Number of employees ~150 Founded 1992 Ceased operations 2001 | Defunct 2001 (2001) Number of locations 3 Parent organization Philips | |
Founder Igor Razboff and Dale DeSharone Products Video games and animation Owner Capitol MultimediaVivendi (1998-2001) Video games Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Link: The Faces of Evil, IM Meen, Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam, Chill Manor | ||
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Animation Magic (Russian: Магия Анимации) was an American animation company created in Gaithersburg, Maryland, with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a 100% owned subsidiary located in St. Petersburg, Russia. It developed animations for CD-based software. In 1994, it had 90 employees, including 12 software engineers and approximately 60 animators, computer graphic, background, and sprite artists. Its products include Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam, I.M. Meen, Chill Manor and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. The unique style of the animated cutscenes in their games, which have an unusual combination of relatively realistic drawings with hyperfluid character morphing and random zooms and exaggerated perspective changes, and which sometimes have the characters performing random gestures which don't relate to their dialogue, possibly due to the Russian animators not understanding English and not being provided with a translation, has resulted in their Legend of Zelda CD-i games, especially, becoming a recurring element of YouTube Poop videos.