: https://www.riannepictures.com/meaning-in-motion

22/07/2025

July is Disability Pride Month, a very important time here at Sun & Moon, and we're highlighting some of the SpecialEffect games we've recently turned into mobile apps! Today we wanted to focus on the action-packed CLASSIC EyeDrive. 💥

Crank up the accelerator in this fan-favourite racing game! Featuring three game modes - you can enter the Tournament to unlock tracks and new worlds, take a Time Trial to test your speed on Sol Base, Dorin IV or La Cuna, or try Orb Chase to collect as many orbs as you can on each track. 🤯😎🏁

Fancy giving it a go? You can download it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SpecialEffect.EyeDrive

21/07/2025

We hope you all had a lovely weekend!

There's some exciting news to share today! 👀 NEW episodes of Maddie + Triggs just dropped! You can watch them now on CBeebies, BBC iPlayer, RTÉjr, and RTÉ Player! 🤩✨

Huge kudos to our master editor and compositor Zuhair Mehrali, who created this stunning piece. We couldn't resist sharing in celebration of the occasion. ⭐

What a glorious Fan Art Friday!With our ongoing theme of "art inspired by music" we're showcasing another wonderful piec...
18/07/2025

What a glorious Fan Art Friday!

With our ongoing theme of "art inspired by music" we're showcasing another wonderful piece by Tabby Caton-Rose! 🎶🎸💃

"This is some art of IU, a South Korean singer! I made this as part of a special interest zine."

Stunning, 17/10 absolutely no notes. Adding all the IU songs to our playlists NOW. 🔥

17/07/2025

This week as part of Sun & Moon's Staff Favourites, a series where we ask staff here at the studio their most cherished projects, is Creative Director Dan Keeble's pick: the Life Is Strange Nintendo Launch trailer.

"The Life is Strange animations we've done are among my favourite. We get to work with crazy talented people and work on a property that has a loyal fanbase that really cares about the characters. Each piece is very cinematic and full of emotion so it's fun to stretch our story telling.

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