Young Thorin and Lila at the Elderwood lantern festival
Quest Animation · Stories for every stage of the journey

Nostalgia RebornWorlds Built to Last

An independent animation studio building Quest Kids originals, a deep family streaming ecosystem, Quest Restored & Enhanced Editions of classic programming, and the connected Ravenwood Universe.

Original IP · Streaming & Connected TV · Publishing · Licensing & Merchandising · Restoration & Enhancement

Young Thorin & Lila · Elderwood lantern festival
What we do

Old Craft, New Worlds

A studio built to create new family franchises, revive classic programming, and deliver both to the screens where today's audiences watch.

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Original IP

Quest Kids Wild, Elderwood, Fireside Fables, and the broader Ravenwood Universe — original properties designed to grow into lasting franchises.

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Streaming Library

A growing kids and family IP library is expanding Quest Kids with established animation, multilingual programming, and title-by-title global and U.S. rights.

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Enhanced Classics

Public-domain family programming transformed into Quest Restored & Enhanced Editions with qualifying new creative elements owned and controlled by Quest.

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Studio Services

Remastering, modernization, captions, localization, compliance, and delivery for networks, platforms, rights holders, and archives.

Original worlds + recognizable animation + a deep 24/7 family programming pipeline

Quest Animation presents

QUEST KIDS
Saturday Mornings Live Here

Quest Kids is a family-facing entertainment destination built around original Quest properties — including Quest Kids Wild — a growing IP library, merchandising potential, and Quest Restored & Enhanced Editions of classic programming.

Original family IPOur library is growingMerchandising potentialEnhanced classicsStreaming-first
Quest Kids logo
Quest Originals

New Family IP Built to Grow

Quest Kids is more than a catalogue destination. These original properties give the channel characters and worlds that can grow across episodes, streaming, publishing, licensing, merchandising, and future interactive experiences.

Connor, Fang and Orin from Quest Kids Wild
Educational adventure
(In production)

Quest Kids Wild

A character-led educational adventure series for children ages 6–10 that blends real-world wildlife encounters with animal facts, habitats, geography, science, conservation, and exploration. Connor leads the adventure, Orin is the experienced mentor, and Fang is the loyal wolf-pup companion. Recurring Wild Fact segments turn each discovery into a memorable takeaway.

Wildlife facts · Science · Habitats · Conservation

Elderwood logo over the valley
Original animated fantasy
(In production)

Elderwood

Thorin Ravenwood's warm village years before the Stormweaver Saga — family, friendship, forests, festivals, training, and ancient places whose secrets have not yet revealed themselves.

Old Garrick for Fireside Fables
Family anthology
(Early production)

Fireside Fables

Old Garrick gathers the family by the Ravenwood hearth and opens the door to illustrated myths, creatures, adventures, and legends — an all-ages gateway into the wider Ravenwood Universe.

Quest Animation

Meet the Characters

Brave kids, legendary heroes, and timeless storytellers — the characters who anchor Quest Kids; Elderwood, Fireside Fables, and the broader Ravenwood Universe.

Connor, Fang and Orin in their Quest Kids Wild adventure world
Quest Kids Wild

Connor, Fang & Orin

A curious young explorer, his loyal wolf pup, and a wise eagle take on big adventures while learning about wildlife, science, and the world around them.

Young Thorin Ravenwood overlooking Elderwood at sunrise
Elderwood

Thorin Ravenwood

Before the storm awakens, Thorin is a village boy learning family, courage, duty, and the world beyond Ravenwood.

Old Garrick
Fireside Fables

Old Garrick

A storyteller, warden, and family elder whose fireside tales open the door to myths, creatures, adventures, and lessons worth carrying forward.

Watch the originals

Three Original Doors into Quest Kids

Watch Quest Kids Wild and Elderwood now, and meet Fireside Fables as it moves through early production.

Quest Kids Wild

Adventure, Wildlife, Discovery

Connor, Fang, and Orin turn wildlife exploration into character-led educational adventure, with animal facts, habitats, science, conservation, and memorable Wild Fact moments.

