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A Showreel You Can Walk Through We’ve always believed that how you present your work should be as creative as the work itself. So instead of sending out another traditional showreel link, we decided to turn ours into a game. This project is an alpha build of a small Unreal Engine experience where you play as our TinToy logo icon, moving through a series of environments that double as our interactive showreel. It’s playful, a little weird, and very much us. If a game isn't for

BTS from a TinToy set Much has been said about the state of the film industry in South Africa. And the truth is that for most production companies and crew, whether large or small, 2025 has been a difficult year. The CPA, other production bodies and even the City of Cape Town have pulled together task teams to try understand what is happening. The reality is that there isn’t one simple cause. It is all of it at once. A slow economy. A world drowning in content. AI hanging ove

When Dialogue called, they had a challenge that made us pause.“Can you make geysers... TikTok-able?” We’ve tackled some unusual briefs before, and this one was right up there. Kwikot wanted to reach a broader, digital audience. The ask? A series of short, scroll-stopping TikTok videos that would make people actually want to watch something about geysers. So, after a few brainstorming sessions, and some questionable plumbing puns, we found our angle: A nine-part mini-series m

TinToy Team Talks Topics in Ten Minutes is a very casual discussion of various topics related, but often times not, to media, television & filmmaking. We try really do our best to come in under 10 minutes but we make no promises. The show is hosted by Duran Barnett but he is joined by various team members of TinToy Films. Bellow are the first 9 episodes! Episode 1: The Monster (Energy Drink) Mash LISTEN: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5HCOvBeu4ZvFxosuEMSyeG?si=56be16f4d5ef4