Ghostbot
is an American animation studio based in San Francisco. Founded by Roque Ballesteros, Alan Lau and Brad Rau in 2004, the company specializes on creating high quality animation in Adobe Flash and Toon Boom Harmony. Their animation for many projects has earned widespread acclaim for its creative stylistic approach.
Aside from being best-known for their many efforts for the Happy Tree Friends franchise, they are also best-known for animating the later Erin Esurance advertisements taking over from W!ldBrain Entertainment (in which the three founders used to work at), as well as "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Party in the CIA" music video for his Alpocalypse album.
Shows, films and games worked on by Ghostbot:
- The Algorithmics
- The Batman (2004): Multiply, Divide, and Conquer
- CTRL+♥+DELETE
- Enter Mode 5
- Erin Esurance (later ads)
- Five Iron Frenzy
- Go! Go! Cory Carson (additional art)
- Happy Tree Friends (storyboards for 2 shorts)List (plus the opening sequence for the TV series, as well as the KA-POW!! shorts)
- Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm (cutscenes)
- Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck
- Lost Treasure Hunt
- The Powerpuff Girls (2016) (storyboards for 1 episode)List
- Ralph Breaks VR
- Revisioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series (1 episode)List
- Roboburger Destroy!
- Shorty McShorts' Shorts (3 shorts)List (plus the opening sequence)
- Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (cutscenes)
- Timing is Everything
- Sonic X (Leapster game)
- Star Wars: Forces of Destiny
- Star Wars Rebels (additional production services; 2 episodes)List
- Stoner Cats
- Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters (storyboards)
- Toy Story of Terror ("Combat Carl" short)
- "Weird Al" Yankovic music videos ("Party in the CIA" and the "Flowers" segment of "Polkamania!")
- Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets
- Written By a Kid
- The X's (storyboards for 3 episodes)List