Mainframe Entertainment

Mainframe Entertainment was a Canadian based animation studio, founded in 1993, which specialized in computer generated animation.

Their first huge success was with their award-winning premiere series Reboot. They were chosen by Hasbro to be the company to produce their big gamble; the Beast Wars televison series. This gamble went on to win an Emmy and became possibly Mainframe's most successful project. This led to more work, not only with the follow-up Beast Machines, but on the War Planets show/commercial and the CGI Spider-Man series for MTV.

Upon firing much of their writing and animation staff, Mainframe Entertainment began a slow descent in terms of critical acclaim and financial consistency, distracting themselves with direct-to-video Barbie, Max Steel and Scary Godmother movies. The company was purchased by Rainmaker Entertainment in 2006, and renamed as Rainmaker Animation. As Rainmaker, they produced animation for video game related projects, providing cinematic cutscenes for games such as Prototype, 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand and Ghostbusters: The Video Game. In 2012, Rainmaker sold the animation studio to Chinese company Xing Xing Digital.