Rough Draft Studios

**Rough Draft Studios, Inc.** is an American animation studio in Glendale, California. It also has **Rough Draft Korea**, which is in Seoul, South Korea. The studio was founded in Van Nuys, Los Angeles by Gregg Vanzo in 1991.

Rough Draft Studios has made many specials, commercials and video work for many companies. Some of these companies have been Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios, 20th Television Animation, MTV Animation, Film Roman, Disney Television Animation and Nickelodeon Animation Studio.

## Founding

Rough Draft Studios was founded in a Van Nuys, Los Angeles garage by Gregg Vanzo and Nikki Vanzo. Nikki started and runs Rough Draft Korea.

## Technology

Rough Draft Studios is known for using both 2-D with computer animation and non-photorealistic rendering. This was used in many of Matt Groening's projects. These include _The Maxx_, then _Futurama_, _The Simpsons Movie_, a few episodes of _The Simpsons_ after the movie and _Disenchantment_.

#### TV series

|style="width:20%;"|Show|style="width:8%;"|Year(s)|style="width:17%;"|Client|style="width:30%;" class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_The Maxx_|1995|MTV Animation||||||
|_Futurama_|1999–2003; 2008–2013; 2023–present|The Curiosity Company<hr>20th Television Animation||||||
|_Baby Blues_|2000|Warner Bros. Animation|5 episodes|||||
|_Star Wars: Clone Wars_|2003–2005|Lucasfilm<hr>Cartoon Network Studios||||||
|_Drawn Together_|2004–2007|Double-Hemm Productions<hr>Comedy Partners||||||
|_Korgoth of Barbaria_|2006|Williams Street|TV pilot|||||
|_Sit Down Shut Up!_|2009|Adelaide Productions<hr>20th Century Fox Television||||||
|_Good Vibes_|2011|Rough House Pictures<hr>Warner Horizon Television<hr />MTV Production Development|"Pilot"|||||
|_Napoleon Dynamite_|2012|Hess Films<hr />Scully Productions<hr />20th Century Fox Television||||||
|_Full English_|Two Brothers Pictures|||||||
|_Coffin Dodgers_|2013|Williams Street|TV pilot|||||
|_Clash-a-Rama_|2015–present|Tolerable Entertainment<hr>Supercell|Web series|||||
|_Tarantula_|2017|Rough House Pictures<hr>Solid Brass Studio T ||||||||
|_Disenchantment_|2018–2023|The ULULU Company<hr>Netflix||||||
|_Fired on Mars_|2023|Pat & Mike Productions NN Productions ||||||||

#### Films/specials

|style="width:20%;"|Title|style="width:5%;"|Year|style="width:20%;"|Client|style="width:20%;" class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_The Thief and the Cobbler_|1992|The Completion Bond Company|ink-and-paint along with Rough Draft Korea|||||
|_RoboCop 3_|1993|Orion Pictures|"Johnny Rehab" commercial animation|||||
|_The Whizzard of Ow_|2003|Warner Bros. Animation|theatrical short|||||
|_Duck Dodgers: Attack of the Drones_|2004|theatrical short produced in 2003||||||
|_Futurama: Bender's Big Score_|2007|The Curiosity Company 20th Century Fox Television || rowspan="3" | direct-to-video||||||
|_Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs_|2008|||||||
|_Futurama: Bender's Game_||||||||
|_The Pink Panther 2_|2009|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Columbia Pictures || opening title sequence only||||||
|_Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder_|The Curiosity Company 20th Century Fox Television || direct-to-video|||||||
|_How Murray Saved Christmas_|2014|Universal Television|TV special|||||
|_King Star King!/!/!/_|2023|Williams Street|TV special|||||

#### Other

- _The Simpsons_ - "Deep, Deep Trouble" music video (overseas animation provided by Anivision)
- _MADtv_ - _Spy vs. Spy_ shorts
- 2003 Wendy's "Go Wild" and Sprint “Duck Naked” commercials. These had the Looney Tunes characters, promoting _Looney Tunes: Back in Action_
- 59th Primetime Emmy Awards - Brian and Stewie Griffin opening number
- _Gravity Falls_ - "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls" (ShackTron CG animation)
- _Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow_
- _DuckTales_ - "Moonvasion!"

