"I built this studio for authors with a story, a day job, and no Hollywood budget."
Most of the authors we work with wrote their book in the hours around everything else — early mornings, late nights, weekends that were meant to be for resting. They paid an illustrator out of their own savings. Then the book came out, and the hardest part started: getting anyone to notice.
That's the gap I wanted to close. Animation used to mean a studio, an agent, and a budget none of us had. It doesn't anymore. If you've written something you believe in, you should be able to see it move — without remortgaging anything to find out what it looks like.
— Quil Thomas, Founder
Built inside hundreds of episodes of broadcast animation.
My name is Quil Thomas. I'm the founder of Animate My Storybook and creator of Country Mungrel TV — Jamaica's leading original animation series with 279 original episodes and 28M+ verified YouTube views, with audiences across Jamaica, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
Country Mungrel is more than a comedy series. It's a production engine. Over hundreds of episodes we built a studio capable of broadcast-grade animation at speed — characters, voices, original music, sound design, and a release cadence that would normally cost millions.
When authors started reaching out asking if we could turn their children's books into animated films, the answer was already there. Yes — and at a level Hollywood studios charge ten times more for.
Animate My Storybook is the doorway: we open our broadcast engine to a small number of children's book authors per quarter. Used in Caribbean educational storytelling contexts. Author-first.