Rough Draft had it's humble beginning in the spacious state-of-the-art garage at the Vanzo residence in Van Nuys, California in 1991.

It wasn't until a year and a half later that Gregg realized Walt Disney had started in his garage and George Lucas initially set up shop in a warehouse somewhere in Van Nuys, that this plan had no way of working out. Gregg packed his bags and left the country.

Gregg spent the next three years assisting his wife Nikki in setting up Rough Draft, Korea in Seoul, Korea. He spent those years training Korean animators and directors and instilling in them distinctive American ethics such as "Is it five o-clock yet?", "You wanna go for coffee?", and "Screw the man!". These methods seemed to work as the studio started putting out work of quality never before seen from "over-seas" studios in the past. (It wasn't until years later that Gregg found out that the phrases that he was uttering were not translated accurately and were taken as "Screw the wife, I'm drinking coffee and working till five in the morning!". Gregg eventually learned enough Korean to get a taxi to stop within three blocks of his destination.)

It was then that Gregg decided to head back to the States. Through his association with MTV on working on "Beavis & Butt-Head", Gregg started production on Rough Draft's first series "The Maxx". That's when he propositioned Claudia Katz to be his producer for the series, leaving her Ad-agency career in the sky-scrapers of the "Big Apple" to move across the continent to a run-down motel-like building on Pass Ave. in Burbank, California. She said yes.

With his brother Scott Vanzo heading the "Digital Department", Gregg and Claudia assembled a team of artists and production staff to do what had never been done before... To actually animate a series based on a popular comic book that actually looked like... er... the comic book.

With a series under their belts, there was no stopping them now. Enlisting the help of Rich Moore and Bret Haaland as head directors, Rough Draft Studios moved in 1995 to a much larger 18,000 square-foot facility in Glendale. From there they went on to produce animation for commercials, TV segments, music videos, theatrical shorts and prime time animated series. With the amount of work that they were acquiring, Rough Draft expanded to 30,000 square feet by tunneling under the Salvation Army Family Store of Glendale. The many restraurants, shops and coffee shops on Brand Blvd. came in quite handy over the years, as there was so much work to do that the RDS citizens weren't going anywhere else.

And the rest is history...