— about us —

Dawn of Five Evils stop motion pulling out skull

who we are

At small minded animation we have two sides to our operation.

We are both a stop motion animation studio, where our minds are focused on small things, in scale. Our mission is to bring more stop motion content to the world by offering alternative speaking puppets that are better, faster, and cheaper.

We also offer a full service video production company. This is where things get a bit bigger in scale! We work with businesses, near and far, to fulfill their video content objectives. Our goal is to create content that our clients will love for years to come.

a new FAIS in stop motion

Jais Sardo, owner & operator of small minded animation has been fascinated with stop motion since he was young. After years of working in live action, Jais decided to switch gears and start working in the niche’ animation industry. Turns out, his favorite part of stop motion was fabrication, which lead him to engineering a novel way of articulating puppet faces! The innovative mechanism, lives inside the puppet skull and is operated from behind the head. The movements can be ultra-realistic, cartoony, bizarre, whatever the character requires. Best of all, the method is cheaper than facial replacement, faster to finished animation, and gives animators the FREEDOM of expression in their performance.

We encourage you to message Jais about FAIS (facial articulation innovative systems!)

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