Case Study: GORILLA Enterprises achieves faster animation and outpaces larger studios with CorelDRAW

CorelDRAW makes animated life easy for The Gorilla

Miguel "Gorilla" Lopez and his two‑person studio GORILLA Enterprises needed a fast, user‑friendly design and animation workflow that could deliver consistent line quality and rapid turnaround to compete with larger shops. To meet those demands he relies on CorelDRAW as his primary tool for drawing, layout and animation.

Using CorelDRAW (with CorelTRACE for vectorizing scanned ink drawings), Gorilla builds multi‑page DRAW documents for frame‑by‑frame animation, tweaks line quality, and uses grouping/rotation and the Select tool to speed edits. The result: a two‑person team that has outpaced shops of four or five people, produced multi‑page animations (one logo animation used 19 pages), landed work on shows like The Simpsons, The Family Guy and Xiaolin Showdown, and expanded product distribution internationally — all thanks to CorelDRAW.

GORILLA Enterprises

Miguel Gorilla Lopez

Artist, Cartoonist and Animator