So you’ve got an idea. It’s been rattling around your head for a while — something vivid, something that feels like it and you’re ready to do something with it. But how do you get from that spark to a polished animated piece sitting in your social feed doing actual work for your brand?
Here’s what that journey looks like when you work with Remember Kate Production.
First Contact
It starts with a conversation. Not a pitch, not a quote. Just a conversation.
Not every client and studio are going to be a natural fit, and that’s fine. Your vision might sit outside our wheelhouse. Our way of working might not be what you’re after. These things happen, and it’s far better to figure that out early over a coffee than three weeks into a project. What we’re looking for in that first exchange is alignment: Do we understand what you’re trying to make? Do we genuinely believe we’re the right people to make it?
If the answer is yes, we go deeper. We ask the questions that start to draw the shape of your project: What’s the story? Who’s it for? Where does it live? What does success look like for you? That first conversation is less about logistics and more about finding out whether there’s something real here worth building together.
The Brief
Once we’ve got a working picture of what you need, we build a brief.
Think of this as the broad stroke not a detailed technical document, but a clear articulation of what the project is, what it needs to do, and what the shape of the engagement looks like. It covers the creative scope, the expected deliverables, and the commercial framework: milestone payments, timelines, and sign-off points.
Yes, we talk money here. We’re a creative collective, and we genuinely love what we do but we also like to eat, keep the lights on, and maintain the kind of software subscriptions that make the magic possible. The brief makes the commercial side of the partnership transparent from the start so there are no surprises down the track.
The Bible
This is where the project earns its backbone.
The production bible is our cornerstone document. The single source of truth that guides everything from kickoff to delivery. It goes well beyond the brief, drilling into the specific details that will drive every creative decision. You’ll find concept art, character designs, environment work, and style references that establish the visual world of the project. You’ll find granular timelines, milestone markers, and a clear picture of what the final deliverables look like and in what format they’ll be handed over.
There may be accompanying documents too: scripts, style guides, spreadsheet breakdowns outlining every logistical element needed to carry the project through to delivery. The bible is thorough by design. A clear, agreed bible means the client knows exactly what they’re getting, and Remember Kate knows exactly what we’re building. There’s no grey area, and there’s nowhere for assumptions to hide.
This is not the most glamorous part of the process. But it is the part that makes everything else possible.
Let’s Make Stuff
Now comes the part everyone’s actually here for.
Guided by the bible and in ongoing collaboration with the client, our team gets to work. The process moves through distinct stages, storyboards that map the narrative beat by beat, character turnarounds that establish how your cast exists in three dimensions, environment paintovers that set the world your story inhabits before we move into the animation itself, building toward delivery in the format your platform needs.
At each milestone, you get eyes on the work. This isn’t us disappearing into a creative black box and emerging six weeks later with something that doesn’t feel like your vision. You’re part of the process. Your feedback shapes it. The bible gives us the goal posts; the collaboration gets us there with something that actually exceeds them.
The goal, every time, is animation that earns its place in the feed, something playful, irreverent, and built with enough heart to give it a real edge.
Curious about what your idea could become? Get in touch with Remember Kate Production, and let’s start that first conversation.