Hewitt & Walker

What Hewitt & Walker does

Hewitt & Walker is a boutique film and animation production company founded in 2014 in York, United Kingdom, operating with a 1-10 person specialist team led by founder and Creative Director Ollie Bostock. The firm delivers end-to-end video production organised across five service pillars: corporate video, tourism and heritage films, animation, education, and heritage/museum installation content. Its technical stack combines 2D and 3D animation, drone filming, virtual production (XR), cinematic cinematography, post-production editing, colour grading, sound design, and motion graphics, executed primarily on industry-standard tools (After Effects, Premiere Pro).

The business operates a project-based, quote-based professional services model with no public pricing tiers, no recurring subscriptions, and no self-serve product. Customers are acquired through direct consultative engagement, with GTM split between a regional Yorkshire channel (cultural institutions, local government, SMEs) and a national/international channel (enterprise brands, broadcasters, tourism boards). The portfolio spans 20+ named clients across heritage (York Minster, English Heritage, National Railway Museum), enterprise brands (Rolls Royce, Mercedes-Benz, Adidas, M&S, John Lewis & Partners, Just Eat), tourism bodies (Visit York, Visit Britain, Visit England, North York Moors), and broadcasters (BBC Three, Channel 4/More4), with work distributed across cinema (China), in-flight (USA), and television (England) channels.

The company is privately held, founder-led, and independently operated with no evidence of external investment, parent entities, or M&A activity. Recent strategic emphasis is on up-market enterprise engagements, virtual production / XR capabilities, and recurring co-production partnerships (notably Button Down, with whom the firm has delivered two broadcast TV series). Revenue, headcount totals, and financial metrics are not publicly disclosed.

Name

Hewitt & Walker

Legal name

Hewitt & Walker

Website

https://hewittandwalker.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Hewitt & Walker is a York, UK-based boutique video and animation production company founded in 2014, delivering end-to-end film, animation, and virtual production services to enterprise brands, cultural institutions, tourism boards, and broadcasters across the UK and internationally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

York

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Video Production Projects: Hewitt & Walker generates revenue through project-based video production engagements. Projects include corporate videos, tourism films, brand films, animations, educational videos, heritage documentaries, social media content, and TV series work. Each project is scoped, produced, and delivered as a bespoke commission. Pricing is quote-based, tailored to each client's requirements, scope, and production complexity.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Hewitt & Walker is a York-based video production company that creates cinematic brand films, corporate videos, tourism and heritage films, animations, and educational content for brands, agencies, cultural institutions, and charities. The company delivers end-to-end production services spanning scriptwriting, storyboarding, filming, animation, drone work, virtual production, editing, colour grading, sound design, and motion graphics, with content optimised for digital, broadcast, and social platforms. Engagements are bespoke, project-based commissions priced per scope.

Product overview

Hewitt & Walker is a video production company offering a comprehensive suite of production services as a single unified offering, not a platform-plus-modules architecture. Their core service portfolio spans five main pillars: Corporate Video Production, Tourism Video Production, Animation Production, Education Video Production, and Heritage Video Production. Each pillar encompasses specific service offerings including adverts, social media content, internal communications, brand stories, destination marketing, visitor attractions, events campaigns, university/college films, school videos, e-learning content, STEM films, museum installations, and funding project documentation. The company also provides end-to-end production support through three phases: Pre-Production (scriptwriting, concept planning, storyboarding), Production (filmmaking, cinematography, directing), and Post-Production (editing, colour grading, sound design, animation). Their workflow is organized around four portfolio categories: Commercial & Business, Tourism & Heritage, Animation, and Education & Charity. Based in York since 2014, the company delivers content across all formats from social media to broadcast television.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Corporate Video Production
• Tourism Video Production
• Animation Production
• Education Video Production
• Heritage Video Production

Quantifiable outcome

• Tourism films have appeared on cinema screens in China, flights to America, and television across England.
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Button DowncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerButton Down is a production company that produces and directs television series. Hewitt & Walker collaborated with Button Down on BBC Three's Brickies (Seasons 1 and 2) and Channel Four's Steam Train Diaries (More4). For Brickies, Button Down shaped the tone and storytelling while Hewitt & Walker provided cinematography, editing, and post-production. For Steam Train Diaries, Button Down produced and directed the series and brought Hewitt & Walker on for DOP, camera, drone, editing, and series graphics.
• Viridian FXminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerViridian FX used detailed 3D scans of surviving fragments combined with deep historical research to reconstruct the 14th-century St William of York shrine. Hewitt & Walker produced the film that brought the Viridian FX reconstruction together with historical research into a cohesive narrative for the Undercroft Museum at York Minster.
• Energy Systems CatapultminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnergy Systems Catapult commissioned Hewitt & Walker alongside York City Council to document the renovation of a town house in York, focusing on green technologies including heat pumps, insulation, solar PV, and battery storage.
• York City CouncilminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerYork City Council partnered with Energy Systems Catapult to commission Hewitt & Walker for the Eco Homes in York documentary project documenting green technology renovation.
• First BusminorGTM or Marketing PartnerFirst Bus collaborated with Visit York and York Dungeon on the 'Most Haunted City in Europe' campaign. Hewitt & Walker directed the campaign from concept to final delivery.
• York DungeonminorGTM or Marketing PartnerYork Dungeon partnered with First Bus and Visit York on the 'Most Haunted City in Europe' faux Netflix-style tourism trailer produced by Hewitt & Walker.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Aardman Animations: Iconic UK animation studio producing feature films, series and branded content. Relevant comparable for Hewitt & Walker's 2D/3D animation service line, but operates at vastly larger scale and IP-ownership model.
• Knucklehead: Established UK film production company producing commercials, branded content and feature work. Overlaps with Hewitt & Walker's cinematic brand-film capability for major brands but operates at significantly larger scale.
• Passion Pictures: Established UK production company known for documentary, animation and branded content for global brands and broadcasters. Comparable in capability and client type but materially larger and longer-established than Hewitt & Walker.
• Framestore: Global VFX, animation and immersive content studio with UK roots. Comparable to the virtual production and XR capabilities Hewitt & Walker promotes, but orders of magnitude larger.

Direct peers

• PaperCuts: UK creative video production studio producing brand, corporate and animated content for B2B and consumer brands. Similar boutique positioning and sales-led, project-based engagement model.
• Storm & Shelter: Boutique UK creative video agency specialising in brand films, animation and social content for ambitious startups and global brands - an almost direct overlap with Hewitt & Walker's stated positioning.
• Pukka Films: UK video production agency producing brand films, corporate content and animation for major brands. Directly comparable in service mix (corporate video, animation, branded content) and client tier to Hewitt & Walker.
• Casual Films: UK-based boutique video production agency serving global brands with corporate, brand and animation work of comparable size and positioning to Hewitt & Walker. Operates in the same mid-market corporate video space with a similar sales-led, project-based model.
• Bespoke Film Crafts: UK boutique production company delivering corporate video, brand films and explainer animation to enterprise clients. Directly comparable boutique scale and service offering.

Others

• Rangers FC: Listed as a Hewitt & Walker customer (commissioned by Unibet) and not a peer; included here only to clarify that broadcast customers like BBC Three and Channel 4 are commissioning partners, not direct competitors in the boutique production space.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hewittandwalker

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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