Ben Le Tourneau

Executive Producer | Studio Lead | Creative Architect

16 years building one of London’s few creative studios where live action and CGI operated as a single production pipeline.

I’ve hired teams, shaped creative output, developed new services, won clients, owned budgets and delivered campaigns from pitch to final delivery.

16
Years building & leading the studio
20
Core team, 25+ on a shoot
40+
Projects a year, 10 at once
£500K
Largest single project budget

My role

For 16 years I built and scaled one of London’s few studios where live-action production and CGI sat under one roof, recruiting and developing multidisciplinary teams, designing production workflows, introducing new capabilities, growing client relationships and balancing creative ambition with commercial reality. Clients included Adidas, Samsung, GSK, Nestlé and Toyota; agency partners included Ogilvy, McCann and Havas.

Having built that capability from the ground up, I’m now looking to bring the same blend of creative leadership, executive production and commercial thinking to an ambitious in-house team, agency or production business.

01

Creative Leadership

Develop concepts, shape campaigns end to end, mentor and direct creative teams.

02

Executive Production

Own the budget, the schedule and the client relationship, from pitch to delivery.

03

Studio Leadership

Hiring, team growth, workflow design and the commercial strategy behind a production business.

04

Innovation

Identify and integrate emerging production technologies before they're standard practice — from early CGI workflows to AI-assisted production, a constant thread throughout my career.

Leadership

I believe the best creative work comes from giving specialists enough structure to excel without getting in their way. My role has never been to have every answer — it’s to build the right team, ask the right questions, and create an environment where ideas can become outstanding work.

Selected work

Live Action | CGI | Photography | Animation | AI | Executive Production

LIVE ACTION + CGI

A surreal and lively TVC broadcast campaign directed and produced for Agency Elvis.

Directed & Executive Produced

PRINT + SOCIAL

Samsung QLED, 18-Month integrated Campaign mixing mediums for Agency BMB

Directed & Executive Produced

EXPLAINER ANIMATIONS

Murex, Met Office & Toyota – Narrative-led films that transform complex ideas into visual stories.

Creative Directed & Produced

BROADCAST ANIMATION

A bold and dynamic opening title sequence for World Curling’s live global broadcasts.

Creative Directed & Produced

FILM, CGI ANIMATION, PRINT

An integrated film, animation and stills campaign for ROLI’s next-generation music technology.

Executive Produced & Directed

ABOVE-THE-LINE

Creating and delivering campaigns for Godiva, Post Office, Cadbury, Uniqlo and more.

Shot, Directed & Post-Produced

Work for Social Change

Beyond client work, I create personal campaigns aimed at real-world impact, three I’m especially proud of:

ASTi

Multiple campaigns against acid violence that fed into legislation restricting the sale of corrosive substances.

Creative Directed & Produced

Long Live Southbank

A neon-lit, digitally-signed campaign that helped preserve London’s Southbank skate park.

Creative Directed & Produced

WasteAid

A stop-motion zoetrope promoting e-waste recycling, made pro bono, now used in government advocacy.

Creative Directed & Produced

Trusted by, and hearing from

Ben and The Operators helped us turn a complex technical subject into a clear and visually engaging CGI explainer film that connected with both internal teams and external audiences. They worked closely with us to create a visual style that aligned with our brand and added real clarity to our API catalogue. The process was collaborative, efficient and highly solution focused. We would gladly recommend them and look forward to future projects together.

Clementine Deniel

Head of Marketing & Communications – Murex

Ben and the team bring a dynamic mix of creative vision and technical craft. We first invited Ben to present to the UK Government Creator Network, where the response from members was overwhelmingly positive. When we later needed to bring the Met Office brand to life through a showcase film, they were a natural choice. Despite a limited budget, The Operators helped us communicate complex themes around environmental science, big data and innovation with clarity and impact. The team were organised, proactive and genuinely collaborative throughout, going above and beyond to ensure both our internal teams and stakeholders were proud of the final result. It was a pleasure working together on a challenging and rewarding project.

