ABOUT THE STUDIO

Behind The Codex
is a studio
with one purpose

To help shorten the distance between people and the living world.

WHY WE EXIST

We have never had more ways
to look at nature.
Yet it can still feel strangely distant.

The living world hasn’t disappeared.

It is still outside our doors, beneath our feet and moving around us.

The relationship has simply become harder to reach.

OUR STARTING POINT

Protection begins
when distance
shortens.

Because people are more likely to protect what they have learned to notice, care about and feel connected to.

So before asking someone to save the living world,
we begin by helping them come closer to it.

 

WHAT WE DO

We build worlds that bring you back into relationship with your own. 

Not worlds that ask you to leave your own behind. 

We use story, illustration and real encounters with the living world to make relationship something that can continue beyond the story itself. 

Because if a world we create changes what you notice outside your own door, then the story hasn’t simply entertained you. 

It has shortened the distance. 

And our first world is The Codex.

BEHIND THE STUDIO

I spent a long time thinking I’d lost him. Not because he disappeared.
 
But because the world became louder than the things that used to make me feel alive. I think some parts of us don’t leave completely, though.
 
They wait quietly in places still capable of wonder. In rivers. In fields. In small living things.
 
Sometimes all it takes is staying still long enough for them to find us again.
 
That return changed something. I started noticing again.
 

Not just individual animals or plants, but the relationships between them. The way one life depends on another. The lives I had walked past without understanding what I was looking at.

And I began wondering whether stories could help somebody else make that return too.
 
Woodland Superheroes Studios grew from that question.
 
Not to create somewhere else for people to disappear into. But to build worlds that might change what they notice when they come back.
 
Dave Clarke
Founder & Creator

THE DOORWAY

OUR FIRST
WORLD

The Codex

The world was never EMPTY.

WOODLAND SUPERHEROES
STUDIOS

We build worlds that bring you back into relationship with your own.

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Design by Woodland Superheroes Studios.

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