Acclaimed Malaysian animation house Lil Critter Workshop (LCW) is expanding its global footprint, setting up an animation studio in the U.K. Based in Bristol, LCW’s new studio will focus on developing the company’s own IP, working with creative talent, studios and co-production partners in the U.K. and across Europe.
Headed by LCW’s Co-Founder and Executive Producer Walid Omar, the studio will be looking to recruit both senior development executives and creative staff as well as working with freelance writers and IP owners to work in collaboration with its established team in Malaysia.
“The U.K. is the natural home for our expanded business — not only was I raised and spent much of my formative career there, but the U.K. has a vast array of creative talent that we want to work with to build our slate of original IP,” says Omar. “We are also keen to collaborate with other U.K. studios as a production partner. We hope that our fusion of talent and ideas combined with U.K. voices will enable us to create and tell stories that are full of energy, bold and fun.”
LCW’s series including Hogie The Globehopper and Buck & Buddy have sold to leading global broadcasters and platforms including Netflix, CITV, Cartoon Network and Discovery Kids. The company also has a slate of dynamic projects in development that includes high energy comedy, anime and adventure.
The studio’s latest show, Billy Fei and the Cloud Trials, is a 22 x 26’ action-adventure series for kids aged 6+, which is being co-developed with Scribble Studios and recently received a grant from Epic Games. Canadian producer/distributor Bejuba! Entertainment is also on board as international distributor.
Launched in Kuala Lumpur in 2015, Lil Critter Workshop is a creative animation production house with studios in Malaysia and now the U.K. Working in collaboration with talent and partners around the world on its own and third-party projects, LCW leverages its fusion of cultures and ideas enables different voices to tell stories that are energetic, bold and fun. The studio is headed by Walid Omar, Lorna Henderson and Brian Chong.
