Animation Magic
Russian-American software animation studio
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Animation Magic (Russian: «Магия анимации», romanized: Magiya Animatsii) was a Russian-American animation studio founded in Gaithersburg, Maryland in 1991, with offices later added in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a 100%-owned subsidiary in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The company developed animations for CD-based software. It was acquired in December 1994 by Capitol Multimedia. The assets and rights that Capitol owned would be sold to Davidson & Associates in April 1997.
1992 (Saint Petersburg branch)[1]
| Industry | video game industry |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1991 (Massachusetts branch) 1992 (Saint Petersburg branch)[1] |
| Founders | Igor Razboff and Dale DeSharone |
| Defunct | 2001[2] |
| Fate | Dissolved by Vivendi Universal |
| Headquarters | Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S. |
Number of locations | 3 |
| Products | Video games and animation |
Number of employees | ~150 |
| Parent | Capitol Multimedia (1994–1997) Davidson & Associates (1997–1998) Vivendi Universal Games (1998–2001) |
| Subsidiaries | ООО "АМИ" |
By 1994, Animation Magic had 90 employees, including 12 software engineers and approximately 60 animators, computer graphic, background and sprite artists. Its video games include included Hotel Mario, Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam, Pyramid Adventures, I.M. Meen,[3] King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride, Darby the Dragon, and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans.[4][5]
Legacy
Circa 2006, Animation Magic video games were major source materials for YouTube poops, with the most notable being Hotel Mario, Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, and I. M. Meen.[6]
On September 6, 2020, over 200 animators collaborated to reanimate 21 minutes of cutscenes of Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon (both 1993).[7][8][9]
