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Midnight Oil Animation

A trusted and reputable name in factory fresh "toon-ups!" We're reimagining what’s possible for the medium and doing it one spark at a time.

Midnight Oil Animation is a company that excels in inventive animated content and top-tier storytelling. Our award-winning, full-service indie animation studio exists to make creator-driven stories that deviate from the ordinary. Fueled by open collaboration, original thinking, and excellent storytelling, our singular mission is to set the whole animation world ablaze with daring quality content!

Midnight Oil takes a chance on the mavericks, dreamers, and weirdos who dare to infuse their offbeat tales with a turbocharged dose of heart and emotion. We don’t just work on in-house projects–we’d love to collaborate with you, too! Our dedicated team of producers, animators, illustrators, composers, and writers can help bring your ideas to life, whether it’s an animation, graphic novel, music video, storyboard work, or something more. Our team has what it takes to help you strike oil with your projects. Some of the best ideas are made at Midnight!

12/20/2024

We are so grateful that we got to do animation work with Papercut Editorial LLC on this anime commercial for Stephen Curry and De'Aaron Fox‘s Fox 1 ‘Happy Fox Day Alt’ shoes! Thanks for having us!

Internal Animation Production: DeLon Warren and Barry Strum
Character Designers: Kalvin Kulz & DeLon Warren
Storyboards: Kalvin Kulz
Animation and BG: : Alex Graboyes
Compositing: Wasan Hayajneh & DeLon Warren
Production Assistant: Mike McClean

09/03/2024

Here's a new sneak peek of our upcoming pilot we're producing, Pensacola! By Wasan Hayajneh!

08/09/2024

Greetings, dudes! We're beyond excited to announce that the Midnight Oil Animation team worked on a music video for Yo Gabba GabbaLand for the 6th episode, “Me,” on AppleTV+ !

We couldn’t have done it without the incredible support of our team:

Director: DeLon R. Warren
Animation: Michelle Velasco
Backgrounds: Megan Maniago
Internal Production Coordinator: Barry Strum

An enormous thank you to Six Point Harness and AppleTV+ for producing, giving our company this incredible opportunity, and trusting us to bring this project to life!

Full Episode: https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/me/umc.cmc.33qfgs4pry805h9q5zu0acelm?showId=umc.cmc.6a8qdw6e76cba2l0rkgzfbocl
Press: https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/originals/yo-gabba-gabbaland/
Album Download: https://yogabba.lnk.to/GabbaLand

07/21/2024

Some awesome news that was 5 years in the making- Midnight Oil Animation is so excited to present to you some behind the scenes photos of our upcoming pilot, "BUBBE!" BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR UPDATES!!

06/13/2024

YOPPAMAN IS PUBLIC!! This is such an amazing project we got the opportunity to work on. Big thanks to Six Point Harness, Zack Fox, Donald Glover, and Chibuyum for giving us a shot to prove ourselves!! Another big thanks to our Midnight Oil Animation team. Thank you all so much for working with us, and you should be very proud of yourselves!! I appreciate you peeps, and keep shining as always!! WATCH YOPPAMAN: HAPPY GRITS TRAINING VIDEO ON YOUTUBE!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXmw-VNi7VQ
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-Midnight Oil Animation Internal Credits-

Animation Supervisor:
DeLon R. Warren

Animation Producers/ Line Producers:
Barry Strum
DeLon R. Warren

Production Assistant:
Michael McClean

Animators:
Alex Graboyes
Starr Horton
Kalvin Kulz
Ciel Lopez
Yuki Mori
Caleb Nelson
Emily Serrano
Michelle Velasco
DeLon R. Warren

Additional Colorists & Clean Up:
Irem Epikmen
Davey Jarrell
Sammi Kay
Berkeley Rosenstein

Layout & Background Artists:
Wasan Hayajneh
Caleb Nelson
Florence Wu

Editing & Compositing By:
Wasan Hayajneh
DeLon R. Warren

06/12/2024

What’s good, everyone?!
Tune into Gilga.com at 1:30 p.m. PST to hear the story of (and watch!) the anime short our company Midnight Oil Animation did animation services for Six Point Harness, Donald Glover, and Zack Fox!

04/12/2024

We're excited to announce that Midnight Oil Animation was given the honor of contributing to this awesome new show, which will premiere on August 9th via Apple TV+! Thanks, Six Point Harness, for having us be part of this fantastic journey!

Director: DeLon R. Warren
Animator: Michelle Velasco
Background Artist: Megan Maniago
Production Cord: Barry Strum

Today, Apple TV+ revealed a first look at the new 10-episode series Yo Gabba GabbaLand!, inspired by the Emmy Award-nominated Yo Gabba Gabba!, to premiere globa

01/11/2024

Went a lil too fast there!

: Jennifer Alice Wright
: Katie Hood
: Sterling Gavinski

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We are so grateful that we got to do animation work with Papercut Editorial LLC on this anime commercial for Stephen Curry and De'Aaron Fox‘s Fox 1 ‘Happy Fox Day Alt’ shoes! Thanks for having us! Internal Animation Production: DeLon Warren and Barry Strum Character Designers: Kalvin Kulz & DeLon Warren Storyboards: Kalvin Kulz Animation and BG: : Alex Graboyes Compositing: Wasan Hayajneh & DeLon Warren Production Assistant: Mike McClean

What’s good, everyone?! Tune into Gilga.com at 1:30 p.m. PST to hear the story of (and watch!) the anime short our company Midnight Oil Animation did animation services for Six Point Harness, Donald Glover, and Zack Fox! #zackfox #donaldglover #happygrits #anime #Gilga

Went a lil too fast there! #Animation : Jennifer Alice Wright #storyboards : Katie Hood #music : Sterling Gavinski