Elderwood

The World Before the Storm

Enter Ravenwood Valley through the completed official opening and meet Thorin during the warm village years before the larger saga begins.

Old Garrick for Fireside Fables
Fireside Fables

Timeless Stories, Brighter Tomorrows

Old Garrick gathers the family by the hearth and opens the door to illustrated myths, creatures, adventures, and legends. Pilot development is underway.

Discover Fireside FablesVideo coming soon
Catalog Acquisition

Our Library Is Growing

Quest Animation is in the final stages of adding a substantial IP library of kids and family animation to the Quest Kids ecosystem.

600+episodes in our growing libraryCatalog still expanding
20+animated properties in the growing catalogTitles announced as they clear
Global + U.S.mixed rights profile with multilingual versionsRights vary by title
Merchselected licensing & merchandising potentialProperty-specific rights

Our catalog of content is built for multi-platform distribution

The growing library adds established kids and family animation, multilingual versions across parts of the catalog, and depth for FAST, AVOD, SVOD, OTT, Connected TV, streaming, and linear programming.

Selected properties are also expected to support broader franchise activity after close, including licensing, merchandising, and related exploitation opportunities, subject to the final rights schedule and title-specific exclusions.

Our content is growing

  • Established family animation with long-tail value
  • Action, adventure, fantasy and comedy programming
  • FAST, AVOD, SVOD, OTT, streaming, Connected TV, and linear utility
  • Multilingual versions
  • Syndication opportunities

What we can say today

  • Rights vary by title and territory
  • IP characters and franchise rights vary by property
  • Original Quest IP stays wholly owned
  • Restored & Enhanced Editions add proprietary new elements on cleared source material

Quest Kids strategy: Original Quest IP + a major incoming catalogue acquisition + Quest Restored & Enhanced Editions of classic family programming — with room for streaming, licensing, merchandising, and franchise expansion.

Quest Restored & Enhanced Editions

Classic programming, rebuilt for modern screens

Quest is developing a growing family library from verified public-domain source works and other appropriately cleared material, using restoration and creative enhancement to create distinctive Quest editions.

What Quest owns in an enhanced edition

The underlying public-domain work remains public domain. Quest's ownership claim is limited to qualifying new original authorship and production elements created for the specific Quest edition — not the underlying source itself.

UNDERLYING WORK: PUBLIC DOMAIN
QUEST ENHANCED EDITION: PROPRIETARY NEW ELEMENTS

Mechanical cleanup or upscaling alone is not treated as the ownership claim. Quest documents the human-directed creative elements added to each enhanced version.

Human-directed colorizationCreative color decisions and supervised finishing where applicable.
New sound & musicQuest-created or separately cleared music, sound design, and mixes.
New graphics & brandingOpenings, closings, title cards, interstitials, and channel packaging.
Editorial & narrationNew edits, assemblies, narration, localization, and other original production choices.
Launching later this year

Quest Kids is where you are

Quest Kids is preparing for broad distribution across Connected TV, mobile, and streaming through planned platform-specific app and store deployments.

RokuFire TVApple TVAndroid TV / Google TViOSAndroidStreamingSamsung Smart TV / TizenLG Smart TV

Connected TV

Planned deployments across Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV / Google TV, Samsung Smart TV, and LG Smart TV ecosystems.

Mobile + Streaming

Dedicated iOS and Android access alongside a streaming experience, giving families a consistent Quest Kids destination across screens.

FAST / AVOD / SVOD

Originals, catalog programming, and enhanced classics can support always-on channels and on-demand collections.

International

Multi-language catalogue versions and title-by-title territorial distribution create additional reach beyond the U.S. launch.

Available on iOS and Android compatible systems. Connected TV covers the living-room apps; mobile covers phones and tablets. Families find Quest Kids on the device they already use.
Quest Animation studio services

Restore, Enhance, Reintroduce

A full remastering and modernization pipeline for networks, FAST operators, rights holders, and archives — plus the creative enhancement workflow behind Quest Restored & Enhanced Editions.

SD → HD / 4K

AI-assisted upscaling with manual polish, artifact cleanup, and scene matching.

Restoration & enhancement

Dropout and noise correction, stabilization, color recovery, human-directed colorization, graphics, and archival masters where appropriate.

