Cuppa Coffee Studios

Cuppa Coffee Studios (formerly known as Cuppa Coffee Animation) is a Canadian production company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Cuppa Coffee was founded by Adam Shaheen in 1992. It specializes in both stop-motion animation and 2D animation, winning over 150 international awards. Cuppa Coffee is currently developing live-action content through Cuppa Coffee USA.

Cuppa Coffee Studios
FormerlyCuppa Coffee Animation (1992-2006)
IndustryAnimation
FoundedDecember 1992 (1992-12) in Toronto Canada
FounderAdam Shaheen
Bruce Alcock
Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario
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Canada
Websitewww.cuppacoffee.com

History

By late 1992, Adam Shaheen had worked on several editorial assignments, book jackets and CD covers, but he wanted to create a unique animation style mixing photographic, collage and illustration techniques. In December, he founded Cuppa Coffee Animation with Bruce Alcock, and Steve Hillman joined the company shortly after. Cuppa Coffee's first projects were network IDs and show opens for MuchMusic and a commercial for Fruity Pebbles. In March 1993, Cuppa Coffee was featured on Citytv's MediaTelevision program; the interview expanded a campaign for Molson's Black Ice which exhibited their unique mixed-media animation. Bruce Alcock moved to Chicago in 1995 to start Tricky Pictures, Backyard Productions' animation subsidiary. In February 1996, Cuppa Coffee began producing live-action, starting with three spots for Molson Ultra. In 1997, Cuppa Coffee launched Sargent York, a short-lived arm of the company that would work on longer-form content like "The Adventures of Sam Digital in the 21st Century", an award-winning short film for Nickelodeon. In the late 1990s, Cuppa Coffee produced the HBO Family series Crashbox and other shorter projects for the network, the CBS Christmas special Snowden's Christmas, and pilots for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.

In 2001, Cuppa Coffee Animation started development on three series for children: Cinema Sue, Ted's Bed and Gordon Giraffe. The following year, Broadway Video Enterprises agreed to distribute the three series, but none of them went into production. In 2004, Cuppa Coffee launched Decaf Distribution as it started producing its own content. In 2005, the short series Bruno aired on Noggin and international Nickelodeon channels, and AWOL Animation agreed to distribute the short series Tigga and Togga and Bruno and the Banana Bunch, a long-form series based on the Bruno interstitials. Cuppa Coffee was also going to co-produce Captain Mack with Kickback Media, but the completed series was produced by Fireback Entertainment instead.

In September 2009, Gordon Ramsay signed a prime time animation deal with Cuppa Coffee Studios, who began working on the series Gordon Ramsay, At Your Service, which was never completed. In 2010, Cuppa Coffee Studios added 30 stages and 30,000 square feet to its Toronto studios. Cuppa Coffee launched Saucer Sound that year and Lemon Squeezy Interactive in 2011. After Cuppa Coffee developed other animated projects throughout the 2010s that never went into production, including a show based on Polybank Designs' Pets Rock licensing brand, the studio opened Cuppa Coffee USA in 2018 and is developing live action dramas.

List of productions by Cuppa Coffee Studios

Other work
Title Year(s) Notes Client
French Kiss
The Wedge
Word Up		1993openingsMuchMusic
Married Life1995openingAtlantis Films
Fast Track1997openingAlliance
Short Films by Short People1997"The Adventures of Sam Digital in the 21st Century"Nickelodeon
HBO Family 411
Who Knew?
Smart Mouth		1999interstitial seriesHBO Family
I Am Poem1999"Running"Nickelodeon
Existenz1999title sequenceAlliance Atlantis
Random Play1999opening and bumpersVH1
Super Why!1999pilotNick Jr. Productions
Exhale2000openingOxygen
This Week in Baseball2000three "Mini Mel" interstitialsMajor League Baseball
I Was a Rat2001title sequenceCatalyst Entertainment
Spider2002title designArtists Independent Network
True Outdoor Adventures2002openingESPN
Zeyda and the Hitman2004title designMiracle Pictures
Going Down2004music videoThe Illuminati
R30: 30th Anniversary Tour2004"Darn That Dragon" segmentRush
The Newsroom2005"Learning to Fly"
Rapture2006music videoCapitol Records
Eastern Promises2007title designFocus Features
Lewis Black's Root of All Evil2008openingComedy Central
Less Than Kind2008openingBreakthrough Entertainment
Junk Raiders2009opening, bumpers, and show elementsProper TV
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia2009"A Very Sunny Christmas"FX Productions
From Spain with Love with Annie Sibonney2011animation and graphicsShaftesbury Films
A Dangerous Method2011title designRecorded Picture Company
Cosmopolis2012title designProspero Pictures
Sesame Street2012–2014sequences in "4303", "4305", "4306", "4315",
"4401", "4408" and "4501"		Sesame Workshop
Open Heart2012title designUrban Landscapes
Maps to the Stars2014title designProspero Pictures
Killjoys2016openingTemple Street Productions
Jane the Virgin2016"Chapter Forty-Seven" (animated sequence)CBS Television Studios

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