BLUE ZOO

Animation Studio

London


Tom Box, Blue Zoo, London

Tom Box

Tom Box is co-founder and joint managing director of Blue Zoo, multiple Emmy and BAFTA winning Animation Studio. Tom has been the driving force behind pushing the studio forwards, both technically and culturally, spearheading Blue Zoo to become the first major animation studio in the world to become a certified B Corp. Tom is also very active with skills and future talent development, acting as Chair of the ScreenSkills Animation Skills Council, NextGen Skills Academy, Manchester Animation Festival and is a founding director of ACCESS:VFX.

Blue Zoo Animation Studio is a British animation studio known for producing children's television series, commercials and, short films. Founded in 2000 the studio has gone on to win numerous BAFTAs and in 2021 won two Daytime Emmy awards. They have also previously won the Best Places to Work in TV survey by Broadcast and Best Companies Group.

Some of the more well-known children's shows the studio has produced are Alphablocks, Numberblocks, Digby Dragon, Miffy's Adventures Big and Small, The Adventures of Paddington, and It's Pony.

The company operates from a studio in Fitzrovia, London, where they have a team of over 200 artists. It later expanded to a second studio, adjacent to its main studio, thats 'dedicated to episodic 2D animation.'

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