Depla Animation

Depla Animation (also known as Depla Studios) is a Canadian animation studio located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with it's second facility being located in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1984 by Alex Beaudet, Kevin Jones, and Riley Buck.

Depla is known for developing and producing animated television programming, commercial, and web based content.

History
Before the founding of Depla Animation, Alex Beaudet and Kevin Jones were both studying at the, where they gained experience on animation and media arts. One day during their spare time, they drew in a blank sheet of paper a creature who would later become Midget MacSqueak. In 1980, Alex and Kevin both came up with a short named, Pure Cheese!, which featured Midget MacSqueak saving his cheese friend (an earlier version of Sr. Doodles) from a sinister cat.

After they both graduated from university, Alex and Kevin moved to Vancouver and officially formed Depla Animation in 1984, along with a friend of Alex, Riley Buck. The following year, the company received a phone call from, who were impressed with short Alex and Kevin made and decided to give them a chance to make a new series for them. Eventually, the series became The Wild Adventures of Midget and Sr. Doodles, which premiered on television in 1987. The company started outsourcing their work to East Asian animation studios at the time.

While the second location in Los Angeles was opening, Alex and Kevin thought of another character back in 1993. The character appeared to be Jones, a simply-drawn character who has a circular head, rectangular body, and black stick arms and legs. By the late 1990s, the company who start using flash animation and created their first web series named, Jones and the Figures.

Technology
During the mid-1980s and 1990s, the animation technique for their works is, with the animation work being outsourced overseas to companies like , , , , , and.

Starting with Charged!, most of their shows since the late 1990s and 2000s are animated with digital paint and ink using and, with the animation either being done in-house or outsourced to companies like , , , , , , and.

The studio also often uses using  to make web content during the late 1990s as well as TV series in the later years. Jones and the Figures, which is one of Depla's most successful shows, uses this technique and is also Depla's first web series.