Virgin Media

For Virgin Media, we worked alongside director Conor Finnegan, who led direction and art direction on this live-action shoot one of our heaviest productions, blending real talent with our own puppetry work as rod puppets, all built and filmed in house at our studios.

We designed and built the sets, puppets, and props from the ground up, then brought them together on set alongside live performers, a different kind of challenge to a fully stop-motion production, with our rod puppets needing to hold their own in the same frame as real actors, under live-action lighting and blocking rather than frame-by-frame control.

Filming the whole shoot in-house meant our team was hands-on across every stage from the build through to the puppeteering itself on the day giving us direct control over how the puppets moved and performed alongside the cast, rather than handing that work off once the props left the workshop.

It's a project that shows a different side of what we do: not just stop motion, but practical puppetry and craft built to work within a live action production at scale.