Stop Motion Production

Stop-motion in Peru centers on a small but skilled Lima craft scene. It grew through advertising, music-video, and short-form work. Now it ships Andean children's content into the Latin American streaming market. Pro houses include Aronés Animation, Tunche Films, Maraton Productions, and Peruanitas Studio in the capital. Puppet and set-fabrication workshops feed commercials for Inca Kola, Nescafé, Tottus, and Plaza Vea. They also supply originals and segments for Movistar Play and Latina kids' programming.

Independent feature work has come through Ibermedia, IBERMEDIA TV, and DAFO production grants. The festival circuit runs through Festival de Cine de Lima and Festival al Este Lima. Animation festivals add São Paulo, Annecy, Anima Mundi Rio, and the Quirino Iberoamerican Awards. Puppet builders deliver armature-based characters with metal skeletons, silicone or foam bodies, and replacement-face systems. These bring Andean storytelling to life — apus, condors, vicuñas, chinchillas, viscachas, and the cast of Quechua folklore. Set builders construct scale environments to the same standard the capital's commercial sector now expects.

Capture happens on Dragonframe-equipped rigs. They run Sony A7R V and Canon EOS R5 mirrorless bodies at 4K and above. Each setup uses steady practical lighting and motorised focus control. Motion-control moves run on Mark Roberts and tabletop rigs. These stand ready when a sequence calls for dollies, pans, or crane motion alongside the frame-by-frame animation.

Production planning factors in the time profile of stop-motion. The work yields mostly one to five seconds of finished animation per shooting day. A thirty-second commercial often spans several weeks, plus pre-production and post. Our team supports each stage. We begin with storyboarding, character and set design, and tech pre-visualisation. From there we move to fabrication and animation direction on stage at Lima soundstages serviced by APU Productions, Chita Films, and GoPeruFilms. The final pass goes through Peru's VFX houses. Post — rig removal, compositing, miniature integration, and DI grading — runs through Makaco VFX, Maneki Studio, and Gamma Post House.

Our team handles DAFO and Ministerio de Cultura sign-ups, IGV 18% invoicing, and IBERMEDIA forms for co-productions. We also manage MINCETUR and PromPerú liaison, ANACTP-aligned crew rates, and the competitive non-union 12-to-14-hour day that Peruvian animation production depends on.