Mercury Filmworks

Mercury Filmworks
[[File: |300px|center]] There are multiple animation studios in Canada that live their legacy, and this is one of them. Straight from the wild!
Founded: June 21, 1997 Founder: Clint Eland Headquarters: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Key people: Clint Eland (CEO) Notable works: The Cuphead Show Wander Over Yonder (season 1) Undergrads Gerald McBoing-Boing (TV series) Atomic Puppet Kid Cosmic Centaurworld The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse Hilda The Ghost and Molly McGee Star vs. the Forces of Evil (season 1) Jake and the Never Land Pirates (seasons 1-3) Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil Fish Hooks Pickle and Peanut (pilot) Wayside (season 1) Mega Babies (season 2) Little Ellen Toot & Puddle Tangled: The Series The Loud House Movie The Casagrandes Movie 6teen (seasons 1 & 2) The Lion Guard Producing Parker Legend of the Three Caballeros The Powerpuff Girls Movie Doodlebops Rockin' Road Show Jimmy Two-Shoes Grossology (season 1) The Bob's Burgers Movie Interrupting Chicken Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers Website: https://mercuryfilmworks.com

Mercury Filmworks is a Canadian independent animation studio founded in 1997 by Clint Eland, who also serves as the CEO. They are notable for providing animation services mostly for Disney, Nelvana, and Studio B Productions (now part of WildBrain Studio).

Why They Rock

1. They are experienced in very fluid and smooth animation in a majority of the shows they worked on.
2. They set the bars high for The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse making the animation look very indistinguishable from hand-drawn animation.
3. Their work also pushes to the limits of blending 2D and 3D animation, with Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil being a famous landmark.
4. They succeeded in digital animation in their purest quality, with the notable example being Nick Jr.'s Toot & Puddle.
5. The 1997 and 2008 logos are wholesome, as the 2008 logo consists of a boy pretending to fly a paper airplane. Their 1997 logo is also beautiful with a planet and a moon.
6. Their rigging techniques are phenomenal. Their shows like Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Tangled: The Series and Centaurworld exemplify this, as the character animations are very fluid and call a mind to Walt Disney Animation Studios.
7. Just like Rough Draft Studios, their work can often bump up the positives of a certain negative-received series like Little Ellen, Mega Babies and Fish Hooks.
8. They are responsible for animating most of the shows from Disney Television Animation.
9. Their division Lighthouse Studios excels in really good animation work as well.
10. Much like Rough Draft Studios, they're also good at anime.

Bad Qualities

1. Their 2021 logo isn't as memorable as their 1997 and especially the 2008 and 2014 logos.
2. Some of their work tends to consist of animation errors and look cheap, specifically, the shows co-produced with Studio B.
   • While their animation is decent in the first episode of Pickle and Peanut" and Fish Hooks, because of their overuseuse of stock images, it causes the show's qualities to deteriorate a little.
   • On top of that, their animation for Little Ellen looks stilted and stiff most of the time.
3. Their animation for Disney Junior's The Lion Guard while decent and beautiful, it is a major downgrade compared to The Lion King franchise's previous and first show The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa that was better animated by Rough Draft Studios, Wang Film Productions, Sunwoo Entertainment and Toon City.

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