### Rough Draft Korea

Rough Draft Korea, RDS' sister studio based in Seoul, South Korea. Rough Draft Korea has made animation for these series, features, specials, short films, music videos and commercials.

#### TV series

|style="width:20%;"|Show|style="width:8%;"|Year(s)|colspan="2" style="width:17%;"|Client|style="width:30%;" class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_The Ren & Stimpy Show_|1992–1995|Spümcø<hr/>Games Animation||||||
|_The Simpsons_|1992–present|Gracie Films<hr/>Film Roman (1992–2016)<hr/>20th Television Animation (2016–present)|season 4–present|||||
|_Beavis and Butt-Head_|1993–1997; 2011 || colspan="2" | MTV Animation |||||||||
|_The Critic_|1994–1995|Gracie Films<hr>Film Roman||||||
|_The Brothers Grunt_|A.k.a. Cartoon|||||||
|_Timon & Pumbaa_|1995|Walt Disney Television Animation|8 shorts|||||
|_Eek! Stravaganza_|Film Roman|_Klutter!_ segments only||||||
|_The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat_|1995–1996|||||||
|_The Nanny_|1995|TriStar Television|"Oy to the World" only|||||
|_Rocko's Modern Life_|1996|Joe Murray Productions<hr>Games Animation|"Fatal Contraption" and season 4 only with Sunwoo Entertainment|||||
|_Dexter's Laboratory_|1996–1999; 2001–2003 || colspan="2" | Hanna-Barbera (1996–1998)<hr/>Cartoon Network Studios (2001–2003) |||||||||
|_Pinky and the Brain_|1996–1998|Warner Bros. Animation||||||
|_Jumanji_|1996|Adelaide Productions|6 episodes of season 1|||||
|_What a Cartoon!_|1996–1997|Cartoon Network Studios|"Buy One, Get One Free*", "The Zoonatiks, in Home Sweet Home"|||||
|_King of the Hill_|1997–2001|Deedle-Dee Productions<hr>Judgemental Films<hr>3 Arts Entertainment<hr>20th Television Animation|30 episodes|||||
|_The Angry Beavers_|Gunther-Wahl Productions<hr>Nickelodeon Animation Studio|||||||
|_Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child_|1997|HBO|8 episodes of season 2|||||
|_Johnny Bravo_|Hanna-Barbera|Season 1 alongside Sunwoo Entertainment||||||
|_Cow and Chicken_|1997–1999|||||||
|_I Am Weasel_|1997–2000|||||||
|_Daria_|1998|MTV Animation|Season 2|||||
|_CatDog_|1998–2001|Peter Hannan Productions|Nickelodeon Animation Studio|with Saerom Animation||||
|_Oh Yeah! Cartoons_|1998–2001|Frederator Studios||||||
|_The Powerpuff Girls_|1998–2005|Hanna-Barbera (1998–2001)<hr/>Cartoon Network Studios (2002–2005)||||||
|_Dilbert_|1999–2000|Adelaide Productions|11 episodes|||||
|_SpongeBob SquarePants_|1999–present|United Plankton Pictures|Nickelodeon Animation Studio|||||
|_ChalkZone_|1999–2000|Frederator Studios|season 1|||||
|_Dragon Tales_|1999–2005|Adelaide Productions||||||
|_Family Guy_|2000–2001|Fuzzy Door Productions<hr/>20th Television Animation|eight episodes of season 2 (production order)|||||
|_The Cartoon Cartoon Show_|Cartoon Network Studios|||||||
|_Sammy_|2000|Adelaide Productions||||||
|_Jackie Chan Adventures_|2000–2002|13 episodes of seasons 1 and 2||||||
|_Sheep in the Big City_|Curious Pictures|||||||
|_The Oblongs_|2001|Film Roman||||||
|_Samurai Jack_|2001–2004; 2017 || colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Cartoon Network Studios || seasons 1-4 and "XCVIII"|||||||
|_Grim & Evil_|2001–2004|||||||
|_Harold and the Purple Crayon_|Adelaide Productions|||||||
|_Kim Possible_|2002–2007|Walt Disney Television Animation|22 episodes|||||
|_Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law_|2002–2003|Williams Street|episodes 2-9|||||
|_Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?_|Cartoon Network Studios|||||||
|_3-South_|Hentemann Films<hr>Warner Bros. Animation|MTV Animation||||||
|_Clone High_|Touchstone Television<hr>Doozer<hr>Lord Miller Productions<hr>Nelvana|||||||
|_My Life as a Teenage Robot_|2002–2006|Frederator Studios|Nickelodeon Animation Studio|||||
|_Codename: Kids Next Door_|2002–2008|Curious Pictures||||||
|_The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy_|2001–2005|Cartoon Network Studios|seasons 1-5|||||
