Bristol independent animation studio A Productions has moved into additional space for its growing workforce to create content for HBO Max.
The internationally recognised studio has a strong track record for producing award-winning children’s content for broadcasters and streamers and its 150-strong team is continuing to expand to fulfil its growing roster of productions. 
The studio works with some of the world’s most iconic characters, with notable productions including JoJo & Gran Gran for CBeebies – the first UK pre-school animation to centre around a black British family – Love Monster and The Tweenies for CBeebies, and The Monster at the End of This Story, Sesame Street’s first-ever animated special for HBO Max.
The new studio, on the fourth floor of 15 Colston Street, pictured right, is being used to produce animations for HBO Max while A Productions’ existing studio in Old Market, pictured below, remains home to its CBeebies productions.
Last month A Productions, together with Sesame Workshop – the non-profit educational organisation behind Sesame Street – won a Royal Television Society (RTS) West of England award in the children’s and animation category for The Monster at the End of This Story, with JoJo & Gran Gran nominated in the same category.
The Monster at the End of This Story, pictured bottom, is based on Sesame Workshop’s all-time best-selling picture book The Monster at the End of This Book. It is the official special of Sesame Street’s 51st season, which is currently available on HBO Max and coming soon to US channel PBS.
Established in 1985, A Productions is headed by joint managing directors and founders Bafta-nominated Mark Taylor and Katherine McQueen. 
It has worked with many leading UK and US broadcasters and streamers and is one of the few UK animation production companies to produce content for the US.
Katherine McQueen said: “We are thrilled to have expanded into a second studio in Bristol, a city renowned as a hotbed of production for TV and film as well as being home to an incredible wider creative community.
“This expansion will support our hugely talented and growing team, our strong pipeline of productions and allow us to invest further in new projects in development.”
She said A Productions prided itself on its creativity, the versatility of its design capabilities and content and its expertise in integrating animation with live action.
“It’s also hugely important to us that diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our ethos and approach,” she added.
“We are very proud to have picked up a win and nomination in the RTS West of England Awards recently. Both shows were produced during the upheaval of lockdown, and we owe huge thanks to our staff and creative teams who adapted to working from home and continued to deliver content to such a fantastic standard.” 
A Productions is also part of the team that picked up two Daytime Emmy Award nominations this year, as well as scooping an accolade at the Broadcast Awards together with BBC Children’s In-House Productions.
The studio, which offers bespoke training supporting people into the industry through non-traditional routes, specialises in traditional and digital 2D stop frame, CGI, AFX, Flash and live action, both in studio and on location.
The team works on a full slate ranging from short films to series production to interstitials and idents, as well as new projects in development.
