Rough Draft Studios

Rough Draft Studios, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Film and television animation
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
Divisions	Rough Draft Feature Animation RDS Animations
Subsidiaries	Green West Entertainment Main Street Pictures Ternion Pictures Microscope Films N Studios Melbourne Animation Studios Essex Productions Ash Ei Entertainment
Website	www.roughdraftstudios.com

Rough Draft Studios, Inc. (RDS) is an animation studio based in Glendale, California, United States,^[1] 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 Looney Tunes Show, The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Maxx, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Cleveland Show, Family Guy, Spy vs Spy, The Angry Beavers, SpongeBob SquarePants, Phineas and Ferb, Pinky and the Brain, and Dexter's Laboratory.

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.^[2] In Korea, Nikki Vanzo founded and runs Rough Draft Korea.^[2]

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.^[3] 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".^[4] It was also in 1995 that Rough Draft Studios moved to Glendale, California.

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.

Filmography

Feature films

• Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)^[5]
• Cool World (1992)^[5]
• Duck Dodgers: Attack of the Drones (2003) - Warner Bros. theatrical short
• FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
• 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)
• Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007) - (co-production with 20th Century Fox; Direct-to-video)
• Inside the CIA (2005)
• The Pink Panther 2 (2009) - opening titles
• The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)
• Recess: School's Out (2001)
• RoboCop 3 (1993) - "Johnny Rehab" commercial animation
• The Simpsons Movie (2007)
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
• The Whizzard of Ow (2003) - Warner Bros. theatrical short

TV series

• The Looney Tunes Show - Warner Bros. Animation
• The Cartoon Cartoon Show - Frederator Studios (1997–2008) / Cartoon Network Studios (1997–2008) / Hanna-Barbera Cartoons (1995–2000) / Chauncy-Street Productions, inc. (1995–1997) / Warner Bros. Animation (2001–2008)
• Sit Down Shut Up! - 20th Century Fox Television / Sony Pictures Television International
• Futurama - 30th Century Fox Television / 20th Century Fox Television / Comedy Central
• Drawn Together - Comedy Partners/Comedy Central
• Napoleon Dynamite - 20th Century Fox Television
• Baby Blues - Warner Bros. Animation
• The Mummy: The Animated Series - Universal Television
• Star Wars: Clone Wars I & II - Cartoon Network Studios / Lucasfilm
• The Maxx - MTV
• MADtv "Spy vs. Spy" segments - Fox / WB Television
• Dilbert - UPN / Yeson / Columbia TriStar Television / idbox / United Media / Adelaide Productions
• The Ren and Stimpy Show - Nickelodeon Animation Studio / Spümcø / Nickelodeon / Yeson
• Dave the Barbarian - Disney / Serena Animation Studio

Ink and paint

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

• Adventure Time
• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
• American Dragon: Jake Long (Season 2)
• The Angry Beavers
• Baby Looney Tunes
• Beavis & Butt-Head
• Ben 10: Alien Force
• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
• Brandy & Mr. Whiskers^[6]
• Camp Lazlo^[7]
• The Critic^[5]
• CatDog
• Catscratch
• Class of 3000
• The Cleveland Show
• ChalkZone
• Codename: Kids Next Door
• Cow and Chicken
• Danny Phantom
• Daria
• Detention
• Dexter's Laboratory
• Drawn Together
• Family Guy (Season 2 production order only)
• Evil Con Carne
• The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• Grim & Evil
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
• Hey Arnold!
• I Am Weasel
• Jackie Chan Adventures
• Johnny Bravo (Season 1)
• Johnny Test (season 1)
• Jumanji
• Kim Possible^[6]
• King of the Hill^[5]
• The Legend of Tarzan^[6]
• The Life & Times of Juniper Lee
• Lilo and Stitch: The Series^[6]
• The Mighty B!
• My Life as a Teenage Robot
• Napoleon Dynamite
• The New Woody Woodpecker Show
• The Oblongs
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons
• Phineas and Ferb
• Pinky and the Brain^[5]
• P. J. Sparkles (Opening titles only)
• The Powerpuff Girls
• Regular Show
• The Ren & Stimpy Show
• Robotomy
• Rocko's Modern Life^[5]
• The Replacements
• Samurai Jack
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (second season)
• Sheep in the Big City
• The Simpsons
• Secret Mountain Fort Awesome
• Sit Down, Shut Up
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Sonic Underground**
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Squirrel Boy
• Sym-Bionic Titan
• Tales of Friendship with Winnie the Pooh
• Timon & Pumbaa^[6]
• Tom and Jerry Tales (Some later Season 2 episodes)
• The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat^[6]
• What-A-Cartoon (Some of the shorts)
• Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?

References

External links

	Greater Los Angeles portal
	Companies portal
	Animation portal

• Official website