Mercury Filmworks

Mercury Filmworks has produced animated television series and feature films for a variety of companies, including Disney, Netflix, Amazon Studios, and Warner Bros. Its recent projects include Kid Cosmic, Centaurworld, Hilda, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, and The Ghost and Molly McGee.

[citation needed] In the late 1990s, technology was evolving to allow artists to paint and render images at a much faster pace and with greater and more consistent results.

Mercury Filmworks was one of the first companies in North America to specialize in digital ink and paint services in Canada.

[citation needed] In 2000, Mercury opened a studio location on King Street East in Toronto to satisfy a multi-year output deal for its services.

In 2004, Mercury moved its Toronto studio to Ottawa, where local animation director, Jerry Popowich, joined the company as a partner.

However, in its Ottawa studio with the help of people like Director Christian Larocque, Rob Buchanan, Anthony Ng, Dave Merrit, Phil Lafrance, Graham Macdonald, Emma Gignac, and Craig Berry, it leveraged this to become one of the world's first companies to produce an animated television series entirely in one studio using the beta version of Toon Boom Animation's Harmony software.

The series involved advanced builds and rigging and heavy use of CG integration techniques for character and location assists.

The methodologies used in the production were built upon the innovative techniques developed for The Lion Guard, and was to push animation and character performance levels to a new high.