Jellyfish Pictures

The studio was founded in 2001 by Philip Dobree and Will Rockall, with a team of three artists and one producer.[3] In 2003 they moved to their first studio in Soho, Central London in Poland Street.[4] In 2005, they started their first long form TV series The Story of One.[4] In 2007 they worked on the BBC series Fight For Life winning multiple industry awards, including a BAFTA, RTS and VES award for outstanding visual effects.[4] They continued to expand and grow further, in 2011 working on the long form CGI series Planet Dinosaur for BBC and Discovery Channel.[4] In 2012 the company was nominated for and won several awards for their work on Inside the Human Body.[4] Between 2015 and 2018 the company worked on three Star Wars films for Lucasfilm: Rogue One, A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and Solo: A Star Wars Story. In 2017, Jellyfish Pictures opened Europe’s first wholly "virtual" VFX and animation studio at The Oval, South London, with their first 'virtually' produced project Bitz and Bob, bringing the number of people at Jellyfish up to 200.[3] They created Jellyfish Originals, which produced various original shows like Ivy and the Inklings and Hughman. One year later, Jellyfish also announced their collab with Jollywise to produce an animated series called Stan & Gran.[5][6]

In 2019, they helped produce DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming and won an Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production and nominated for Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production and Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production.

In 2020, a studio division in Sheffield was opened up and overseen by animation director Kevin Spruce, with an animated feature film in production for DreamWorks Animation, Spirit Untamed.[7] Due to the COVID pandemic however, workers had to animate at home.[8]

In 2021, Jellyfish Pictures collaborated further on two DreamWorks films while their main production was Spirit Untamed,[2] they were also in charge of Production Assist support for The Boss Baby: Family Business and the additional Production Assist support on The Bad Guys, while the animation was only produced from DWA Glendale. In 2022, Jellyfish Pictures joined Key Capital Partners over a minority investment, expediting the global scaling of Jellyfish's VFX and animation teams, and advance the development and production of its original kids and family content through Jellyfish Originals.[9] David Patton joined Jellyfish Pictures as CEO in December 2022 while Mark Warburg joined as Chief Operating Officer.[10]

The company worked on a large slate of episodic VFX drama in 2021/2 including The Book of Boba Fett for Lucasfilm and Stranger Things 4 for Netflix and are working on the upcoming series Nautilus. In 2023, their work included films The Creator, Asteroid City and The Last Voyage of the Demeter.

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