Rough Draft Studios

Rough Draft Studios, Inc. is an American animation production studio based in Glendale, California, United States, with a second studio in Glendale and its sister studio Rough Draft Korea located in Seoul, South Korea. Rough Draft Studios was founded in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California by Gregg Vanzo. The studio produces animation for film and television; including: The Simpsons Movie, Futurama, Great Britain's Full English, Napoleon Dynamite, Sit Down, Shut Up, Drawn Together, Baby Blues, The Maxx, Star Wars: Clone Wars, the Spy vs. Spy shorts on MADtv and others. The Korean studio does work on the aforementioned, as well as shows from other studios, such as The Simpsons, SpongeBob SquarePants, Gravity Falls, Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Beavis and Butt-head, Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Phineas and Ferb, Rocko's Modern Life, and many others.

It is the primary contractor and a commercials and several direct-to-video work for Paramount Pictures, Geffen Pictures, MTV Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, Cartoon Network Studios, 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Animation, Gracie Films, Film Roman, Paramount Animation, United Plankton Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Warner Bros. Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Blue Sky Studios, Peanuts Worldwide, LLC, and Universal Uclick, Walt Disney Television Animation division of produced of direct-to-video film and television films coordination done of Rough Draft Korea: Stitch! The Movie, Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama, Phineas and Ferb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown, Phineas and Ferb: Summer Belongs to You! and Phineas and Ferb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown Hosted by Kelly Osbourne, adaptations all.

Founding
Rough Draft Studios was 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. In Korea, Nikki Vanzo founded and runs Rough Draft Korea.

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. 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". 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.

Films

 * RoboCop 3 (1993) - "Johnny Rehab" commercial animation
 * Duck Dodgers: Attack of the Drones (2003, Warner Bros. theatrical short)
 * The Whizzard of Ow (2003, Warner Bros. theatrical short)
 * Inside the CIA (2005) - An American Dad! theatrical short
 * The Simpsons Movie (2007, 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Animation and Gracie Films, co-animation with Film Roman)
 * Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007, 30th Century Fox Animation, The Curiosity Company, Comedy Central, and 30th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Direct-to-video)
 * Futurama: Bender's Game (2008, 30th Century Fox Animation, The Curiosity Company, Comedy Central, and 30th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Direct-to-video)
 * Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs - (2008, 30th Century Fox Animation, The Curiosity Company, Comedy Central, and 30th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Direct-to-video)
 * Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009, 30th Century Fox Animation, The Curiosity Company, Comedy Central, and 30th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Direct-to-video)
 * How Murray Saved Christmas - (2014) Universal, television film

TV series

 * The Maxx - MTV
 * Futurama - 30th Century Fox Television / 20th Century Fox Television / Comedy Central
 * Baby Blues - Warner Bros. Animation
 * Drawn Together - Comedy Partners/Comedy Central
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - Cartoon Network Studios / Lucasfilm
 * Sit Down Shut Up! - 20th Century Fox Television / Sony Pictures Television International
 * Good Vibes (pilot) - MTV
 * Napoleon Dynamite - 20th Century Fox Television
 * Full English - Co-production with Squirrelman Prod for UK, Channel 4
 * Disenchantment - Netflix

Other

 * Spy vs. Spy shorts on MADtv (with Quincy David Jones and Korea)
 * 2003 Wendy's "Go Wild" commercial starring the Looney Tunes characters, promoting Looney Tunes: Back in Action
 * 59th Primetime Emmy Awards - Brian and Stewie Griffin opening number
 * A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith 

Outsourced projects
RDK, Rough Draft studios' sister studio in Korea has produced overseas animation for the following series, features and specials:

