The Ember Atlas
2025 / Feature / 96 min
A mapmaker's daughter follows a burning atlas across a desert of black sand.
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Bringing worlds to light, frame by frame.
Bringingworldstolight,framebyframe.
We are an animation studio that treats every frame like a doorway. Story first, light always, and no world left dark.
Worlds we’ve lit
Four doors we opened recently. Each began as a single frame in the dark.
Moth & Moon
2024 / Short / 11 min
A giant moth ferries lost wishes between a sleeping village and the moon.
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The Cartographer's Son
2023 / Feature / 88 min
One boy, one lantern, and a sea that only moves when nobody watches.
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Salt & Starlight
2022 / Series / 8 episodes
A lighthouse keeper discovers her beam is a river that stars swim up.
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Meet Wick.
Our explorer, our first audience, and the little voice in every review that asks: but what's behind that door?
Wick walks into every world we build before you do. If his goggles fog up, we know it's good.
GOGGLES / BACKPACK / NO FEAR
How worlds get lit
Frame by frame
Story
Every world starts as a question worth following into the dark.
Design
Characters, places, and props are drawn until they feel found, not made.
Motion
Performance is built one frame at a time, by hand, at 24 a second.
Light
The last pass is the first thing you feel: where the light comes from.
The studio
Built by people who never stopped exploring.
Directors, painters, riggers, and lighters under one roof, making original films and partnering with studios who want theirs to glow.
- Founded
- 2019
- Artists
- 24
- Films
- 13
- Frames lit
- 4.2M
