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 have broadcast in over 100 countries and 40 languages. We also operate our own streaming service, Oznoz.com, that offers premium family content in over 10 languages.
With studios, facilities and teams in Canada, the United States and Austria, 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 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 sustainability 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 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.
Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
We are committed to ensuring all of our shows promote SEL and pro-social values. In every program developed by Big Bad Boo, in addition to our team of award winning writers, artists and creatives, we include leading childhood development, gender and subject matter experts in the development process to ensure we are teaching the values outlined for each show. Our head of childhood development and curriculum, Dr. Sholly Fisch, is the former head of childhood development, research and curriculum for Sesame Workshop. Our company is also equally owned and managed by a diverse team of professionals. But don’t worry, even though our shows are educational, they are first and foremost entertaining for kids!
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 twelve award-winning animated series to date. We welcome coproductions with like-minded producers from around the world.
We also work as partners, consultants or executive producers where young creatives might need deep support from an experienced crew.
DISTRIBUTION
We distribute children’s content to traditional broadcasters, international television stations, online platforms, second-window platforms and sub-distributors for monetization and scale. Our distribution team has contacts in over 120 direct consumer channels worldwide, with strongholds in North America and Europe. We attend children’s television markets, industry events and festivals regularly for the purposes of training, networking, selling and expanding our network. These include Mipcom, Kidscreen, Cartoon Forum, and many others. Top broadcasters include CBC Kids, Hulu, TVOKids, SRC Radio-Canada, TFO, Okto Singapore, PBS Kids, Hop Channel, RTP Portugal, Teletoon, Disney Channel, Bein, Gloob Brazil, ICI TV, VmeKids, Edye, Discover Kids, and Oznoz.
Curriculum
Alongside our TV shows, we create complementary curriculum materials which we help partners implement in schools, libraries, community centers, museums, universities, and special events. Our curriculum programs include civic education, social/emotional learning, executive function, climate change, literacy, mathematics, and cultural programs for preschoolers and school-aged children. So far, Big Bad Boo has partaken in over 400 events centered around Persian culture, celebrating Norooz, Tirgan and Yalda. We have also worked with hundreds of museums in celebrating various cultures such as Chinese New Year or implementing science programs with our series Galapagos X.
Workshops
Big Bad Boo has a proud history of training young talent in various areas including writing, storyboarding, animation and production. Our free, regular BIPOC Workshop Series, which started in 2021, are designed to help young BIPOC creatives hone their skills, build their portfolio and network with decision makers in the children’s industry. Our partners include Canadian Media Fund, CBC Kids, Shaw Rocket Fund and others. To learn about the next workshop, be sure to follow our company LinkedIn which posts the latest company news.