Heritage Storytelling for Young Audiences
Stories rooted in place,
told with heart
Magic Lake Pictures creates character-driven animation that connects children to real heritage, real places, and real wonder.
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About
Heritage. Character. Conservation.
Magic Lake Pictures is a British animation studio creating children's content grounded in real heritage and real places. We believe the best stories for young audiences come from somewhere — a real place.
Story
Where emotional intelligence meets coastal adventure — characters children remember.
Place
Screen time that leads to coastline. Every location in the series is a real place that families can visit.
Purpose
Conservation, belonging, and the courage to ask for help.
In Development
The Stackpole Fellowship
An animated children's series for 5–7s set on the Welsh coast in 1945. Character-driven, heritage-grounded, and made for families who believe children deserve content with substance.
Format: 11 x 7min episodes (Target 5–7)
Setting: Pembrokeshire, 1945
Status: Broadcast-ready scripts • 90s animatic available • Seeking production partner
On the wild Pembrokeshire coast in 1945, a rescued grey seal pup named Niffy-Nooh washes ashore at Stackpole Estate — where the sea meets the lakes. He glows blue when he's anxious, which is often.
With Otto, a mischievous otter who fears nothing, and two local children learning to understand each other, Niffy-Nooh discovers that the bravest thing you can do is ask for help.
Together they form the Stackpole Fellowship — exploring, belonging, and protecting the place they love.
Scripts Ready
Animatic
IP
Protected
Why Heritage
The Stackpole Fellowship is set at a real National Trust estate in Pembrokeshire. Barafundle Bay, the Bosherston Lily Ponds, the Eight Arch Bridge — these are places a family can visit the weekend after watching.
Where screen time leads to shoreline
"Screen time that leads to coastline. Every location in the series is a real place families can visit."
In a world turning back to the tangible, The Stackpole Fellowship connects what children watch to where families explore.