| Founded | 1991 (Massachusetts branch) 1992 (Saint Petersburg branch)[1] |
|---|---|
| Founders | Igor Razboff and Dale DeSharone |
| Defunct | 2001 (2001)[2] |
| Fate | Dissolved by Vivendi |
| Headquarters | |
Number of locations | 3 |
| Products | Video games and animation |
| Owner | Capitol Multimedia |
Number of employees | ~150 |
| Subsidiaries | ООО "АМИ" |
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.
By 1994 Animation Magic had 90 employees, including 12 software engineers and approximately 60 animators, computer graphic, background and sprite artists. Its products included Link: The Faces of Evil,[3] Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon,[4] Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam, Pyramid Adventures,[5] I.M. Meen,[6] King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride, Darby the Dragon, and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans.[7][8]
Circa 2006, games by Animation Magic were major source materials for YouTube Poops, specifically Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, and I. M. Meen.[9]
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).[10][11][12][13] Nintendo Wire reported, "The ever-shifting mediums and the contrasting animation styles, ranging from professional and sophisticated to intentionally goofy and exaggerated, lend themselves incredibly well to cutscenes that were already chaotic and bizarre to begin with."[11][12]
I went back to computer design and computer manufacturing, and in 1991, I started my own business in multimedia called Animation Magic. When I started that business, Russia opened up and my partner, who was also from Massachusetts but originally from California, suggested that we should probably hire some animators from Russia because that would make us more competitive in the marketplace. We would have better animation and therefore more success, so I went to Russia and we opened a business there in 1992.
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