Starting in the fall of 1999, it airs in over 25 countries around the world. To produce Monster By Mistake , Catapult operates a computer animation studio in downtown Toronto with a staff of over 50 talented computer animators, artists and technical support people. The studio features state of the art SGI computer systems and Windows NT networking and rendering systems. SGI O2 workstations, three SGI Indy workstations, three Windows NT paint box computers and a render farm using 24 Pentium II processors. The studio has over 500 gigabytes of storage space connected to four SGI Origin servers.
All data is backed up daily using a robotic tape system.
For more information about the production of Monster by Mistake , click here . Kim Davidson, Mark Mayerson and Rob Smith, the principals of Catapult, each have more than a dozen years of experience in the computer animation business. Prior to forming Catapult Productions, they had worked on broadcast graphics for major Canadian networks, television commercials, theme park rides and several television series. For more detailed information on the people behind Catapult, click here . In addition to Monster , Catapult has developed and is developing other television series as well as feature films.