Development
Shaping concepts, worlds, tone, characters, story engines and pitch-facing creative direction when an animated project has promise but needs a clearer foundation.
Secret Starbase
A creative conspiracy for animated ideas
Animation development, EP support and senior creative oversight for ambitious animated projects
Mission
Characters, worlds and stories built to ignite emotion and travel far
Secret Starbase supports studios, creatives and IP owners when animated projects with global ambition need sharper story, clearer creative direction, senior EP support, co-production thinking or a UK-based creative production base.
Series
Specials
Features
Shorts
Franchise Extensions
Original IP
Exec production
Hands-on creative EP support across scripts, animatics, design, voice, animation, compositing, music and mixes — when a show needs senior creative navigation through production.
Creative leadership
Clear notes, sharp story judgement and practical creative advice for producers, studios and rights holders turning early potential into confident, audience-ready animation.
Founder
Gerardo Orlando
Creative Executive · Executive Producer · Story Conspirator
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Gerardo Orlando is an animation creative executive and executive producer with 16+ years’ experience leading the creative direction of internationally distributed animated series from development through final delivery.
Formerly a senior Disney EMEA animation executive, he worked as a creative executive across a large slate of animated series and as Disney-side series executive producer on Dragon Striker, collaborating hands-on with writers, script editors, directors, story artists, voice directors, producers and studios.
His work spans preschool, kids, family co-viewing and older-skewing animation — including script and board-driven comedies, action-adventures, franchise storytelling, original IP and serialised projects.
Selected series shaped through Disney-side creative executive oversight include:
Work
Released work and active projects
Some Secret Starbase released work and active development can be named. Some is still waiting behind the airlock...
Dragon Striker:
Meet the Players
Creative Consultancy: concept, story development and creative supervision of an 11 x 2' series introducing the world and characters of Dragon Striker.
Watch the shorts
The Very End
Creative Consultancy: creative supervision of a music video based on Dragon Striker's
end-credit song.
25 x 30" SHORTS SERIES
1 x SHORT VIDEO
22' FANTASY SERIES
22' ADVENTURE SERIES
Original projects
Secret Starbase Original Slate
Secret Starbase also develops original animated projects of its own: story worlds, characters and formats built with emotion, edge, adventure and an eye to the future.
The first ideas are still being whispered among the conspirators, so watch this space...
Coming soon
Make contact
For development conversations, partnerships and collaborations
Get in touch for animated projects that need sharper story, stronger direction, senior EP support or practical creative firepower.