Animation Companys

Animation Company's

Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgements. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide. It is best known for its CGI-animated feature films created with Photo realistic Render Man, its own implementation of the industry-standard Render Man image-rendering application programming interface used to generate high-quality images. Began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm before it was acquired by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs in 1986. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion

Warner Bros. Animation

Warner Bros. Animation is the animation division of Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner. The studio is closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters, among others. The studio is the successor to Warner Bros. Cartoons (formerly Leon Schlesinger Productions), the studio which produced Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon shorts from 1933 to 1963, and from 1967 to 1969. Warner reestablished its own animation division in 1980 to produce Looney Tunes related works.

Since 1990, Warner Bros. Animation has primarily focused upon the production of television and feature animation of other properties, notably including those related to Time Warner's DC Comics publications.

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Walt Disney Animation Studios is an American animation studio headquartered in Burbank, California. The studio, founded in 1923 as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio by brothers Walt and Roy Disney, is the oldest subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. It is responsible for creating the company's well-known animated feature films and short subjects.

From 1926 to 1929 the studio was known as The Walt Disney Studio. In 1929 the company restructured and diversified under the name Walt Disney Productions, Ltd. The animation studio was then an integrated part of Walt Disney Productions which also included other divisions such as the live action film studio. In 1986 the company again restructured, creating The Walt Disney Company as a separate parent company, and making the animation studio an official subsidiary, called at the time Walt Disney Feature Animation. The division took on its current name in 2007.

Universal Animation Studios

Universal Animation Studios (formerly known as Universal Cartoon Studios), is an American animation studio which is a division of Universal Studios.

It is best-known for producing sequels to either Amblimation or Amblin Entertainment and Sullivan-Bluth feature films, such as The Land Before Time, An American Tail, Balto and other films and television series, using traditional and computer animation techniques.

The actual animation production is done overseas, most notably by either Wang Film Productions or Rough Draft Studios, with pre-production and post-production is United States-based.

UAS also manages its parent company's rights to various other animation works that were produced at other studios but copyrighted and/or distributed by NBC or Universal.