Tuwa Studio is one person, in Karachi.

That is worth saying on the first line, because you are probably reading this after an email from a name you did not recognise.

Who is behind it

My name is Shariq Shaikh. I have been a software engineer for seven years, most of it building backend and full-stack systems for clients in the United States and Europe. That is still my trade. Tuwa Studio is a second thing I built on purpose, because the animation my own community is offered is mostly worse than what every other child watches.

I write the scripts, build the shot lists, run the render pipeline, cut the edit and deliver the files. There is no team behind this page. If you hire the studio, the person who answers your email is the person who does the work — which is either the appeal or the objection, depending on what you need.

How the work is made

Every episode starts as a written shot list, not a prompt. Each beat is boarded, generated, checked, then assembled to a narration track with subtitles. The pipeline is code I wrote and maintain; it renders the same ad in both 16:9 and 9:16 from one specification, which is why a single ad can be delivered in both ratios without doubling the cost.

That is an honest description of a small operation: the tooling is good, and the catalogue is small. One finished episode, a set of short-form cuts, and a renderer that turns a brief into a finished 30-second ad.

On depicting prophets

The studio never depicts a prophet. Where one appears in a story, the figure is shown as light — no face, no features — a convention approved by a scholar. In the formal review of the studio’s 38 social-media stills, it held in every one.

If your institution follows its own guidance on imagery, music or narration, send it. It is easier to build inside your rules than to argue about a finished file.

Why this is affordable

A studio in London or Chicago quotes what a studio in London or Chicago has to quote. My costs are different, and that difference is the whole reason the prices on this site are possible — not a discount, just a different set of numbers.

Run by
Shariq Shaikh
Based in
Karachi, Pakistan
Working with
Islamic and weekend schools, madrasahs and children’s publishers in the US and UK
Clients so far
None yet. The studio is new, and this page won’t pretend otherwise.
Elsewhere
LinkedIn — seven years of work history you can check, which is the real question here.

Ask anything before you commit.

Including the awkward questions — where I am, who else is involved, what happens if I disappear.

Email Shariq