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Crest Animation Productions
Formerly	Rich Entertainment; (1986–1993); Rich Animation Studios; (1993–2000); RichCrest Animation Studios; (2000–2007)
Founded	March 15, 1986; 38 years ago
Founder	Richard Rich
Defunct	June 19, 2013; 11 years ago
Fate	Closed
Successors	Streetlight Animation; Splash Entertainment
Headquarters	Burbank, California, United States
Key people	Terry L. Noss
Owner	Nest Family Entertainment (1993–2000); Crest Animation Studios (2000–13)

Crest Animation Productions (formerly RichCrest Animation Studios, Rich Animation Studios and originally Rich Entertainment) was an Indian-American animation studio located in Burbank, California, United States. The studio's most well known work include Alpha and Omega and The Swan Princess.

History

The studio was founded by film director Richard Rich in 1986, who previously worked at Walt Disney Productions. He initially had 26 employees, most of them coming from Disney such as former marketing chief Matt Mazer.^[1] Around that time, Rich was contacted by Jared F. Brown to produce half-hour animated videos based on audio cassettes of the Book of Mormon for his Living Scriptures firm.^[2] They subsequently expanded to educational animated Christian and historical videos for children through a sister company Family Entertainment Network.^{[citation needed]}

In 1993, Rich Animation Studios was fully acquired by Nest Entertainment,^[3] a holding company that also combined Family Entertainment Network and Cassette Duplicators Inc., a cassette-duplicator in West Valley City.^[2] On the heels of the videos' success, the two studios produced The Swan Princess in 1994, based on the classic ballet Swan Lake. Despite being a box-office disappointment, it sold well on video and spawned two sequels, The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain and The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom.

In 1999, the two studios teamed up with Morgan Creek Productions and Rankin/Bass Productions to produce an animated adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I for Warner Bros. However, the film bombed at the box office and received very negative reviews, which forced Nest Family Entertainment to sell off the studio to Crest Animation Studios on New Year's Day 2000.^{[citation needed]} The studio was renamed to RichCrest Animation Studios, and they continued to produce Bible videos for Nest until 2005.

In February 2007, RichCrest was renamed to Crest Animation Productions and announced that it was "expanding its business to become a full-service animation studio specializing in the development and production of CGI-animated properties for theatrical, television, home entertainment and interactive distribution".^[4]

The studio was finally shut down in 2013, after failing to make a profit.^[5] Many of its productions contracts were handed over to other studios for completion. Norm of the North, a film that was in production at Crest before closing, along with future Alpha and Omega sequels were handed over to Splash Entertainment while future Swan Princess installments were handled by Streetlight Animation, which Rich also formed.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Theatrical Features

Rich era

Title	Release Date	Notes
The Swan Princess	November 18, 1994 (1994-11-18)	Co-production with Nest Family Entertainment
The King and I	March 19, 1999 (1999-03-19)	Co-production with Morgan Creek Productions, Rankin/Bass Productions and Nest Family Entertainment

RichCrest era

Title	Release Date	Notes
The Trumpet of the Swan	May 11, 2001 (2001-05-11)	Co-production with TriStar Pictures and Nest Family Entertainment
Muhammad: The Last Prophet	November 8, 2002 (2002-11-08)

Crest era

Title	Release Date	Notes
Alpha and Omega	September 17, 2010 (2010-09-17)	Co-production with Lionsgate Films; and produced in CGI.

Direct-to-Video

Rich era

Title	Release Date	Notes
Animated Stories from the Book of Mormon	1987-1992	Co-production with Living Scriptures
Animated Stories from the New Testament	1987-2004	Co-production with Nest Family Entertainment
Animated Hero Classics	1991–1997, 2004	Co-production with Living History Productions, Nest Family Entertainment and Warner-Nest Animation
Animated Stories from the Bible	1992–1995	Co-Production with Nest Family Entertainment
The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain	July 18, 1997 (1997-07-18)
The Swan Princess III: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure	August 4, 1998 (1998-08-04)
The Scarecrow	August 22, 2000 (2000-08-22)

RichCrest era

Title	Release Date	Notes
K10C: Kids' Ten Commandments	2003	Co-production with TLC Entertainment and SMEC Media
Arthur's Missing Pal (CGI)	August 22, 2006 (2006-08-22)	Co-production with WGBH-TV, Mainframe Entertainment and Marc Brown Studios

Crest era Note: All films CGI.

Title	Release Date	Notes
The Little Engine That Could	March 22, 2011 (2011-03-22)	Co-production with Universal Animation Studios
The Swan Princess: Christmas	November 6, 2012 (2012-11-06)	Co-production with Nest Family Entertainment
Alpha and Omega 2: A Howl-iday Adventure	October 8, 2013 (2013-10-08)
The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale	February 25, 2014 (2014-02-25)	Co-production with Nest Family Entertainment
Alpha and Omega 3: The Great Wolf Games	March 25, 2014 (2014-03-25)
Alpha and Omega 4: The Legend of the Saw Tooth Cave	October 7, 2014 (2014-10-07)^[6]
Alpha and Omega: Family Vacation	August 4, 2015 (2015-08-04)^[7]

Films originally slated for production at Crest

Title	Release Date	Notes
Norm of the North	January 15, 2016 (2016-01-15)	Co-produced by Splash Entertainment and Assemblage Entrainment
Alpha and Omega: Dino Digs	May 10, 2016 (2016-05-10)
The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today	September 6, 2016 (2016-09-06)	Co-production with Nest Family Entertainment
Alpha and Omega: The Big Fureeze	December 8, 2016 (2016-12-08)
The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover	March 28, 2017 (2017-03-28)	Co-production with Nest Family Entertainment
Alpha and Omega: Journey to Bear Kingdom	May 9, 2017 (2017-05-09)
The Swan Princess: A Royal Myztery	March 27, 2018 (2018-03-27)	Co-production with Nest Family Entertainment
The Swan Princess: Kingdom of Music	August 6, 2019 (2019-08-06)
The Swan Princess: A Royal Wedding	August 4, 2020 (2020-08-04)
The Swan Princess: A Fairytale is Born	May 23, 2023 (2023-05-23)
The Swan Princess: Far Longer than Forever	September 19, 2023 (2023-09-19)