The studio is best known for its animated feature films Adventures in Zambezia[1] (2012), Khumba (2013), and Seal Team (2021),[2] as well as the work they have done on television specials created for UK producers Magic Light Pictures.

[3] In 2017, Revolting Rhymes again won the Cristal for best TV production at the Annecy Festival,[4] and was nominated for the Best Short Film (Animated) Oscar at the 2018 Academy Awards.

[7] In 2021, The Snail and The Whale won Best Special Production at The Annie Awards,[8] while Triggerfish received the Mifa Animation Industry Award at Annecy for "the pioneering role that the company has played in animation in South Africa, and Africa most widely.”[9] In 2022, their third film, Seal Team, made the Netflix Top 10 Films global list for its launch week.

In 2018, Triggerfish released an original 4-minute short entitled Belly Flop, co-directed by Jeremy Collins and writer Kelly Dillon.

[15] From 2006, the team began to shift focus to motion pictures by writing their first script Adventures in Zambezia, with US-based rights company Wonderful Works.

[6] In February 2021, it was announced that eOne had greenlit the animated superhero series Kiya & the Kimoja Heroes, about a seven-year-old African girl whose passions in life are dancing and martial arts.

The original idea for Kiya & the Kimoja Heroes was created by Kelly Dillon and Marc Dey, then developed for television by Robert Vargas.

The development process was curated and produced by the team at Triggerfish, including Tendayi Nyeke, Anthony Silverston, and Kevin Kriedemann, who proposed the initial idea for the anthology.

[28] In June 2019 Triggerfish launched a free online learning platform aimed at encouraging young creatives to create their first animated film.