Five
After.
An original animated series about what happens around the game—and after it.
- FORMAT
- Animated series
- SEASON
- 11 episodes · approximately 20 minutes each
- WRITING
- Season written · pilot screenplay completed
- CREATED WITHIN
- Enter Play Field Studios Oy
The match brings them together. Life happens around it.
Five After follows a group of children around a Helsinki football pitch. Football gives them a shared place and rhythm; their friendships, tensions, choices and everyday discoveries give the series its stories.
The idea is to notice the moments that can be easy to overlook: the walk home, the conversation at the edge of the field, the five minutes after everyone thinks the game is over.
Ordinary life is interesting enough.
Small moments can carry big feelings.
The series approaches its characters with curiosity and warmth. Humour and play open the door, while the emotional centre comes from how the children see one another, misunderstand one another and grow together.
The football pitch is a recurring meeting place, not the limit of the world. It gives the stories a familiar point of return as relationships and possibilities expand beyond it.
A gang, a place, and room to grow.
The ensemble
The characters are designed to work as a group: distinct perspectives and personalities create energy, friction and changing alliances from episode to episode.
The Helsinki setting
The local pitch and its surroundings ground the story in a recognisable everyday world, leaving space for imagination without losing the human scale.
Beyond the game
Objects, places and recurring details can carry memory and meaning across episodes, making the world feel lived in rather than explained all at once.
A season arc
Eleven approximately 20-minute episodes give the friendships and individual stories time to unfold across a complete first season.
More than a concept.
The first season has been written as 11 approximately 20-minute episodes, and the pilot screenplay is complete. The project remains in development; the artwork here expresses its creative direction rather than a finished production.
Five After is the original series. Enter Play Field Studios is the company and interactive platform being built around original work like this.
Meet the studio behind it.
Explore how the company, interactive site and rights groundwork support the creative project.
EXPLORE ENTER PLAY FIELD ↗