Ross Middleham

Creative Lead – Met Office

Working with Ben and The Operators was a pleasure. They not only delivered a high-quality opening animation, they developed a unique visual style that captured the energy and excitement of World Curling. Their creativity and expertise made the process effortless. Highly recommend.

Belinda Bantle-Carboni

WCTV Production Manager / Host Broadcast Producer – World Curling

Ben and the team brought our Airwave launch to life with energy and craft. Despite a challenging schedule, they helped to creatively develop and deliver standout films, animations and print materials that captured the essence of the brand perfectly

Luke Barton

Director of Marketing – Roli

Ben approached our small charity, WasteAid, offering to create a video for us to help raise awareness of e-waste recycling. When I saw the first mock-up I was amazed! It is such an original idea and executed beautifully. The Operators’ work adds charm and humour to what can otherwise be a serious subject. Their video makes the whole subject of e-waste personal and accessible, and they did it all for free, to support WasteAid. We feel very fortunate to have the involvement of The Operators on this campaign. The team are so kind and generous, and I really hope we get to work together again.

Zoë Lenkiewicz

Senior Technical Advisor & Head of Communications – WasteAid

Working with Ben and The Operators has been an incredibly rewarding collaboration. Across multiple campaigns, they have helped us communicate sensitive and powerful stories with creativity, empathy and impact. Their versatility and ability to adapt ideas to different formats and budgets have been invaluable in helping ASTi raise awareness.

Jaf Shah

Executive Director – ASTi

It has been fantastic to partner with the Operators Creative over the last few years. Ben, and his team are able to provide technical guidance, supporting our agency team with insight and ideas to ensure that we deliver best in class CGI animations. The results are always great, including recent awards for Innovation and Animation at the PM Digital Awards we are all very proud of.

Zuleika Burnett

Executive Director, Creative and Innovation – SMA Babies

The Operators are one of our trusted creative partners who have helped OneWeb develop a unique brand identity and visual language which we now use across our animations and visual content.
They are a forward-thinking creative company who immerse themselves in the brand and take time to understand the customer proposition and audience persona. Content quality and customer service remain at the forefront of everything they do. They have consistently delivered on time, on brief and within budget. I can say with conviction that your visual marketing comms are in safe hands with The Operators.

Nick Maynard

Senior Marketing Consultant – OneWeb

Ben & Scott are proper gents of the highest order, combining bags of can-do attitude and a fantastic eye for detail. They also happen to be lovely human beings, and an absolute delight to work with. Get some!

Ben Lunt

Executive Digital Director – Samsung

The Operators are a class act. Be sure to get them involved early on, as they really get behind the creative concepts and work them hard to make the final output outstanding. We are all very impressed with the effort from their whole team and the attention to detail that has gone into the films.

Dan Jerrard

Creative Director – Monkey Shoulder

Ben, Scott and their team are some of the most professional, amiable and hardworking people in the biz. They won’t rest until what they deliver is of the highest quality. We’re officially fans.

Ross Dexter & Matthew Comras

Senior Creative team – Heineken

Why Now

I’ve spent 16 years proving I can build a creative production business. The next chapter is about applying that experience inside an organisation with greater scale — leading people, shaping creative output and building capability, rather than running every part of a company.

Earlier Credits

MirriAd

Helped build an automated, AI-driven product-placement solution — and set up a production pipeline spanning studios in the UK, India and the USA.

Imagineer Systems

Worked on and helped launch Mocha an Academy Award winning VFX tool — where the “innovation” thread in my work started, before I went and built a studio to put it into practice.

UCA Farnham

MA Animation (First Class) · BA Hons Animation (2.1)

Cut to Next role

Executive Producer · Studio Lead · Creative Leadership — in-house brand teams, agencies scaling production, or brand-direct studios.