At the annual Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Canada’s ICON Creative Studio officially premiered the first trailer for its original CG animated feature, Dragoons, on Wednesday, June 24.
The fantasy adventure, written and designed by production designer Geoff Taylor (Rocket Club, Super Monsters), centers on an overlooked Dragoon worker at the corporate monolith WizCorp. After a freak accident transforms him into a mighty dragon, the worker uncovers a devastating hidden truth: his kind were once the legendary rulers of the skies. Their legacy was stolen by Hex, a wizard-CEO who shrank the dragons, erased their memories, and siphoned their power to build his corporate empire. Alongside his best friend, the fiery hero must find the courage to rise against Hex, awaken his kind, and prove that even the smallest spark can light up the sky.
The project is spearheaded by a veteran animation team, including director and producer Shea Wageman, who also serves as President and CEO of ICON Creative Studio, and producer Carson Loveday, whose recent credits include Monsters at Work and Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures.
During the festival presentation, Wageman emphasized the film’s core themes and the studio’s global distribution strategy. ‘Dragoons is about reclaiming your power and rewriting history’, Wageman shared in the announcement. ‘We’ve built a visually epic world where the smallest characters can spark the biggest revolutions. We’re thrilled to partner with Global Constellation to bring it to audiences worldwide’.
Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Vancouver’s historic Gastown district, ICON Creative Studio has scaled to become Canada’s largest independently owned CG animation studio. While widely recognized for delivering high-quality, full-pipeline animation services for industry giants such as Disney, Netflix, Apple TV+, Skydance, Warner Bros., Paramount, and Sony, the studio is now aggressively expanding its proprietary content. Dragoons represents a significant step in this direction, joining a slate of original productions that includes the recently released Charlie the Wonderdog, as ICON continues to lean into its holistic philosophy of combining storytelling, artistry, and technology to push the boundaries of CG animation on the big screen.
