Toronto's Stop Motion Studio for Food & Beverage.
Most stop motion comes from animators. Most food content comes from photographers. Nick is one of the few in the industry who works seriously in both, which means your product moves beautifully, and looks exactly right doing it.
Stop motion for food and beverage is a niche within a niche. The animation has to work. But so does the food, and that's where most productions fall apart.
What makes this rare is the ability to take a product, a can, a bottle, a dish, and bring it to life. To give it genuine personality, choreograph its movement so it feels alive and playful, like it has somewhere to be. That's a craft that takes years to develop, and doing it with food adds another layer entirely: the product has to look as good in the last frame as it did in the first.
Stop motion that knows what food is supposed to look like.
Based in Toronto - Working with brands & agencies across Canada
We get to know your product before the shoot.
HOW IT WORKS01 Product Exploration
Every stop motion project starts with time alone with the product: before the crew, before the set, before a single light goes up. We figure out how it moves, what it can do, what moments are possible. Those pre-tests get shared with you so that by shoot day, everyone arrives knowing exactly how the product is going to behave on set.
02 Creative Development
We can execute your existing concept or develop the creative from scratch. Either way, we'll bring ideas to the table — especially when it comes to giving your product a personality and making it genuinely fun to watch.
03 Full Production
A food stylist, prop stylist, and full crew on set — sourced in whatever city we're shooting in, whether that's Toronto, Montreal, or further afield. Nick directs and executes the animation himself. No handoff, no gap between the vision and the result.
04 Full Campaign Delivery
Hero cuts, social formats, cut-downs, multi-language versions. Whatever the campaign needs across whatever platforms, we deliver it clean and ready to hand off.
Selected Work.
PAM
Agency: Crew Marketing
Freshii
Client Direct
Komasa Gin
Client Direct
Common Questions
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Stop motion is a frame-by-frame animation technique where a product is physically moved in tiny increments between individually captured photographs. Played back in sequence, it creates the illusion of movement. Applied to food and tabletop products, it's one of the most tactile and visually engaging formats in product advertising — and one that demands very particular expertise to do well.
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Because the food has to look right in every single frame. Most stop motion directors come from an animation background — they're watching the movement, not the food. After 15 years shooting food and beverage for brands across Toronto, Nick watches both. A food stylist and prop stylist are on every set, and every frame is treated with the same care as a hero photograph.
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Food, beverages, condiments, spirits, snacks, CPG packaging, and tabletop products of all kinds. If your product has a personality — or you want to give it one — stop motion is worth considering. We've animated cooking spray cans, gin bottles, charcuterie boards, and a lot in between.
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Both. We work with creative directors at agencies including CREW, BBDO, and Doner North, and just as comfortably with in-house marketing teams at brands working direct. Either way, we can execute a developed concept or help build one from scratch.
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Everything. Food styling, prop styling, and a full crew on set. Studio sourcing is handled wherever we're shooting — Toronto, Montreal, or beyond. Nick directs and executes the stop motion himself, so there's no translation layer between the creative vision and what gets captured. Delivery includes all formats the campaign needs: hero cuts, social edits, cut-downs, and multi-language versions.
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Yes. Cosmetics, lifestyle products, CPG packaging, and more. The food and beverage expertise is our sharpest differentiator, but the process and production standards apply to any tabletop product.
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We're based in Toronto and work with brands and agencies across Canada and internationally. Studio sourcing is part of the full-service offering — wherever the shoot happens, the production infrastructure comes with it.
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Get in touch below. Every project is scoped individually — scenes, complexity, formats, timelines. We'll ask the right questions and come back with something that makes sense for what you're making.
Whether you're coming with a fully developed concept or just a product and an instinct, we'd love to hear about it.