The studio was founded in early 2013 by Gary Wang, the founder and ex-CEO of the popular Chinese video sharing website Tudou.com.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on March 12, 2013,[1] Gary Wang announced Light Chaser Animation, a movie studio to produce animated feature films targeting the rapidly growing Chinese movie market, which grew by 30% in 2012[2] and was widely expected to overtake the U.S. market in size by 2020.

[1] Light Chaser's website states that its main goal is to "create world-class animated films".

[7] Their fourth feature film, White Snake, directed by Amp Wong and Zhao Ji, was released on January 11, 2019, in China.

[8] The film received a limited release in the United States and Canada on November 15, 2019, with GKIDS acting as the distributor.