Rough Draft Studios is an animation studio based in Glendale, California. It was founded by Gregg Vanzo in 1991. The company used Futurama for its production. From the sixth production season and the seventh and eighth broadcast season of Futurama, more animation work is done by the overseas department Rough Draft, Korea.
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Overseas Production By (1999-2009)[]
Season 1
- Space Pilot 3000
- The Series Has Landed
- I, Roommate
- Love's Labours Lost in Space
- Fear of a Bot Planet
- A Fishful of Dollars
- My Three Suns
- A Big Piece of Garbage
- Hell Is Other Robots
Season 2
- A Flight to Remember
- Mars University
- When Aliens Attack
- Fry & the Slurm Factory
- I Second That Emotion
- Brannigan, Begin Again
- A Head in the Polls
- Xmas Story
- Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?
- Put Your Head on My Shoulders
- The Lesser of Two Evils
- Raging Bender
- A Bicyclops Built for Two
- How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back
- A Clone of My Own
- The Deep South
- Bender Gets Made
- The Problem with Popplers
- Mother's Day
- Anthology of Interest I
Season 3
- The Honking
- War is the H-Word
- The Cryonic Woman
- Parasites Lost
- Amazon Women in the Mood
- Bendless Love
- The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
- That's Lobstertainment!
- The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz
- The Luck of the Fryrish
- The Cyber House Rules
- Insane in the Mainframe
- Bendin' in the Wind
- Time Keeps on Slippin'
- I Dated a Robot
Season 4
- Roswell that Ends Well
- A Tale of Two Santas
- Anthology of Interest II
- Love and Rocket
- Leela's Homeworld
- Where the Buggalo Roam
- A Pharaoh to Remember
- Godfellas
- Future Stock
- A Leela of Her Own
- The 30% Iron Chef
- Where No Fan Has Gone Before
Season 5
- Crimes of the Hot
- Jurassic Bark
- The Route of All Evil
- A Taste of Freedom
- Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch
- Less than Hero
- Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles
- The Why of Fry
- The Sting
- The Farnsworth Parabox
- Three Hundred Big Boys
- Spanish Fry
- Bend Her
- Obsoletely Fabulous
- Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television
- The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
Season 6
Korean Production Company (2010-2013)[]
Season 7
- Rebirth
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
- Attack of the Killer App
- Proposition Infinity
- The Duh-Vinci Code
- Lethal Inspection
- The Late Philip J. Fry
- That Darn Katz!
- A Clockwork Origin
- The Prisoner of Benda
- Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences
- The Mutants Are Revolting
- The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
Season 8
- Neutopia
- Benderama
- Ghost in the Machines
- Law and Oracle
- The Silence of the Clamps
- Yo Leela Leela
- All the Presidents' Heads
- Möbius Dick
- Fry Am the Egg Man
- The Tip of the Zoidberg
- Cold Warriors
- Overclockwise
- Reincarnation
Season 9
- The Bots and the Bees
- A Farewell to Arms
- Decision 3012
- The Thief of Baghead
- Zapp Dingbat
- The Butterjunk Effect
- The Six Million Dollar Mon
- Fun on a Bun
- Free Will Hunting
- Near-Death Wish
- 31st Century Fox
- Viva Mars Vegas
- Naturama
Season 10
- Forty Percent Leadbelly
- 2-D Blacktop
- T.: The Terrestrial
- Fry and Leela's Big Fling
- The Inhuman Torch
- Saturday Morning Fun Pit
- Calculon 2.0
- Assie Come Home
- Leela and the Genestalk
- Game of Tones
- Murder on the Planet Express
- Stench and Stenchibility
- Meanwhile
History[]
The former logo of Rough Draft Studios seen in "A Big Piece of Garbage" as a coffee stain.
Gregg Vanzo founded the studios in a garage in Van Nuys, California in 1991. A year and half later, he decided to leave the country together with his wife Nikki Vanzo to set up a branch in Korea. After three years of work, they had set up Rough Draft, Korea in Seoul, South Korea.
After training Korean animators, he went back to the United States, where he met Claudia Katz to be the producer for the studio's first series, The Maxx. Gregg's brother, Scott Vanzo became head of the digital department, while Gregg and Claudia assembled an animation staff.
In 1995, they hired Rich Moore and Bret Haaland as head directors, and moved to a much bigger location in Glendale.
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Trivia[]
The old logo of Rough Draft Studios can be seen as a coffee stain in the Futurama episode "A Big Piece of Garbage" (see picture).