Rough Draft Studios

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Rough Draft Studios, Inc.

Type	private
Founded	Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, 1991
Founder(s)	Gregg Vanzo
Headquarters	Glendale, California, United States Seoul, South Korea
Key people	Gregg Vanzo, Nikki Vanzo, Claudia Katz, Rich Moore
Industry	Film and television animation
Website	www.roughdraftstudios.com

Rough Draft Studios, Inc. (RDS) is an animation studio based in Glendale, California, United States with its sister studio Rough Draft Korea located in Seoul, South Korea. RDS was founded in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California by Gregg Vanzo. The studio has provided animation for television shows such as The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Maxx, The Simpsons, Futurama, American Dad!, Family Guy, SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Powerpuff Girls.

Contents 1 Founding 2 Growth in business 3 Technology 4 Filmography 4.1 Feature films 4.2 TV series 4.3 Ink and paint 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Founding

Rough Draft Studios was originally founded in a Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California garage by Gregg Vanzo and his wife Nikki Vanzo. While working on The Ren & Stimpy Show, Nikki Vanzo approached John Kricfalusi, creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, about taking the animation to Korea.^[1] In Korea, Nikki Vanzo founded and runs Rough Draft Korea.^[1]

[edit] Growth in business

After working on The Ren & Stimpy Show, many other shows requested the assistance of Rough Draft Korea in animation and ink & paint. In 1992, Rough Draft Studios began producing animation for The Simpsons and then for Beavis and Butt-Head in 1993. Also in 1993, Gregg's brother Scott Vanzo was brought on board. Rough Draft Korea quickly built a strong portfolio in the animation business with shows like their first series The Maxx in 1995, which was nominated for an Annie Award.^[2] Claudia Katz, who had joined Rough Draft Studios in 1994 to produce The Maxx, and Rich Moore, joining in 1995 after having worked with Gregg on The Simpsons, completed the core of a Rough Draft Studios which would help "drive the cartoon boom of the late ‘90s".^[3] It was also in 1995 that Rough Draft Studios moved to Glendale, California.

[edit] Technology

Rough Draft Studios is known for its blending of 2-D with computer animation, or non-photorealistic rendering which it first used on The Maxx and further utilized with Futurama and The Simpsons Movie.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Feature films

• Cool World (1992)^[4]
• FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
• The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001)
• Recess: School's Out (2001)
• Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009) (Direct-to-Video)
• Futurama: Bender's Game (2008) (co-production with 20th Century Fox; Direct-to-video)
• Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008) (co-production with 20th Century Fox; Direct-to-video)
• The Simpsons Movie (2007)
• Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007) (co-production with 20th Century Fox; Direct-to-video)
• Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005) (Direct-to-video; co-production with Fuzzy Door Productions & 20th Century Fox)
• Duck Dodgers - Attack of the Drones - Warner Bros. Theatrical Short
• The Whizzard of Ow - Warner Bros. Theatrical Short
• American Dad! in Inside the CIA - (co-production with 20th Century Fox, Underdog Productions & Fuzzy Door Productions; 20th Century Fox Theatrical Short)
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - (co-production with Paramount Pictures & Nickelodeon Movies)
• Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)^[4]
• Titan A.E. (2000) - (with Fox Animation Studios)

[edit] TV series

• Sit Down Shut Up! - 20th Century Fox / Sony
• Futurama - 20th Century Fox
• Drawn Together - Comedy Central
• Baby Blues - Warner Bros.
• The Mummy: The Animated Series - Universal
• The Simpsons - 20th Century Fox
• Star Wars: Clone Wars I & II- Cartoon Network
• Rocko's Modern Life - Nickelodeon
• The Angry Beavers - Nickelodeon
• SpongeBob SquarePants - Nickelodeon
• The Maxx - MTV

[edit] Ink and paint

RDS' overseas Korean studio has produced ink & paint and animation for the following series, features and specials:

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site

v • d • e Rough Draft Studios Feature films Cool World (1992) • FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) • Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) • Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999) • Titan A.E. (2000) • Recess: School's Out (2001)  • The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) • Inside the CIA (2005) • Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005) • The Simpsons Movie (2007) • Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007) • Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008) • Futurama: Bender's Game (2008) • Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009) Short films Duck Dodgers - Attack of the Drones • Inside the CIA • Looney Tunes - The Whizzard of Ow • Spy vs. Spy TV series Baby Blues • Drawn Together • Futurama • The Maxx • The Mummy: The Animated Series • The Simpsons • Sit Down, Shut Up • The New Woody Woodpecker Show • Star Wars: Clone Wars • American Dad! • Family Guy • The Cleveland Show • SpongeBob SquarePants • Rocko's Modern Life • The Angry Beavers • CatDog Staff Gregg Vanzo (President) • Claudia Katz (Sr. Vice President) • Rich Moore (Sr. Vice President of Creative Affairs) • Scott Vanzo (Chief Technology Officer) Related companies 20th Century Fox Television • Comedy Central • Adult Swim • Gracie Films • Universal Animation Studios • The Curiosity Company • Nickelodeon • Paramount Pictures • Walt Disney Television Animation • Warner Bros. Animation