Apartment D Films Talks First Original Series: Ruff Ruff Danger Dogs [Video]

Named in 2014 after their own “Apartment D” unit in Burbank, Max Lopez and roommate Sean Malony’s independent stop-motion studio made its start in branded content for Mattel toys like My Mini Mixie, Justice League, Polly Pockets and Hot Wheels. By 2016, they needed a bigger space, so co-founders Lopez and Malony moved Apartment D Films out of the apartment and into, as Lopez puts it “a garage with a house.”

“Every great business starts in a garage,” says Lopez. “And that’s also when we met our third business partner, Cami Kwan, which was the catalyst. Things started really spinning from there.”

The animation studio started working on music videos for The Itchyworms and Ninja Sex Party, Burbank State of the City presentations, and animating for TV shows like Nickelodeon’s Middlemost Post, Good Mythical Morning and the American Girlmini-series, which moved the studio out of the garage and into its own official office space …