Our Vision
We are Sinai Animation, an independent 2d animation studio, based in Cyprus and founded in 2022. We create projects featuring the lives of Martyrs and Saints. Swimming against the mainstream media, we want to offer families entertainment, that moves, inspires, and educates along the way. Our scenarios are based on traditional values, which connect people around the world and create harmony and peace in the family households.
Furthermore, we are trying to stay as close to the historical biographies as possible while investing more time in an accurate representation of the time periods they lived in. We base the whole design on byzantine icons and their biographies.
We hope we can inspire you like the Saints inspired us for this work.
The Founders
Maria Petzolt
Co-founder | Director
Maria, graduated in the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, where she is still holding lectures today.
At 28 she has already proved her competence in the field as a 2D animator and animation supervisor to the 9 time - award-winning series SoulShift (2025), as well as lead animator and art director in the award-winning short film The Nightmare Artist (2021).
Her goal is to bring back Christian films to the family entertainment industry and make them "as amazing, as they used to be."
Saint Lukas of Simferopol inspired her to found Sinai Animation and honor God through her creative work.
Dimitris Siamili
Co-founder | Producer
Dimitris, one of the two founders of Sinai Animation graduated in the Theological Faculty of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki with postgraduate studies in Business Administration.
He is mainly responsible for the research and organisational part of the project. His vision is to help children approach the Saints easier, and learn through them about the orthodox faith, by writing their lives as engaging scenarios for families to enjoy and learn from.
The Team
The Sinai Animation team consists of artists and historians.
Our team is professionally experienced and educated in our craft, using state-of-the-art techniques and software.
The in-depth historical research increases the educational value of the project and gives us unique visuals, that differ strongly from mainstream media, making our series even more memorable.
Our films are 100% human-made! Sinai Animation decidedly rejects the use of Artificial Intelligence in their productions.
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