Mercury Filmworks

**Mercury Filmworks** is a Canadian independent animation studio based in Ottawa, Canada, that produces animated features and TV shows for the likes of Disney, Netflix, Universal, Warner Brothers and Nickelodeon as well as the firm’s own original projects.

Mercury has provided Toon Boom animation production for several of Disney Television Animation's projects since 2010. Prior to their co-operation with Disney Television Animation, they provided additional animation for the song sequence "Someone Like Me" in DisneyToon Studios' _The Tigger Movie_.

Mercury Flimworks was founded in 1997 in Vancouver by Clint Eland, who is the current Chief Executive Officer. In 2004, Mercury Filmworks was transferred to Toronto and then Ottawa, where it currently resides. Mercury is about one of five local animation studios that are producing content for customers around the world and have helped Ottawa forge a reputation as an industry leader.

Mercury Filmworks has shown solid growth over the past decade and currently employs 250 people at its Ottawa location.

In 2014, the studio opened a stand-alone operation named Mercury Filmworks Europe in Dublin, Ireland.

## Television series

|Show|Year(s)|Co-production(s)|Notes|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_The Harveytoons Show_|1998|Harvey Films|intro and film restoration|||
|_Ned's Newt_|1998–99|Nelvana|Season 2|||
|_Yvon of the Yukon_|1999–2003|Studio B Productions|digital ink and paint|||
|_Mega Babies_|2000|CineGroupe||||
|_Rainbow Fish_|2000–2001|Decode Entertainment||||
|_Rescue Heroes_|2000–2002|Nelvana|Season 2-3|||
|_D'Myna Leagues_|2001–2002|Studio B Productions|digital paint|||
|_Undergrads_|2001|Decode Entertainment|digital ink and paint|||
|_Maggie and the Ferocious Beast_|rowspan="2"|2002|Nelvana|Season 3||
|_The New Woody Woodpecker Show_|rowspan="2"|Universal Television Animation|Season 3 (digital ink and paint)|||
|_Critter Mockers_|2004|Season 2||||
|_Dark Oracle_|2004-2005|Cookie Jar|Season 1|||
|_6teen_|2004-2006|Nelvana|Seasons 1–2|||
|_Mischief City_|rowspan="2"|2005|Shaftesbury Films|||
|_Krypto the Superdog_|Warner Bros. Animation|compositing, ink and paint||||
|_Gerald McBoing-Boing_|2005–2007|Cookie Jar||||
|_Class of the Titans_|2005–2008|Studio B Productions|digital ink and paint|||
|_Grossology_|rowspan="2"|2006-2007|rowspan="2"|Nelvana|Season 1|
|_Ruby Gloom_||||||
|_Weird Years_|2006|Lenz Entertainment||||
|_Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs_|rowspan="3"|2007-2008|CCI Entertainment|Season 2||
|_Wilbur_|Chilco Productions|||||
|_Wayside_|Nelvana|||||
|_World of Quest_|2008–2009|Cookie Jar||||
|_Toot and Puddle_|2008|National Geographic Kids||||
|_Jimmy Two-Shoes_|rowspan="2"|2009-2011|rowspan="2"|Breakthrough Entertainment||
|_Producing Parker_||||||
|_Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil_|2010–2012|Disney Television Animation||||
|_Doodlebops Rockin’ Road Show_|2010|Cookie Jar||||
|_Fish Hooks_|2010–2014|rowspan="2"|Disney Television Animation|||
|_Jake and the Never Land Pirates_|2011-2015|Seasons 1–3||||
|_Bad Seeds_|2012|Nickelodeon Animation Studios|pilot|||
|_Mickey Mouse_|2013–present|Disney Television Animation||||
|_Stella and Sam_|rowspan="2"|2013-2014|Radical Sheep Productions|Season 1 and specials||
|_Wander Over Yonder_|Disney Television Animation|Season 1||||
|_Fangbone!_|2014|Radical Sheep Productions|pilot|||
|_Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero_|2014–2017|rowspan="3"|Disney Television Animation|||
|_Star vs. the Forces of Evil_|rowspan="2"|2015|Season 1|||
|_Pickle and Peanut_|pilot|||||
|_If You Give a Mouse a Cookie_|2015–present|Amazon Studios||||
|_The Lion Guard_|rowspan="2"|2016–present|Disney Television Animation|||
|_Atomic Puppet_|Gaumont Animation|||||
|_Tangled: The Series_|rowspan="2"|2017–present|Disney Television Animation|||
|_Tales in Paradoria_|Universal Television Animation|||||
|_Hilda_|2018|Silvergate Media||||

## Specials/shorts

|Show|Year(s)|Co-production(s)|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_Little Witch_|1999|Sony Wonder|digital paint and effects|
|_Santa Mouse and the Ratdeer_|2000|Sony Wonder|digital ink and paint|
|_Timothy Tweedle the First Christmas Elf_|2000|Evening Sky||
|_Animated American_|2008|James Baker and Joe Haidar|short film|
|_The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar_|2015|Disney Television Animation||
|_Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special_|2016|Disney Television Animation||
|_Tangled: Before Ever After_|2017|Disney Television Animation||
|_The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular!_|2017|Disney Television Animation||
|_Oh Canada! A Coast to Coast Celebration of 150 Years_|2017||short film|
|_The Lion Guard: The Rise of Scar_|2017|Disney Television Animation||

## Films

|Show|Year(s)|Co-production(s)|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_The Tigger Movie_|2000|DisneyToon Studios|"Someone Like Me" sequence|
|_Joseph: King of Dreams_|2000|DreamWorks Animation||
|_Mistress Masham's Repose_|2000|Universal Feature Animation||
|_The Kid_|2001|Nelvana||
|_The Little Bear Movie_|2001|Nelvana||
|_The Powerpuff Girls Movie_|2002|Cartoon Network Studios||
|_Looney Tunes: Back in Action_|2003|Warner Bros. Feature Animation||
|_Fat Albert_|2004|20th Century Fox|animation|
|_Legend of Frosty the Snowman_|2005|Classic Media|additional digital ink and paint, compositing|
|_Curious George_|2006|Universal Animation Studios|digital ink and paint services|
|_Team Hot Wheels: The Origin of Awesome_|2014|Mattel||

## Infobox (_company)

- **name**: Mercury Filmworks
- **industry**: Animation
- **foundation**: 1997; 21 years ago in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **founders**: Clint Eland
- **location**: Ottawa, Canada
- **key people**: Clint Eland (president and CEO)
- **key people**: Clint Eland
- **num employees**: 250 (2016)
- **divisions**: Mercury Active