Rainmaker Animation

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Rainmaker Animation Inc., formerly Mainframe Entertainment, Inc., is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Mainframe Vancouver) and Los Angeles, California, USA (Mainframe USA). It produces computer animation TV series. They are most famous for creating the music video for the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing. They are also known for producing the first ever CGI animated series ReBoot, as well as the acclaimed Transformers spin-off Beast Wars.

Digital Production Solutions, a subsidiary of IDT Media, announced on September 16, 2003 that it would acquire a controlling stake in Mainframe. The acquisition was completed in December 2, 2003.

However, IDT later sold its IDT Entertainment division to Liberty Media on May 26, 2006.

Mainframe was then acquired by RNK Capital Limited Partnership, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rainmaker Income Fund, on July 31, 2006, which purchased 62% of the company, although the deal was announced several weeks earlier on July 20, 2006.^[1]

Rainmaker Income Fund announced on August 29, 2006, that RNK Capital Limited Partnership would acquire the 38% of shares it didn't own by merging with Rainmaker Income Fund.^[2] After the merger, Rainmaker announced on January 31, 2007 that Mainframe Entertainment's name would be changed to Rainmaker Animation.^[3] However, the individual studios kept the Mainframe name after the renaming.