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
British Columbia
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,
Canada
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and
Ealing Studios
Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London. Will Barker bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making, and films have been made on the site ever ...
in
London
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,
England
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,
United Kingdom
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.
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
Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London. Will Barker bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making, and films have been made on the site ever ...
a four-picture deal to produce sub-$40 million computer-animated films.
The following year, Vanguard sold a minority stake to
IDT Corporation
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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
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.
Filmography
Feature films
Upcoming
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
Oddworld Inhabitants Inc. is an American video game, film and television company founded in 1994 by special-effects and computer-animation veterans Sherry McKenna and Lorne Lanning. The company is primarily known for the ''Oddworld'', series o ...
.
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
is a science fiction animated series that premiered on September 13, 1986 on CBS and ran for 13 episodes until December 6, 1986. The series was created by Chris Columbus and featured music and a theme song composed by Don Felder. The series was ...
''
*''The Gnome King''
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See also
* List of computer-animated films
A computer-animated film is a feature film that has been computer-animated to appear three-dimensional. While traditional 2D animated films are now made primarily with the help of computers, the technique to render realistic 3D computer graphics ...
References
External links
*
American animation studios
Film production companies of the United States
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