Hotbox Studios – Web Design, Animation and Branding

Hotbox Studios is an animation and design company run by Mark Hatchard and Robert Smith.

Hotbox Events is a trading name of Hotbox Studios.

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Hotbox Studios Ltd was incorporated in February 2003.

Hotbox Studios' first production was a film for the Hampshire Constabulary in 1999 - then working as
Hotbox Productions.

For more information about the history of Hotbox Studios please see the Hotbox Studios History page.

Hotbox Studios is based on the Elvetham Estate, between the M3 and M4, twenty miles from the M25, fourty miles from the centre of London, in the South East of the UK.

To see where Hotbox Studios is based on Google Maps please click here.

Studio & Correspondence Address
Hotbox Studios, Unit 1, Middle Yard, Home Farm Road, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, RG27 8AW.

Registered Office
Hotbox Studios, c/o Ascot Drummond, 2-3 Cursitor Street, London, EC4A 1NE.

Hotbox Studios' and the company's client's websites, databases, and online software are run from Hotbox Studios' dedicated servers and security hardware; housed within a secure data centre in Maidenhead (South East UK, twenty five miles from the main studio, here on Google Maps).

Hotbox Studios produces animation and visual effects, websites, software applications and graphics (identity/branding).

Hotbox Studios also works with film, photography, and supplies online services such as email, domain registration, web hosting, secure document exchange and backup.

International award winning collaboration has led to Hotbox Studios' computer animation and visual effects premiering in London (Sadlers Wells, The Royal Opera House, The Lisson Gallery, The Lilian Baylis Theatre, The Laban Centre), New York (Lehmann Maupin Gallery), Milan (Teatro alla Scala), showing on the BBC and touring worldwide.

Websites created by Hotbox Studios vary enormously - from aiding with the global promotion of artists and services to creating a focal point for companies and organisations.

Hotbox Studios develops software for the company's clients and for in-house use. Examples of software produced for Hotbox Studios' clients include the PAAM Event Management Software Application and Content Management Systems (CMS) for client's websites. In-house software is most often produced to aid with the production of 3D animation and visual effects - customisations for software such as Autodesk Maya.

Hotbox Studios work with photography and graphic design is most often as a result of projects initiated within other areas of the company e.g. photographs used within an animation or a logo for a company and its website.

If you would like to talk to someone at Hotbox you can contact us here.