Vanguard Animation

Vanguard Films & Animation, often named only as Vanguard Animation, is an American production studio founded in 2002 by producer John H. Williams and Neil Braun. The studio has offices in Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada and Ealing Studios in London, England, United Kingdom. Starz Media owns the studio's minority stake.

History

The studio was founded in 2002 by John H. Williams. For its launch, it signed with Ealing Studios a four-picture deal to produce sub-$40 million computer-animated films. The following year, Vanguard sold a minority stake to IDT Corporation and partnered with its animation unit, Digital Production Solutions, to co-produce and co-own all Vanguard's properties, including Valiant (2005) produced for Disney.

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

• Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance

Unproduced projects

• Citizen Siege - A science fiction thriller CGI-animated film that was to be co-produced by Vanguard and video game developer Oddworld Inhabitants. The plot involves an expatriate who returns home to find that he has been repossessed, in a shady underhive-like world where a corporate government rules the continent. The film was originally scheduled to release in 2009, but the date was pushed back to an unknown date. As of 2019, there have been no recent developments regarding the film's production.
• Alien Rock Band
• Rotten Island
• Buzby
• City of Dragons
• Atomic Circus
• Oz Wars
• Ribbit
• The Twits
• Galaxy High
• The Gnome King

See also

• List of computer-animated films

References

External links

• Official website