|_Evil Con Carne_|2001–2004|||||||
|_Danny Phantom_|2004–2007|Billionfold Inc.|Nickelodeon Animation Studio|||||
|_American Dad!_|2005|Underdog Productions<hr>Fuzzy Door Productions<hr>20th Television Animation|Unaired pilot episode only|||||
|_The Life & Times of Juniper Lee_|2005–2007|Cartoon Network Studios||||||
|_Catscratch_|Nickelodeon Animation Studio|||||||
|_Camp Lazlo_|2005–2008|Cartoon Network Studios||||||
|_Sunday Pants_|2005|"Periwinkle Around the World"||||||
|_The X's_|2005–2006|Nickelodeon Animation Studio||||||
|_Squirrel Boy_|2006–2007||Cartoon Network Studios|||||
|_Korgoth of Barbaria_|2006|Williams Street|TV pilot|||||
|_American Dragon: Jake Long_|2006–2007|Walt Disney Television Animation|Season 2|||||
|_Class of 3000_|2006–2008|Cartoon Network Studios|14 episodes|||||
|_Random! Cartoons_|2006–2007|Frederator Studios|Nickelodeon Animation Studio|||||
|_The Modifyers_|2007||TV pilot|||||
|_Tom and Jerry Tales_|2007–2008|Warner Bros. Animation|5 episodes of season 2|||||
|_Phineas and Ferb_|2007–2012|Disney Television Animation|Seasons 1-3|||||
|_The Replacements_|2008–2009|Season 2||||||
|_The Mighty B!_|2008–2011|Paper Kite Productions<hr>Polka Dot Pictures<hr>Nickelodeon Animation Studio||||||
|_The Cartoonstitute_|2009|Cartoon Network Studios||||||
|_Adventure Time_|2010–2018|Frederator Studios|Cartoon Network Studios|with Saerom Animation||||
|_Sym-Bionic Titan_|2010–2011|Orphanage Animation Studios||||||
|_The Looney Tunes Show_|2011–2013|Warner Bros. Animation||||||
|_Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated_|2012|"The Night the Clown Cried" and "The Night the Clown Cried II"||||||
|_Gravity Falls_|2012–2016|Disney Television Animation|23 episodes|||||
|_Ben 10: Omniverse_|2012–2014|Cartoon Network Studios||||||
|_Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program_|2013–2018|Nickelodeon Animation Studio|"Bug Salad", "Ice Station Zedonk", "Magic Children Doing Things", "Someone Needs to Stop Aunt Phyllis", "Camp Weedonwantcha"|||||
|_Uncle Grandpa_|2013–2017|Cartoon Network Studios||||||
|_Steven Universe_|2013–2019|with Sunmin Image Pictures||||||
|_Star vs. the Forces of Evil_|2015–2019|Disney Television Animation|"Blood Moon Ball", Season 2 until season 4|||||
|_We Bare Bears_|2015–2019|Cartoon Network Studios|with Saerom Animation|||||
|_Wabbit_|2015–2016|Warner Bros. Animation|Season 1|||||
|_Bug Salad_|2016|Nickelodeon Animation Studio|web shorts|||||
|_Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer_|2017|Disney Television Animation||||||
|_Craig of the Creek_|2017–2025|Cartoon Network Studios||||||
|_Summer Camp Island_|2017–2023|||||||
|_Big City Greens_|2018–present|Disney Television Animation|with Sugarcube Animation|||||
|_Amphibia_|2019–2022|with Saerom Animation and Sunmin Image Pictures||||||
|_Steven Universe Future_|2019–2020|Cartoon Network Studios|with Sunmin Image Pictures|||||
|_The Owl House_|2020–2023|Disney Television Animation|with Sunmin Image Pictures and Sugarcube Animation|||||
|_Chibi Tiny Tales_|2020–present|interstitial series||||||
|_Tig n' Seek_|2020–2022|Cartoon Network Studios||||||
|_Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years_|2021|United Plankton Pictures<hr>Nickelodeon Animation Studio|"Kitchen Sponge", "Outhouse Outrage", "Help Not Wanted", and "Mermaid Men and Barnacle Boys" (2D sequences only)|||||
|_The Patrick Star Show_|2021–present|||||||
|_We Baby Bears_|2022–present|Cartoon Network Studios|with Saerom Animation|||||
|_Chibiverse_|2022–present|Disney Television Animation|with Saerom Animation|||||
|_Hailey's On It!_|2023–2024|with Saerom Animation||||||
|_Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake_|2023–present|Cartoon Network Studios<hr>Frederator Studios|with Saerom Animation|||||
|_Jessica's Big Little World_|2023–2024|Cartoon Network Studios|with Saerom Animation|||||

