Stop Motion Production

Stop-motion in South Korea draws on a craft community that grew up around Seoul's animation studios in Hongdae and Seongsu. The country's main sound stages sit at Busan Cinema Studios and Art Service Studios in Paju. We link shoots with pro puppet makers who build armature-based characters with metal skeletons, silicone or foam bodies, and swap-out faces. Our set builders create scale environments to the standard Korea's feature, K-drama, and commercial work expects.

Capture happens on Dragonframe-equipped rigs that run Sony or Canon mirrorless cameras at 4K and above. We bring steady lighting and focus control. Motion-control camera moves are ready too, for any sequence that needs dollies, pans, or crane motion alongside the frame-by-frame animation.

Our production planning respects the slow pace of stop motion. Most shooting days yield one to five seconds of finished animation. A thirty-second commercial often runs several weeks of capture plus pre-production and post. We support each stage, from storyboarding and character design to fabrication, animation direction, and the final pass through Korea's top VFX studios.

Post work covers rig removal, compositing, and grading. It runs through CJ ENM-affiliated animation studios such as Locus and Bow Animation, plus Westworld and XON Studios for any heavier VFX integration. These are the same teams that finish Hollywood-grade work. Productions claiming the Korea Location Incentive or K-content cash rebates get the paperwork their financiers and TV networks need.