The Legacy.
A focused selection from feature animation and prestige series to international co-productions. Strong visual authorship, tight craft, and production maturity.
Acclaimed Projects
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2025 | Producer / Director
International animated feature developed with ThoseProdGirls (South Africa) and Disnosc (France).
Scope: Screenwriting, concept art, look-dev, pipeline design
View details →Once Upon a Time in Amsterdam
2025 | Producer / Director
A surreal, memory-driven film developed with SeriousFilm (Netherlands). Choreography-led storytelling, symbolic transitions, and sound-first scene architecture.
Scope: Screenwriting, direction, visual grammar, proof-of-concept boards
View details →Aliens Are F*cking Real
2024 | Art Director
Darkly comic animated project for Character House (Helsinki). Led the visual system and style consistency across sequences.
Scope: Art direction, look bible, scene polish
View details →Merry Little Batman
2023 | Art Director
Warner Bros. Animation. Directed the visual cohesion on a high-stakes, family feature schedule.
Client: Warner Bros. Animation, Gigglebug Studios
View details →The Peripheral
2022 | 2D Animator · VFX Artist
Created stylized 2D composites for live-action plates in Amazon Prime’s sci-fi thriller. Focused on lens-accurate integration and temporal motion cues for futuristic HUDs.
Client: Amazon Studios and Warner Bros. Television & Kilter Films
View details →The Sandman
2021 | 2D Animator · Compositing Artist
Crafted dream-state sequences combining drawn elements with volumetric VFX. Balanced painterly atmospherics and narrative continuity across multiple episodes.
Client: Netflix, Submarine Studios
View details →Apollo 10½ – A Space Age Childhood
2020 | 2D Animator · Submarine Studios
Collaborated on rotoscoped sequences for Richard Linklater’s hybrid animated feature. Delivered expressive motion passes maintaining actor nuance within stylized design.
Client: Netflix, Submarine Studios
View details →The Vision
Mano Figa produces moving images across film, animation, and advertising. We combine cinematic instincts with rigorous art direction to make work that feels inevitable on screen.
Founded and led creatively by Napoléon Berk Şentürk, Mano Figa partners with studios across Europe and beyond. We thrive at the intersection of storytelling, design systems, and production pragmatism.
Meet the Core Team →The Directors & Producers
Napoléon Berk Senturk
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Napoléon provides the core artistic vision, known for helming the visual style of major features and driving the company's international co-production slate.
Jane Producer
Head of Production & Finance
Expert in financing complex international projects. Jane is key to ensuring cross-border partnerships thrive and creative visions are realized efficiently.
Robert King
Lead Art Director (Commercial)
Robert applies cinematic quality to our commercial division, focusing on high-end visual polish and unique artistic approaches for advertising campaigns.
The Future.
We design AI pipelines that serve directors and producers: faster look-dev, stronger boards, cleaner post. Less drift, more intent.
AI Case Studies
Generative Concept Art Pipeline
Innovation: Using diffusion models trained on specific style guides to rapidly generate thousands of style-consistent assets. Outcome: Reduced pre-production visual development time by 70%, accelerating look-dev for features.
Pre-Vis & AI Storyboards
Innovation: Utilizing image-to-image AI to quickly convert rough animatics into detailed, cinematic storyboard panels based on descriptive text prompts. Outcome: Faster director feedback cycles and improved pitch materials for funding.