Rainmaker Animation

Rainmaker Animation Inc., formerly Mainframe Entertainment, Inc., is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Mainframe Vancouver) and Los Angeles, California, USA (Mainframe USA). It produces computer animation TV series and movies. They are best known for producing the first ever CGI animated series "ReBoot", as well as the acclaimed "Transformers" spin-off "Beast Wars". In recent years, they have also become known for producing most of the Barbie film series for Mattel.

Digital Production Solutions, a subsidiary of IDT Media, announced on 2003-09-16 that it would acquire a controlling stake in Mainframe. The acquisition was completed in December 2, 2003.

However, IDT later sold its IDT Entertainment division to Liberty Media on May 26 2006.

Mainframe was then acquired by RNK Capital Limited Partnership, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rainmaker Income Fund, on July 31, 2006, which purchased 62% of the company, although the deal was announced several weeks earlier on July 20, 2006. [http://mainframe.ca/news/articles/news/060720N0.pdf]

Rainmaker Income Fund announced on August 29, 2006, that RNK Capital Limited Partnership would acquire the 38% of shares it didn't own by merging with Rainmaker Income Fund. [http://mainframe.ca/news/articles/news/060829N0.pdf] After the merger, Rainmaker announced on January 31 2007 that Mainframe Entertainment's name would be changed to Rainmaker Animation. [ [http://www.vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=3631a5a1&atype=news&id=18973 >> VFXWorld / News << ] ] However, the individual studios kept the Mainframe name after the renaming.

On 2007-11-29, Rainmaker Income Fund announced the sale of Rainmaker Visual Effects and Rainmaker Post to Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, leaving only the animation business. [http://www.mainframe.ca/press/2]

Works

Mainframe era

*"ReBoot"
*"Beast Wars: Transformers"
*"Shadow Raiders/War Planets"
*"Weird-Oh's"
*"Beast Machines Transformers"
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*"Action Man" (not to be confused with the BKN series)
*"Heavy Gear"
*"Max Steel" (season 3 TV, Endangered Species, Forces of Nature, Countdown, Dark Rival)
*"Scary Godmother"
*"Hot Wheels Highway 35 World Race"
*"Hot Wheels AcceleRacers"
*"Casper's Haunted Christmas"
*several Barbie fairy tale movies (continuing into the Rainmaker era):
**Barbie in The Nutcracker
**Barbie as Rapunzel
**Barbie of Swan Lake
**Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper
**Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus
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**Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
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*the 1985 music video for "Money for Nothing", a song by Dire Straits (prior to Mainframe's founding proper) that won an MTV Video Music Award
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*"Zixx series" (Levels One and Two)
*"Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage"
*"Arthur's Missing Pal"
*"2003 MTV Movie Awards"
*"2006 MTV Movie Awards"
*"Atomic Puppet"
*"Harriet the Spy"
*"Ghost Hunter Dax"
*"The Nutty Professor" [http://www.mainframe.ca/news/articles/news/060808N0.pdf]

Cancelled

*"Aliens The Series"
*"Binomes"
*"Dot's Bots" [http://web.archive.org/web/20020723214736/www.mainframe.ca/mainframe/pressreleases/current/2002_05_10-02.html]
*"Tony Hawk's Feasters [http://web.archive.org/web/20020723215118/www.mainframe.ca/mainframe/pressreleases/current/2002_05_22.html]
*"Beat Freaks"/Delores Deadhead [http://web.archive.org/web/20050415082957/http://www.chf.co.uk/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=current&news_id=74]
*"Moonsurfers" [http://www.cynopsis.com/content/view/821/53/]

Rainmaker era

*Barbie as the Island Princess (as "Rainmaker Animation")
*"The Nutty Professor 2"
*"Escape from Planet Earth"
*"WET" (video game trailer)
*"Prototype" (video game trailer)
*"Barbie Mariposa and Her Butterfly Fairy Friends"
*"" (video game trailer)
*"Legion of 5" [http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=2b4fcee0-e3dd-4b37-8939-538776798a2e&k=38756]

References

External links

* [http://www.mainframe.ca/ Mainframe's website]
* [http://www.rainmaker.com/ Rainmaker's website]