Hype, PunkRobot & Red Animation Studios Join Pipelines to Form “Los Amigos”

Hype, PunkRobot & Red Animation Studios Join Pipelines to Form “Los Amigos”

February 11th, 2020

Jerry Beck

Three of the most successful studios in Latin America today announce a coalition based on a shared production pipeline to be dubbed “Los Amigos.” Brazil’s Hype (Tainá and the Guardians of the Amazon), Chile’s Academy award-winning PunkRobot (Bear Story), and Peru’s Red Animation Studios (A Mouse Tale), have been working together since 2017 on a friendly, “let’s do this thing,” type of alliance.

In the past two years, the members of Los Amigos have combined their production pipelines in 2d and CGI, so that all work has become seamless in real-time between the three territories. Their ability to provide quality work, on time and at affordable prices has been tested and proved on the Disney Latam’s series “Guitar & Drum” and a yet to be revealed major game studio shorts series. Now, the trio are formerly taking their friendship to the next level.

“Los Amigos began in a shared love of animation and a lot of good times hanging out at animation festivals and markets around the world,” says Milton Guerrero, Head of Red Animation Studios. “Seriously, we’ve been amigos for so long that it came as a brilliant surprise to the three of us that working together would strengthen all of our businesses.” In fact, this announcement, which brings together some 280 collaborators, officially makes Los Amigos the largest “collective” studio in the entire Latam territory.

“We believe that unity is strength and working together make us stronger. Over the past two years, we have standardized all our processes and nomenclatures, as well as defining the best procedures for each studio within the overall group in order to succeed and grow together” says Pato Escala of Punkrobot.

“Plus,” adds Gabriel Garcia of Hype, “We share cultural identities and passion for the animation. We totally ‘get’ each other, which makes work fun and gives us a shorthand for creating great and compelling properties for ourselves and for our clients.”

Simply put, Los Amigos has ambitious plans for the future, including several new productions lined up for greenlight. The friends are actively looking for service work offerings as well as co-production partnerships.

Viva Los Amigos!

Hype (bio)
Hype works for great stories to happen, always looking for the difference we can make. Our team works from sketch to post production with professionalism and creativity, giving life to great ideas. Hype offers full services for animation on TV series and film production, as well as specific parts of the animation pipeline for games. With partners like Disney, and Nickelodeon, our portfolio ranges from work for hire to original content for all kinds of audiences. The combination between people, technology and creativity makes us unique, it is the fuel that moves us towards the best technical performance, to seek perfection on each detail and that inspires us to find the perfect balance between form and content, stirring emotions through incredible stories and memorable characters.

PunkRobot (bio)
We are an animation studio based in Santiago de Chile created by Antonia Herrera, Gabriel Osorio, María Elisa Soto- Aguilar and Pato Escala. Since 2008, thanks to a great multidisciplinary team, we have developed projects for television, advertising and cinema with high visual impact, among which the preschool series Flipos (2010), The Adventures of Muelín and Perlita (2013) and the short film stand out Animated Story of a Bear (2014), winner of the first Oscar of Animation Award in Latin America. Our goal is to create, produce and internationalize unique animated content that contributes to society, with themes such as friendship, respect, tolerance and diversity.

Red Animation Studios (bio)
Red Animation is a fifteen-year-old studio boasting a 82 member staff. Since the founding of the company, Red has produced more than 1,000 minutes of CG and 2D animation. Showed in networks like Nickelodeon, Disney, Netflix, (and the ongoing YouTube channel series “Little Angel” with 10 million of subscriptions , The company’s animation work on “Siesta 7” – a preschool co-pro – earned an International Emmy nod in 2017, “A mouse tale” cgi feature released in 70 countries Although the bulk of Red’s work is in CG, they have recently completed of digital hand-drawn animation for the upcoming feature film, “ .“ In addition to animation services, Red offers a robust and experienced concept design staff, many of whom are busy contributing to the look of the company’s second CG feature film, “Kai”.

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Jerry Beck

Writer, cartoon producer and author of more than 15 books on animation history. A former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney; currently on the faculty at both CalArts in Valencia and Woodbury University in Burbank, California.