The February 2001 official start of Toonacious™ Family Entertainment was a destiny fulfilled for founders and friends, Tony Bancroft, Ben Chambers and Bo Ferger. As an accomplished animator and director with 12-years of experience creating wonderful Disney characters for The Walt Disney Studios, deep down inside Tony had some characters and stories of his own that were waiting to be seen. The defining moment in Tony's Disney career came when he won the ANNIE-award (animation's highest honor) for Best Director on Disney's Mulan. His career path had been paved with such films as The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Aladdin and The Emperor's New Groove. Finally, one of the youngest directors in Disney's history took a tremendous leap of faith.
Tony, along with Ben and Bo, left their individual careers in the entertainment and technology industries. Together they formed Toonacious with a focus on producing films with unique characters that take family audiences on an entertaining journey of imagination through animation.