#### Films/specials

|style="width:20%;"|Title|style="width:5%;"|Year|style="width:20%;"|Client|style="width:20%;" class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|_FernGully: The Last Rainforest_|1992|20th Century Studios Kroyer Films ||||||||
|_P. J. Sparkles_|Mike Young Productions|opening titles||||||
|_The Bears Who Saved Christmas_|1994|Film Roman||||||
|_Izzy's Quest for Olympic Gold_|1995|||||||
|_Beavis and Butt-Head Do America_|1996|Paramount Pictures MTV Films Geffen Pictures Judgemental Films || overseas animation, 3-D sequences||||||
|_The Story of Santa Claus_|Film Roman|||||||
|_A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith_|1999|Spümcø||||||
|_Boo Boo Runs Wild_|Uncredited|||||||
|_Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip_|Hanna-Barbera|||||||
|_The Flintstones: On the Rocks_|2001|Cartoon Network Studios||||||
|_The Powerpuff Girls Movie_|2002|Warner Bros. Pictures Cartoon Network Studios ||||||||
|_Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure_|Nickelodeon Animation Studio|produced in 2000||||||
|_The Electric Piper_|2003|||||||
|_Polly Pocket: Lunar Eclipse_|Mike Young Productions|||||||
|_Stitch! The Movie_|Disney Television Animation|||||||
|_The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie_|2004|Paramount Pictures Nickelodeon Movies United Plankton Pictures ||||||||
|_Inside the CIA_|2005|20th Century Studios Underdog Productions Fuzzy Door Productions || Short||||||
|_Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama_|Disney Television Animation|||||||
|_How to Eat Fried Worms_|New Line Cinema Walden Media || Animated sequences|||||||
|_The Simpsons Movie_|2007|20th Century Fox 20th Century Animation Gracie Films|| also co-produced overseas with AKOM||||||
|_Phineas and Ferb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown_|2009|Disney Television Animation||||||
|_Phineas and Ferb: Summer Belongs To You!_|2010|Disney Television Animation||||||
|_Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across The Second Dimension_|2011|Disney Television Animation||||||
|_Achmed Saves America_|2012|Anchor Bay Entertainment||||||
|_Hotel Transylvania_|Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Animation || End title sequence|||||||
|_Madea's Tough Love_|2015|Lionsgate Tyler Perry Studios Bento Box Entertainment ||||||||
|_The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water_|Paramount Pictures Paramount Animation Nickelodeon Movies United Plankton Pictures || 2D hand-drawn animated sequences only|||||||
|_Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run_|Warner Bros. Animation|||||||
|_Hotel Transylvania 2_|Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Animation || rowspan="2" | End title sequence|||||||
|_Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation_|2018|||||||
|_Steven Universe: The Movie_|2019|Cartoon Network Studios||||||
|_We Bare Bears: The Movie_|2020|Cartoon Network Studios||||||
|_Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe_|2020|Disney Television Animation||||||

## Infobox (company)

- **name**: Rough Draft Studios, Inc.
- **logo**: Rough_Draft_Studios_logo.png
- **type**: Privately held company, Private
- **industry**: Traditional animation, Hand-drawn animation
Television production
- **founded**: in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- **founder**: Gregg Vanzo
Nikki Vanzo
- **hq location**: 615 Allen Avenue
Glendale, California
91201, U.S.
- **divisions**: Rough Draft Korea
Rough Draft Feature Animation