Compliance & captions

Broadcast-legal QC, FCC and streaming captions, multi-language subtitles.

Delivery

ProRes, DNxHR, H.265, and IMF — OTT-, FAST-, and broadcast-ready.

The Heart Before the Legend

Before the Storm There Was Home

Elderwood is where Thorin and Lila first learn what family, courage, loss, and wonder mean. That warmth becomes the emotional foundation beneath everything the Ravenwood Universe grows into.

Young Thorin overlooking Elderwood at sunrise
Young Thorin

A hero before the storm

Curious, restless, and still surrounded by the home that will shape every choice he makes later.

Lila Ravenwood holding a white rabbit in Elderwood
Lila Ravenwood

The light at the hearth

Lila brings warmth, wonder, and the family heart that keeps Ravenwood human even as the mythology grows darker.

And then, after dark —

When the sun goes down, the real story begins: a founder-created, wholly-owned story universe — from family firesides to 18+ gothic horror.

Quest Fantasy
Quest Dark
Quest Fantasy · The Ravenwood Universe

10 Books, Two Tones, One Mythology

One connected mythology grows from Elderwood warmth into the Stormweaver Saga and beyond. The visual language deepens as the audience ages, while the family-facing and mature banners remain clearly separated.

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Fireside Fables

A live-action and animation anthology — Old Garrick tells tales by the fire. The first original into production.

All ages
II

Elderwood

Four warm seasons of Thorin's village years — ending the very night the film begins.

Ages 6–11
III

Stormweaver

The planned feature film — Book I of the saga, adapted for the screen.

Family / 8+
IV

Thorin's Quest

The action saga continues beyond the film, drawn from Books II–VI.

Teen / 18+
V

Thorn & Veil

18+ gothic horror under a separate banner — Thorin's twin daughters against the Sundered God.

18+

From storytime to 18+ fantasy — one mythology, climbing with you.

Animation styles

The Animation Styles of the Ravenwood Universe

Animation styles across the Ravenwood Universe, spanning Thorin Ravenwood's life from childhood through the Stormweaver Saga — 2D through photoreal — reflecting the distinct visual languages of Quest Kids and Quest Fantasy.

Presented with production audio; final score and mix are part of the finishing process.

Painterly study of Thorin Ravenwood and the lightning-wolf Stormfang Thorin & Stormfang — painterly study
Planned feature film

Stormweaver

  • Three novels already in print — with verified five-star reviews across the saga. See the books
  • Book IV manuscript complete — the larger series is mapped through Book X.
  • A 72-shot pilot production package is finished — pre-production can start on day one.
  • Elderwood feeds it; Thorin's Quest extends it — the kids' series ends the night the film begins.

"A decade of adaptable source material — already written, already mapped."

The Company of Stormweaver on the final ride west beneath the storm sigil
The final ride west — the Company beneath the storm sigil. From Book IV: Throne of Ash and Storm.
A village girl offers Thorin Ravenwood a sprig of heather at Black Cairn Glen
The heather offering at Black Cairn Glen — the heart the film is reaching for. From Book IV: Throne of Ash and Storm.
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Novels already in print — the saga's foundation is published, not pitched.
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Books mapped across the Ravenwood Universe, Saga through Thorn & Veil.
Book IV
Throne of Ash and Storm manuscript complete — the series is mapped through Book X.
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Wholly-owned IP. No licenses to clear, no rights to share.
Read the Stormweaver Saga

Four Doors into One Growing World

Three novels are in print. Each published volume links to its own page on Amazon. Book IV, Throne of Ash and Storm, is complete and mapped with the rest of the series.

★★★★★ Reviews

Five-star verified reader reviews on Amazon

"The way the Blood of Ancient Kings actually manifests as power is such a cool concept — it's not just a title, it's a burden."

RM Guerra · Book I

"Both timeless and incredibly fresh… a phenomenal entry into the Stormweaver universe."

Melinda Faye Conner · Book I

"Bigger, darker, and more emotional than the first book… cold landscapes, ancient forces, and a constant sense that something powerful is awakening."