Films

 * Achmed Saves America
 * Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996, Paramount Pictures, Geffen Pictures and MTV Films)
 * The Electric Piper (2000, Nickelodeon Studios)
 * FernGully: The Last Rainforest
 * Hotel Transylvania (2012, Sony Pictures Animation; Title sequence)
 * Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015, Sony Pictures Animation; End title sequence)
 * Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama (2005, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run
 * P. J. Sparkles (Opening titles only)
 * Phineas and Ferb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown (2009, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * Phineas and Ferb: Summer Belongs To You! (2010, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * Phineas and Ferb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown Hosted by Kelly Osbourne (2013, Walt Disney Television Animation)
 * The Pink Panther 2 (2009) - Opening title sequence only
 * The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002, Warner Bros. Pictures and Cartoon Network Studios)
 * The Story of Santa Claus
 * The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004, Paramount Pictures, United Plankton Pictures, and Nickelodeon Movies)
 * The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water - (2015, Paramount Animation, United Plankton Pictures, and Nickelodeon Movies; 2D hand-drawn animated sequences only)
 * Stitch! The Movie (2003, Walt Disney Television Animation)

TV series

 * Benjamin Blümchen
 * Clash-a-Rama! the Animated Series
 * DJ & the Fro
 * Good Vibes
 * Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
 * Revisioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series (some episodes)
 * Spy Groove


 * Adelaide Productions
 * Jumanji
 * Dilbert
 * Jackie Chan Adventures
 * Dragon Tales
 * Sammy
 * Harold and the Purple Crayon
 * The Boondocks (early Season 1 eps)
 * Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
 * Sit Down, Shut Up
 * Cartoon Network Studios
 * What a Cartoon!/The Cartoon Cartoon Show (Some of the shorts)
 * Dexter's Laboratory
 * Johnny Bravo
 * Cow and Chicken
 * The Powerpuff Girls
 * I Am Weasel
 * The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
 * Evil Con Carne
 * Grim & Evil
 * The Flintstones: On the Rocks
 * Samurai Jack (Season 1-4)
 * Samurai Jack (season 5) (XCVIII)
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?
 * The Life & Times of Juniper Lee
 * Camp Lazlo
 * Sunday Pants ("Periwinkle Around the World")
 * Squirrel Boy
 * Class of 3000
 * Ben 10: Alien Force
 * Adventure Time
 * Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
 * Sym-Bionic Titan
 * Ben 10: Omniverse
 * Uncle Grandpa
 * Steven Universe
 * We Bare Bears
 * Ignition
 * Curious Pictures
 * Sheep in the Big City
 * Codename: Kids Next Door
 * Disney Television Animation
 * Timon & Pumbaa
 * ''The Legend of Tarzan
 * Kim Possible
 * Brandy & Mr. Whiskers (Season 2)
 * ''Lilo and Stitch: The Series
 * American Dragon: Jake Long (Season 2)
 * The Replacements
 * Phineas and Ferb
 * Gravity Falls
 * Star vs. the Forces of Evil (starting from episode 8, then season 2)
 * Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer
 * Big Hero 6: The Series
 * Film Roman
 * The Critic
 * Eek! Stravaganza (Klutter! segments only)
 * King of the Hill
 * The Oblongs
 * The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
 * Fox Television Animation
 * The Simpsons (1992–present)
 * Family Guy (Seasons 2–3 production order only)
 * American Dad! (Pilot episode only)
 * Bob's Burgers (some end credit sources)
 * MTV Animation
 * Beavis & Butt-Head
 * The Brothers Grunt
 * Clone High
 * Daria
 * Nickelodeon Animation Studio
 * The Ren & Stimpy Show
 * Rocko's Modern Life (season 4 only)
 * The Angry Beavers
 * CatDog
 * Oh Yeah! Cartoons
 * SpongeBob SquarePants
 * ChalkZone (season 1 only)
 * My Life as a Teenage Robot
 * Danny Phantom
 * Catscratch
 * The X's
 * The Mighty B!
 * Random! Cartoons
 * Rough Draft Studios
 * Futurama
 * Baby Blues
 * Drawn Together
 * Napoleon Dynamite
 * Warner Bros. Animation
 * 3-South
 * MADtv (Spy vs Spy shorts)
 * Pinky and the Brain
 * Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain
 * Baby Looney Tunes
 * Duck Dodgers
 * Tom and Jerry Tales (Some later Season 2 episodes)
 * The Looney Tunes Show
 * Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (second season, two episodes only)
 * Wabbit
 * Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
 * Williams Street
 * Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
 * The Venture Bros. (Seasons 1-2 production order)