Spy Pictures was established in 1999 as a London

London

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 based production company

Production company

A production company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video.- Tasks and functions :...

 making short films, commercials, music promos and title sequence

Title sequence

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s, mainly animated. The company is owned and run by the founding directors Stephen Cavalier and Patrick Beirne, who before Spy Pictures each had over ten years experience in the animation, film and video game industries.

Series work includes all animation for series two of Modern Toss

Modern Toss

Modern Toss is a British series of cartoon booklets and books aimed at adults, and a television series based on them. It is the creation of Mick Bunnage and Jon Link; their company is called Modern Toss Ltd, also going under the name '*hitflap' .The cartoons feature low-quality drawing, offensive...

, work on Tommy Zoom

Tommy Zoom

-Heroes:* Tommy Zoom - A child superhero, complete with cape and large Z imprinted on his chest.* Daniel - Tommy's dog and sidekick, who often discovers the problem.-Villains:...

 for BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

, Monkey Dust

Monkey Dust

Monkey Dust is a British satirical cartoon, notorious for its dark humour and handling of taboo topics such as murder, suicide and paedophilia. There were three series broadcast on BBC Three between 2003 and 2005...

 for Talkback and 8 Minute Expert for Discovery

Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...

 and music videos have included the bands Laika

Laika

Laika was a Soviet space dog that became the first animal to orbit the Earth – as well as the first animal to die in orbit.As little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the time of Laika's mission, and the technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, there...

 and Ian Wills and the Willing. In 2001 the short film Daddy, written and directed by Stephen Cavalier at Spy Pictures, won the Mesh award for digital animation at the Edinburgh Film Festival.