Crest Animation Studios Ltd. (formerly Crest Communications) (BSE: 526785) is an Indian animation studio. It was founded by Shyam Raja Ramanna in 1990 under the name Crest Communications and it first went public in 1995. In 2000, it acquired Rich Animation Studios in the United States.
In 2001, it had over 500 employees; however, it had three years of losses during which it laid off all but 110 employees. In 2004, it posted a profit and hired an additional 260 animators, and in October 2004 renamed itself to its current name. The current CEO is A.K.Madhavan and they have just released an animated feature film in conjunction with Lionsgate called Alpha and Omega in both 2D and 3D.
Famous quotes containing the word crest:
“What shall he have that killed the deer?
His leather skin and horns to wear.
Then sing him home.
Take thou no scorn to wear the horn,
It was a crest ere thou wast born;
Thy father’s father wore it,
And thy father bore it.
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)