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Twos is a 2D animation studio of nineteen people. Series, commercials, explainers and title sequences, drawn frame by frame by hand.
Four loops, drawn
while you watch.
Nothing here is a video file. Every shot is drawn live in your browser, at the cadence you picked up top. Scrub the exposure strip the way we review dailies.
One drawing,
four passes.
- Week 1
Storyboard
Every shot as a thumbnail with its camera move and timing, cut to your voiceover as an animatic before a single key is drawn.
Director + board artist - Weeks 2–3
Rough keys
Blue pencil, loose and fast. Line of action, construction, timing charts. You approve motion here, while changes are cheap.
Key animator - Weeks 3–5
Clean-up
One confident ink line traced over every rough and inbetween, on model, with a little boil left in so it never looks traced.
Clean-up artists - Weeks 5–6
Colour
Flat cel paint from a locked colour model, one hard shadow tone, then composited over painted backgrounds and delivered.
Ink & paint
Type a line.
We’ll sync it.
- Rest
- M B P
- A I
- E
- O
- U W Q
- F V
- L Th D
- C K S
- 001HKbrows up, hands open
- 003eE
- 005lL
- 007lL
- 009oO
- 011!—
- 013—
- 015—
- 017·—
- 019IE
- 021'—
- 023mMBP
- 025·—
- 027BMBP
- 029lL
- 031oO
- 033tL
- 035.—
- 037—
- 039—
20 drawings · 1.7 s on twos
Your scroll
is the thumb.
Forty-eight drawings, one per page. Scroll slowly and Blot walks you through the principles we draw by.
- 01Anticipation
- 11Squash & stretch
- 14Arcs
- 21Exaggeration
- 28Follow-through
- 39Appeal
Priced by
the drawing.
Length times cadence is the number of drawings we make. That’s what you pay for, plus a fixed fee for boards and animatic. Move anything and the sums redo themselves.
Roll
credits.
“We asked for a thirty-second spot and got a character our customers now ask about by name. They showed us roughs in week two, and every note we gave was in the next pass.”
TWOS
a hand-drawn animation studio
Made with
- Pocket Snacks
- Brand world, 14 idents
- Halden Paints
- One Coat, TV + social
- Lantern TV
- Night Shift, series titles
- Verde Bank
- Grows on You, explainer
- Kettle Records
- Three music videos
- Northbound Rail
- Safety film, 6 languages
- Oddfellow Games
- Cutscenes, 22 minutes
- Mimo
- App onboarding loops
Crew
- Creative director
- Ines Marlow
- Head of animation
- Tomasz Ruda
- Key animators
- Ade Okafor, June Park, Lior Ben-Ami
- Clean-up
- Sana Qureshi, Matteo Russo
- Ink & paint
- Hana Sato, Rui Costa
- Backgrounds
- Elif Demir
- Producer
- Callum Reyes
- Studio dog
- Pencil
By the numbers
- Founded
- 2014
- Films delivered
- 212
- Drawings last year
- 61,480
- Frames generated by AI
- 0
No drawings were harmed in the making of this studio.
Questions,
boarded.
- Action
About six weeks from signed brief to masters: one for boards and animatic, two for rough keys, two for clean-up, one for colour and comp. Rush jobs are possible on threes.
- Action
- Action
- Action
- Action
- Action
Your shot
is next.
Tell us what you’re making. A director, not a salesperson, writes back within one working day with questions and a rough plan.
- Write
- hello@twos.studio
- Visit
- 14 Cable Street, Bristol
- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 9.30–6