Locksmith Animation

Locksmith Animation
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryComputer animation
Film production
FoundedJanuary 14, 2014 (2014-01-14)
FounderSarah Smith
Julie Lockhart
Elisabeth Murdoch (financial backing)
Headquarters,
United Kingdom
Number of locations
2 (2024)
Key people
Julie Lockhart (president of prod.)
Natalie Fischer (CEO)
Mary Coleman (CCO)
Britt Gardiner (COO)
Daphne Mather (Head of Culture)
Doug Ikeler (CTO/SVP Digital Prod.)
Shelley Page (Head of Talent)
ProductsFeature films
OwnerSister Group
Number of employees
100 (2025)
ParentSister Pictures
Websitewww.locksmithanimation.com

Locksmith Animation is a British-American independent computer animation feature film studio owned by Sister Group. Headquartered in London, England with an office in Los Angeles, California, Locksmith is best known for producing and developing independent computer-animated feature films.

Locksmith Animation's first film, Ron's Gone Wrong, was released on 22 October 2021, distributed by 20th Century Studios (which had recently been acquired by Disney two years prior) with positive reviews. That Christmas, a holiday film based on the children's Christmas book trilogy That Christmas and Other Stories by British filmmaker Richard Curtis, was released by Netflix on 4 December 2024. The studio's next films are, Bad Fairies, a subversive original musical-comedy film set in contemporary London, to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures on 23 July 2027, The Lunar Chronicles, based on the author Marissa Meyer's four young adult science fiction fantasy novels by the same name, to be released also by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 3, 2028, and Wed Wabbit, based on the adventure fiction novel from Lissa Evans, and their first independent feature, to be funded and release by themselves.