| Jellyfish Pictures | |
| Type: | Subsidiary |
| Industry: | Visual effects, Computer-generated imagery, Feature animation |
| Locations: | 4 |
| Area Served: | London, Mumbai, Toronto, Sheffield |
| Members: | 500+ (as of Aug 2023)[1] |
| Hq Location Country: | England |
| Key People: | Phil Dobree (Founder)[2] David Patton (CEO) Mark Warburg (COO) Dave Wickman (CFO) Archie Donato (MD, Animation) Natalie Llewellyn (MD, Jellyfish Originals) Phil Greenlow (MD, VFX) Luke Dodd (Director of VFX & Animation) |
| Divisions: | Jellyfish Originals, Animation, VFX |
Jellyfish Pictures is a British VFX and animation company specializing in the creation of digital visual effects and animation.
The company was founded in 2001 by Philip Dobree and Will Rockall, with a team of three artists and one producer,[3] moving to their first studio in Soho, Central London in Poland Street in 2003.[4] In 2005, they started their first long form TV series The Story of One, following this with work on the BBC series Fight For Life in 2007, for which they won multiple industry awards including a BAFTA, RTS and VES award for 'Outstanding Visual Effects. Over the next few years they continued to expand, working on the long form CGI series Planet Dinosaur for the BBC and Discovery Channel in 2011, followed by multiple nominations and wins for their work on Inside the Human Body in 2012. In 2017, Jellyfish Pictures launched its own original content division, Jellyfish Originals - focused on the development, distribution, rights management, financing and commercialisation of original animated properties.
In 2022, Jellyfish Pictures has undergone rapid growth in recent years as the studio joined Key Capital Partners over a minority investment, expediting the global scaling of their VFX and animation teams, and advance the development and production of its original kids and family content through Jellyfish Originals.[5] [6] David Patton joined Jellyfish Pictures as CEO in December 2022 while Mark Warburg joined as COO.[7] [8] The on-location studio locations have also expanded significantly, with a studio division opening in Sheffield in 2020 (overseen by animation director Kevin Spruce), and a new Mumbai studio recently opening in 2023. Operations in Canada were announced in June 2024.
| width=245 | Title | width=125 | Release date | Studio(s) | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Story of 1 | 2005 | Documentary | ||||
| Fight for Life | July 9, 2007 | TV series Documentary 2008 winner Bafta special effects prize[9] | ||||
| Planet Dinosaur | September 14, 2011 | BBC Discovery Channel ZDF | [10] | TV animated series Documentary | ||
| Doctor Who | November 23, 2013 | BBC One BBC Wales | TV series Day of the Doctor Special Additional VFX | |||
| Your Inner Fish | 2014 | Tangled Bank Studios PBS | [11] | TV animated series Documentary | ||
| Floogals | January 15, 2016 | [12] [13] | TV animated series | |||
| Black Mirror | October 2016 | TV series Hated in the Nation only | ||||
| November 6, 2017 | TV animated series | |||||
| Bitz & Bob | March 12, 2018 | |||||
| The Innocents | August 24, 2018 | Netflix New Pictures | [15] | TV series | ||
| Watchmen | October 20, 2019 | TV series Limited | ||||
| December 3, 2019 | [16] | TV animated special Production services | ||||
| Gangs of London | April 23, 2020 | Sky Atlantic Pulse Films Sister Pictures Sky Studios NBCUniversal Global Distribution | TV series Series finale only | |||
| White Lines | May 15, 2020 | TV series | ||||
| Hanna | July 3, 2020 | TV series Season 2 only | ||||
| Sex Education | September 17, 2021 | TV series Season 3 only | ||||
| The Book of Boba Fett | December 29, 2021 | TV miniseries | ||||
| This Is Going to Hurt | February 8, 2022 | Sister Pictures Terrible Productions AMC Studios BBC | Miniseries | |||
| The Baby | April 24, 2022 | HBO Sister Pictures Sky Studios Proverbial Pictures | TV series | |||
| Prehistoric Planet | May 23, 2022 | Apple TV+ BBC | Documentary Concept art only VFX by Moving Picture Company | |||
| Stranger Things | May 27, 2022 | Netflix 21 Laps Entertainment Monkey Massacre | TV series Season 4 only | |||
| Wereworld | TBA | Netflix Netflix Animation Lime Pictures | TV animated series | |||
| Ivy and the Inklings | Bomanbridge Media | [17] | ||||
| Hughman | ||||||
| Stan & Gran | Jollywise | [18] | ||||
| Battle of the Bugs | Alpha Group | [19] |
| width=195 | Title | width=110 | Release date | Studio(s) | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 13, 2015 | [20] | With Prime Focus World, Baseblack, Panton Creative, Doc & A Soc, Peerless Camera Company and BUF | ||||
| December 16, 2016 | Main VFX from Industrial Light & Magic Additional VFX with Ubisoft Hybride, Ghost VFX, Whiskytree, Atomic Fiction, Scanline VFX, and Raynault VFX. | |||||
| December 15, 2017 | [21] | Main VFX from Industrial Light & Magic Additional VFX with Ubisoft Hybride, One of Us, Base FX, Rodeo FX, Ghost VFX, Virutos, Animatrik Film Design, Exceptional Minds, Important Looking Pirates, and Yannix. | ||||
| May 25, 2018 | [22] | Main VFX from Industrial Light & Magic Additional VFX with Ubisoft Hybride, Raynault VFX, Tippet Studio, Exceptional Minds, Virutos and Lola/VFX | ||||
| Captive State | March 15, 2019 | [23] | ||||
| July 2, 2021 | Uncredited | |||||
| July 9, 2021 | ||||||
| July 16, 2021 | ||||||
| Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical | December 2, 2022 | Netflix TriStar Pictures Working Title Films The Roald Dahl Story Company |
| width=195 | Title | width=100 | Release date | Studio(s) | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trolls World Tour | April 10, 2020 | Universal Pictures DreamWorks Animation | Marketing custom animation services with Minimo VFX | |||
| Spirit Untamed | June 4, 2021 | [24] [25] | Production services Additional animation services by 88 Pictures | |||
| July 2, 2021 | Asset production services | |||||
| The Bad Guys | April 22, 2022 | Additional asset production services | ||||
| Kung Fu Panda 4 | March 8, 2024 | |||||
| The Twits | 2025 | [26] | Production services | |||
| width=35px | Year ! | width=265px | Film ! | width=250px | Category ! | width=250px | Recipient(s) ! | width=100px | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | [27] | Best Animated Special Production | DreamWorks Animation | ||||||
| Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production | Manuel Reyes Halaby, Cristiana Covone, Koya Masubuchi, Jean Claude Nouchy, Dustin Henning | rowspan=3 | |||||||
| Andrew Muir | |||||||||
| 2022 | Spirit Untamed[28] | Best Storyboarding | Gary Graham |