Cesar · Book II

"Deeper world-building, higher stakes, and that perfect mix of magic and Highland grit. Read it in two days."

Franck Belibi · Book II
The Stormweaver Codex

Meet the Characters of Stormweaver

Character codex cards from the Stormweaver production bible — Thorin Ravenwood, Stormfang, Eilidh, and the company, with art and lore development already done. Drag, scroll, or use the arrows to meet them.

The Company of Stormweaver riding through the Highlands with the wolf Stormfang
The Company rides — Thorin, Eilidh, and the fellowship, with Stormfang at the fore.
Codex card: Thorin Ravenwood, Heir of Storm and Steel Codex card: Stormfang, Wolf of the Storm Codex card: Eilidh, Shield of Thorin Codex card: Garrick, the Warden Codex card: Rennik, the Watchful Ranger Codex card: Lirael, the Mystic Codex card: Shiori, Keeper of Blossoms
A separate mature-content banner

When the mythology grows darker, the brand changes with it.

Quest Dark is the clearly separated home for mature Ravenwood stories. It does not share the Quest Kids presentation, programming lane, or audience positioning.

Separate banner · Separate rating · Separate marketing · Quest Kids remains family-first
The pipeline

Artists Amplified

Quest Animation is the mothership. One AI-human hybrid pipeline powers both worlds — Quest Kids Saturday-morning fun and Quest Fantasy Ravenwood dark alike — with human leads holding quality at every gate.

Write

Weeks, not months

A writers' room supported by AI drafting and localization compresses pre-production.

Design

Characters stay true

Custom-trained style models keep every frame on-model; artists refine, AI iterates.

Animate

Months, not years

Hybrid generation plus human polish collapses animation cycles.

Protect

Authorship on record

Human creative authorship is documented at every stage — registrations, logs, chain of title.

"The goal isn't replacing artists — it's amplifying their imagination."

Studio location

Built in Clifton Forge, Virginia, USA

A working production home

A phased studio build-out in the Alleghany Highlands — production floor, voice booth, and remastering infrastructure under one roof.

A state that backs film

Virginia's production incentive programs and motion picture funds make it one of the smartest places in America to build an animation studio.

Jobs where they're needed

A creative-economy anchor for a historic railroad town — training and hiring local talent as the studio grows.

Founder & Chief Creative Officer · Vision

Steven E. Turner

Quest Animation exists to build worlds families can grow up inside. The work ahead is original IP — Quest Kids, Elderwood, Fireside Fables, and the Ravenwood Universe — made to last across episodes, books, and the screens people already watch.

Saturday-morning wonder and the darker Ravenwood mythology stay clearly separated, so each audience gets the story meant for them. The studio's job is to keep that promise as the universe expands.

Artists stay in the lead. Technology amplifies their imagination; it never replaces it. We build worlds designed to inspire, immerse, and endure.

"Every studio starts as two kids drawing."

Connect with Steven on LinkedIn →

Leadership

The team behind the universe

An operator and a world-builder — business execution and creative vision under one roof.

Joseph Mendel, Chief Executive Officer of Quest Animation
Chief Executive Officer

Joseph Mendel

C-level executive focused on growth, digital transformation, and enterprise strategy across entertainment, healthcare, financial services, and emerging technologies. Joe's specialty is translating strategy into measurable business outcomes — accelerating time-to-value, scaling operations, and aligning business and technology for sustainable performance.

B.S.B.A., Duquesne University · Pittsburgh, PA · LinkedIn →

Steven E. Turner, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Quest Animation
Founder & Chief Creative Officer · Bio

Steven E. Turner

Media executive, artist, and author with 15+ years building platforms across IPTV, OTT, FAST, and broadcast — founder of SimulTV, grown from a $4M raise to a negotiated $30M acquisition agreement, and later President of Mojo Media's 27 owned-and-operated networks. His IP portfolio spans 25+ trademarks and 7+ patents in AI-driven media technology. A CCAD-trained artist who interned with Disney Animation on The Lion King, he is the author of the Stormweaver Saga and architect of the Ravenwood Universe.

Marquis Who's Who Honored Listee (2025) · LinkedIn →

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