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Kickstart Entertainment

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Founded
1999
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51-200
Offices
6

About Kickstart Entertainment

Kickstart Entertainment is a full-service film, television and animation production studio founded in Los Angeles in 1999 by producer Jason Netter. Working across animated and live-action entertainment, the company combines creative development, production, financing, post-production and publishing to develop projects from early concepts through delivery.

Its animation work spans 2D, 3D/CG and hybrid production, supported by visual development, storyboarding, animatics, layout, modeling, rigging, texturing, lighting, rendering and compositing. The studio also provides voice casting and recording, editorial, sound coordination, delivery services, and production-management support including co-investment packaging and tax-credit structuring.

Screen production

Kickstart develops children’s and family programming, adult scripted television, feature films, digital content and commercial work. Its credited productions include The Boys, Gen V, Preacher, Wanted, Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures, Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase, StarBeam, Deepa & Anoop, Ready Jet Go!, Transformers: Rescue Bots, Angry Birds: Summer Madness, Barney’s World and Lucas the Spider.

The company’s production model links creative and production management with international animation capacity. Its Vancouver operation serves as the main animation-production hub, while teams across Asia support animation, visual-development and digital-production pipelines. In the United States, the studio also develops and packages live-action projects and manages business affairs and intellectual-property rights.

Development and partnerships

Beyond screen production, Kickstart publishes graphic novels through its internal Kickstart Comics imprint, using original properties as potential sources for live-action and animated adaptations. The company is also a co-producer of the annual Bentonville Film Festival, an initiative associated with amplifying diverse and underrepresented voices in media.

Kickstart formed CakeStart Entertainment in 2021 with CAKE to develop and produce live-action children’s and family series. Under CEO and founder Jason Netter, President Heather Puttock and Head of Production Susan Corbin, the independent company continues to work across animation, live action, publishing and franchise development.

More about Kickstart Entertainment

Operating model and publishing

  • Kickstart Comics is the company’s internal graphic-novel publishing imprint. It incubates proprietary properties including The Blacksmith, Random Acts of Violence, Robot Clown Mob and Bad Guys for potential live-action and animated adaptations.

Workforce development

In early 2025, Kickstart’s Vancouver employees voted unanimously to leave Canadian Animation Guild representation after a brief period organized under CAG (IATSE Local 938), returning to direct collaboration with studio leadership.

Notable credits

22 credits
  • The Boys
  • Gen V
  • Wanted
  • Preacher
  • Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase
  • Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures
  • My First Barbie
  • Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: Camp Crush
  • Barney's World
  • Angry Birds: Summer Madness
  • StarBeam
  • Deepa & Anoop
  • Ready Jet Go!
  • Transformers: Rescue Bots
  • Voltron Force
  • Wolverine & The X-Men
  • Brown and Friends
  • Pretty Freekin Scary
  • Sweetwater
  • Lucas the Spider
  • Fruit Ninja
  • Finley the Fire Engine

Offices

Where Kickstart Entertainment is based

6 locations

  • Los Angeles Corporate Base

    Headquarters
    11693 San Vicente Blvd, Suite 919 / 12400 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 650, Los Angeles, CA 90049/90025Santa Monica, California, United States

    Westside Los Angeles corporate base for executive leadership, live-action production packaging, business affairs, and IP rights management.

    (310) 264-1757
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  • Vancouver Main Studio

    708 Powell Street, Suite 250, Vancouver, BC V6A 1H6, CanadaVancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Main animation studio with 2D and CG production, casting and recording facilities, and executive production management.

    info@kickstartent.com(604) 684-3465
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  • Suzhou Animation Production Studio

    Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

    Animation production studio for layout, visual development, and digital production coordinated with Vancouver.

  • Kickstart Productions Hong Kong Limited

    Hong Kong

    Regional studio office for Asian production coordination, animation management, and overseas pipeline integration.

  • Mumbai Animation Studio

    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Animation studio supporting digital animation, CGI modeling, rendering, and compositing pipelines.

  • Kickstart Productions Arkansas Inc.

    13416 Dickson Road, Hiwasse, AR 72739Hiwasse, Arkansas, United States

    Regional production office and operational base for Kickstart Productions Arkansas Inc., connected to the Bentonville Film Festival.

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