Animation Magic () was a Russian-American animation studio founded in Gaithersburg, Maryland in 1991, with offices later added in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a 100%-owned subsidiary in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The company developed animations for CD-based software. It was acquired in December 1994 by Capitol Multimedia. The assets and rights that Capitol owned would be sold to Davidson & Associates in April 1997.
By 1994, Animation Magic had 90 employees, including 12 software engineers and approximately 60 animators, computer graphic, background and sprite artists. Its video games included Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam, Pyramid Adventures, I.M. Meen, King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride, Darby the Dragon, and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans.
Legacy Circa 2006, Animation Magic video games were major source materials for YouTube poops, with the most notable being Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, and I.M. Meen.
On September 6, 2020, over 200 animators collaborated to reanimate 21 minutes of cutscenes of Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon (both 1993).
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External links Как создатели мемных спин-оффов «Зельды» изменили российскую индустрию игр и анимации (lit. How the creators of Zelda's meme spin-offs changed the Russian gaming industry and animations) . DTF. November 25, 2021.