About Us
Big Bad Boo Studios is an award-winning, creative-led animation and production studio, originating, developing, producing and distributing compelling kids content. Our shows, books and games are entertaining, educational, and multicultural. Our programs air in over 120 countries and 15 languages. We also operate our own streaming service in Oznoz , offering family programming in 10+ languages.
With studios locations in Vancouver, and Vienna, we are proud to work with a roster of international broadcasters and local partners alike. Our animation facility in beautiful Yaletown offers a full range of animation production services for clients and original shows alike. We leverage European and Canadian incentives, enabling us to produce shows at competitive rates, making us an ideal co-production partner in the global landscape.
We pride ourselves on our commitment to gender equity as well as support a strong Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) mantra. We focus our efforts to use media to raise globally-minded children. Our offices also have a green production and sutainability directive, named GREENCAP, which ensures our pipelines are efficient, environmentally conscious and mindful.
Original IP Development
Big Bad Boo Studios prides itself on creating original IP in-house. Having created seven original productions to date, our team is well versed in Ideation, character development, character designs, story development, bible creation and pitching new series ideas. To date, we have been finalist or won first place at many international pitch contests, including the Mip Junior Pitch Contest in Cannes, Central and Eastern European Animation Forum, The Children’s Media Conference in Sheffield and Cartoon Forum. We understand what broadcasters are looking for and tailor our shows to hit the right notes for the brand. We have worked with world-class networks such as Hulu, Netflix, CBC Kids, Disney, Al Jazeera Children’s, TVOkids, and many others.
Production
At Big Bad Boo Studios we command the entire 2D animation production pipeline under our roof. We not only create, develop and finance new IP, films and TV series, we also raise funding and produce the shows in-house. Our pipeline includes idea generation, script writing, character designs, background designs, prop designs, storyboarding, editing, animatics, animation, voice records, music, composition, mix and delivery. We always keep story and characters in mind and we are proud to have produced eight animated children’s series so far. We welcome coproductions with like-minded producers from around the world.
Featured Properties
Balloon Girl
On a beautiful day at the park, a little girl proudly carries a big red balloon everywhere she goes. Elsewhere in the park, a baby cries loudly in his pram, and his mother tries in vain to soothe him. When the baby sees the girl’s balloon, he stops crying, but then...
16 Hudson ER
Welcome to 16 Hudson ER, a series of Public Service Announcements about Health, Hygiene, and Safety. This series originally started as a response to Covid-19 and educating families on Coronavirus, with the help of our partner Shaw Rocket Fund. It has now been extended...
Mixed Nutz
Mixed Nutz Being from an unpopular country, naturally insecure or picked-on can make the life of any 9-year-old complicated. Meet Babak, the self-conscious kid from Iran, Damaris the superstitous bookworm from Cuba, and Sanjay, the bollywood dreamer from Mumbai....
Judge Jodhi
Judge Jodhi Jodhi Joshi, 12, has set up a courtroom in her backyard and, every day, after school, she hears neighbourhood cases. Run by kids, this courtroom is a place where you can bring any argument or issue to the trusted Judge: personal disagreements, mysteries,...
16 Hudson
Welcome to 16 Hudson. In this charming building, on a quiet street, in a big city, you can always find a friendly face. These are the adventures of group of neighbors who treasure each other’s similarities and differences. Here, everyone knows everyone and our...