Rovio Animation

Rovio Animation, Ltd.
IndustryAnimation
PredecessorKombo
Founded20 January 2012; 14 years ago (2012-01-20)
FounderJarno Väkeväinen
Niklas Hed
Headquarters
Vancouver, Canada
Los Angeles, United States
Helsinki, Finland
Key peopleMika Ihamuotila
Revenue€190 million
Number of employees
430
Parent

Rovio Animation, Ltd. (also known as Rovio Animation Studios) is an animation studio division of Ferly Corporation (formerly known as Kaiken Entertainment) after it was acquired from its original owner, Rovio Entertainment in March 2017, while still working exclusively on the company's Angry Birds franchise.[incomplete short citation] It is led by former Rovio CEO Mikael Hed.

As of 2023, Rovio's television works are currently distributed by Cake Entertainment.

History

Kombo was an animation studio formed in Finland specializing in advertising. The company was most well known for their Angry Birds trailers and shorts with a more cartoonish art style, which were made from 2009 to 2013. In 2011, they were acquired by Rovio Entertainment, folding up the independent art making studio, where they would only work on Angry Birds trailers. The company only worked on trailers for the first game, Angry Birds Seasons, and Angry Birds Rio. Kombo would be folded into Rovio Animation in 2013.

Filmography

Television series

Title Genre Seasons Runtime Premiere date Last episode Status Network
Angry Birds Toons Adventure, comedy, slapstick 3 seasons, 104 episodes 2 min. 45 sec. 17 March 2013 13 May 2016 Ended Toons.TV
Piggy Tales Comedy 4 seasons, 121 episodes 1 min. 11 April 2014 30 May 2019
Angry Birds Stella Adventure, comedy drama 2 seasons, 26 episodes 6 min. 1 November 2014 11 March 2016
Angry Birds Blues Adventure, comedy 1 season, 30 episodes 2 min. 10 March 2017 14 December 2017
Angry Birds BirLd Cup 1 season, 10 episodes 3 min. 9 June 2018 2018 YouTube
Angry Birds Zero Gravity [citation needed] 1 season, 3 episodes 45 sec. 3 October 2018 2018
Angry Birds on the Run [citation needed] Comedy 2 seasons, 39 episodes 2 min. 17 November 2018 14 November 2020
Angry Birds MakerSpace [citation needed] 2 seasons, 35 episodes 1 min. 1 June 2019 2025
Angry Birds Slingshot Stories 4 seasons, 75 episodes
(1st season only, continued by Maya Digital Studios)		 1 min. 18 January 2020 2025
Angry Birds Bubble Trouble 2 seasons, 44 episodes 1 min. 31 August 2020 August 2023
Angry Birds: Summer Madness Adventure, comedy, slapstick 3 seasons, 36 episodes 13-24 min. 28 January 2022 25 August 2022 Netflix
Angry Birds Mystery Island Adventure, comedy, mystery 1 season, 24 episodes 23-30 min. 21 May 2024 3 December 2024 Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Kids+

Feature films

Title Release date Director(s) Writer(s) Producer(s) Distributor(s) Co-production with Budget Box office Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
The Angry Birds Movie 20 May 2016 Clay Kaytis
Fergal Reilly		 Story by: Mikael Hed
Mikko Pöllä
John Cohen
Screenplay by: Jon Vitti		 John Cohen
Catherine Winder		 Sony Pictures Releasing Columbia Pictures $73 million $352.3 million 44% 43
The Angry Birds Movie 2 14 August 2019 Thurop Van Orman
John Rice (co-director)		 Peter Ackerman
Eyal Podell
Jonathan E. Stewart		 John Cohen Columbia Pictures
Sony Pictures Animation		 $65 million $154.7 million 72% 60
The Angry Birds Movie 3 23 December 2026 John Rice Thurop Van Orman John Cohen
Dan Chuba
Carla Connor
Namit Malhotra		 Paramount Pictures Prime Focus Studios
Sega Sammy Group

Short films

Title Director Producers Release date
The Early Hatchling Gets the Worm John Rice John Cohen
Catherine Winder		 20 May 2016
Live Stream 14 August 2019

References

  1. ↑ Kaiken Entertainment buys Rovio's TV animation unit Archived 9 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 4 May 2017
  2. ↑ "CAKE to rep Rovio's trio of Angry Birds series". Kidscreen. 24 June 2015. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Angry Birds Creator Rovio Acquires Kombo Animation Studio". www.gamedeveloper.com. Retrieved 4 September 2026.
  4. ↑ "Angry Birds creator Rovio acquires animation studio | GamesIndustry.biz". www.gamesindustry.biz. Retrieved 4 September 2026.
  5. ↑ "'Angry Birds' Rovio Acquires Finnish Animation House Kombo". Archived from the original on 12 November 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2026.
  6. ↑ Angry Birds Slingshot Stories Ep. 1 - First Level Ever!. Rovio Entertainment. 18 January 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2021 – via YouTube.
  7. ↑ "Angry Birds Slingshot Stories S2 - Color Crazy Ep.1". Rovio Entertainment. 19 June 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2021 – via YouTube.
  8. ↑ "The Angry Birds Movie". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  9. ↑ "The Angry Birds Movie". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  10. ↑ "The Angry Birds Movie 2". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  11. ↑ "The Angry Birds Movie 2". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  12. ↑ Wolfe, Jennifer (9 June 2016). "WATCH: Sony Drops Trailer for 'Angry Birds Movie's 'Hatchlings' Short". Animation World Network. Retrieved 17 May 2026.