Mainframe Entertainment

The name or term "Mainframe" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Mainframe (disambiguation).

Mainframe Entertainment is a Canadian based animation studio, founded in 1993, which specializes 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 began a slow descent in terms of critical acclaim and financial consistency, distracting themselves with direct-to-video Barbie movies, and Scary Godmother. The company was purchased by Rainmaker Entertainment in 2006, and renamed as Rainmaker Animation. They are currently working on developing new Reboot movies, long after the death of Tony Jay and deciding to not even resolve the cliffhanger of the series.