Customer Stories

Céline Durieux has spent her career at the intersection of production direction and studio management. She started in advertising, moved into feature films and series, and for the past four years has served as Head of Studio at FOST in Paris overseeing HR, facilities across 1,140 square meters of studio space, and coordination of the tech and pipeline departments. FOST is an independent 2D animation studio founded in 2018 by Damien Brunner and Thibaut Ruby, who also run Folivari, a French produ

At the 2026 Kitsu Summit, Chris Unterberg, founder and animation supervisor at Tetsuo Animation, took the stage to share something that every animation studio deals with but rarely talks about openly: feedback. Not just how to receive it, but how to give it in a way that is clear, visual, and actually useful to animators. His talk, titled "Quickdraw Always Wins," was part technical walkthrough, part philosophy lesson, and entirely grounded in the day-to-day reality of running an animation studi

Pete Draper walked attendees through two major chapters of his career and how Kitsu, the open-source production tracking platform developed by CGWire, became the operational backbone of both.

Discover how Remembers used Kitsu to scale production on Arco. Learn how a small studio transitioned from Google Sheets to a structured pipeline without developers.

Tobie Lolness TV series, a 26x26 project, involved four different studios and required tight collaboration between all stakeholders. This is why they chose Kitsu for their project.

Pete Draper, Makuta VFX Co-Founder, following their work on the RRR movie (one of the biggest blockbusters in India), accepted to share with us his experience of Kitsu. He told us how he took advantage of Kitsu to ship the production on time despite tight deadlines and unexpected covid lockdowns.

A few words about Miyu Founded in 2009 by Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Miyu Productions is a TV production company specializing in animation. They create short and feature films alongside TV series. Since its inception, the company carries a strict editorial direction for all its projects. Miyu and Kitsu In this customer story, Carole, Production Manager at Miyu, will tell us how she implemented Kitsu in her studio. Carole, can you tell us more about you? I have always been passionate about animati

Learn how Fost Studio has set up Kitsu for their teams. Through their use of your solution, you will be able to understand better the benefits provided.

Who is Autour de Minuit? For those who don't know, Autour de Minuit is a French film production company created in 2001 by Nicolas Schmerkin. Over time, the editorial line opened up to other genres and audiences such as documentaries, music videos, fiction or animation for kids and families. Now the company has two studios, one in Paris and one in Angoulême. Paris' studioThree years after the creation they realized that they also wanted to get into the distribution of animation and digital wo