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In 2001 shortly after working on Shrek, Williams founded Vanguard Animation and started working on projects such as Valiant (2005), Happily N'Ever After (2007), Space Chimps (2008) and its sequel Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back.
Vanguard Films & Animation, often named only as Vanguard Animation, is an American production studio founded in 2002 by producer John H. Williams and Neil Braun. The studio has offices in Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada and Ealing Studios in London , England , United Kingdom .
Vanguard Films has an impressive resume producing both original live action and animated films and television. John Williams established Vanguard in the 1980’s as a New York based production company in films, television, commercials and music videos.
Vanguard Animation. We have produced 11 independent animated feature films and currently have two in production, with all of them independently developed, produced and financed. . US Distributors Include: Walt Disney Pictures, Fox, Dreamworks, Lionsgate, Netflix.
- The Backstory
- An Independent Work Ethic
- The Shape of Things to Come
Among the issues that had to be addressed before Happily N'ever Afterbegan animation production was the fact that BAF had conceived it as a 2D animated film. But Williams recalls, "Foreign buyers said they'd be interested in it as a CG film." (Odyssey Entertainment, the film's foreign sales distributor, also helped orchestrate Lionsgate's U.S. dist...
Williams has long predicted a growth of independent CG features as off-the-shelf software and affordable hardware proliferates. Happily N'ever After was animated using Autodesk's Maya, and rendered with Mental Ray software from Mental Images. (Except for DreamWorks' Shark Tale, most uses of this high-end ray tracing software have been for photoreal...
The story behind Happily N'ever After highlights a key truth about feature animation today, especially for producers who want to keep a talented team together. As Williams observes. "You must have your next film in progress. Almost a year before you finish one film, you have to be able to roll over a full crew." With that in mind, Williams is curre...
Valiant is a 2005 animated comedy film [3] produced by Vanguard Animation, Ealing Studios and Odyssey Entertainment, and released by Entertainment Film Distributors in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2005, and by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on August 19.
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John H. Williams is an American Film Producer known for his work both in live-action and in animation. He is famous for co-producing the 2001 animated feature Shrek. He is founder and owner of his own company, Vanguard Films.
