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The folks at (the now absorbed) Turner Feature Animation, however, did what was unthinkable for the era—it crafted a movie of serious theme while wrapping it all in a cartoon's winsome, irreverent skin. Imagine Bugs Bunny, in all his stretchy, wacky stylings, fighting for racial (or species) equality in a 1940s-esque motion picture.
- Blue Sky Studios
- Topcraft
- Sullivan-Bluth Studios
- Amblimation
- Hanna-Barbera Productions
- Filmation
- Turner Feature Animation
- Kroyer Films
- Disneytoon Studios
- Richard Williams Productions
After MAGI/Synthavision, the company that did the effects of TRON, collapsed, many of the former animators decided to team up and make their own company. Thanks to the rise of Pixar, Blue Sky Studios was picked up by 20th Century Fox after closing their own animation department. With Fox's backing, Blue Sky released Ice Ageand would prove to be ano...
Founded by Japanese animator, Toru Hara, Topcraft took many animators from Toei animation who felt the studio had peaked in the early 70s. They would team up with Rankin/Basss to produce a number of non-stop motion films, including The Hobbit, Flight of the Dragons, and The Last Unicorn. They also worked with Hayao Miyazaki to release Nasuka and th...
After splitting from Disney, animator Don Bluth established his own company to produce The Secret of NIMH and the video games Dragon's Lair and Space Ace. After the Video Game Crash of 1983, Bluth convinced semi-retired businessman Morris Sullivanto help him set up a new studio. Sullivan also convinced them to move to Dublin, Ireland, to take advan...
By the mid-80s, Steven Spielberg was interested in dipping his toe into animation. He teamed up with Don Bluth to release An American Tale and The Land Before Time, and partnered with Disney on Who Framed Roger Rabbit.After Bluth cut ties with Spielberg, he opened Amblimation in 1991 to keep making animated projects. Unfortunately, Spielberg had a ...
Nobody believed animation could meet a fast-paced television schedule for the longest time. Fortunately, Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of Tom and Jerry, pioneered new animation techniques to save costs, such as repeat pans for backgrounds and collars and ties for their characters to make animating heads easier. Though the quality of t...
Though Hanna-Barbera pioneered releasing animation for television format, they soon found competition in Filmation. They tackled animated shows with a "people before art," mentality, which meant that they refused to outsource their animation, even if it would be cheaper. They made up for this with strong writing and the majority of their products f...
Although Turner Entertainment had released a few animated films, especially after acquiring Tom and Jerry, they lacked an animation division of their own. That changed in 1991, after acquiring Hanna-Barbera's film divisions. The new Turner Feature Animation was then headed by David Kirschner, a producer, and screenwriter who had worked on An Americ...
Bill Kroyer got his start working at Disney during the 80s, but soon left to found his own animation studio with his wife, Susan Kroyer. Though the studio would only be open for eight years, it was considered a pioneer in combining hand drawn and CGI animation. Their first short, Technological Threat,was nominated for the 1989 Academy Award for Bes...
During the animation Renaissance of the 90s, Disney decided to open a new studio to focus on making films that tied into their television shows. After the disappointing box office of The Rescuers Downunder,they also tasked the studio with making all future sequels to their animated canon. Though a few were released theatrically, most would be strai...
Learning from the best animators from the Golden Age of Animation, Richard Williams soon opened his own animation company. He got his start animating title sequences in the 60s, then won the Acadamy Award for Best Animated Short in 1972 for his adaptation of A Christmas Carol. The studio's most famous project was Who Framed Roger Rabbit,where Willi...
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Sep 27, 2002 · Dindal, who later was hired by Disney to direct The Emperor’s New Groove, was a good choice, but the feature did not perform that well in the box office. However, this did not mean that the feature was not good. Cats Don’t Dance even went on to win the Annie Award for best Animated Feature for 1997 beating out Walt Disney’s Hercules.
Feb 2, 2021 · In the late 1990s, right at the height of the Disney Renaissance and before American animation diverged into snappy comedies and more serious adventures, the short-lived Turner Animation and Warner...
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Dec 27, 2022 · Turner Feature Animation was spun off from the feature film division of Hanna-Barbera Productions but was later merged into Warner Brothers Feature Animation just as production was being finished on Cats Don’t Dance resulting in the film not receiving much promotion when it was originally released.
Mar 1, 2021 · One of the strangest longterm failures of the Warner Bros. studio is its inability to parlay its decades-long short-form cartoon success from the ’30s through the ’50s (not to mention its...
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May 17, 2022 · Cat’s Don’t Dance was lost in the various shuffles as studio leadership changed, and, sadly, Turner Feature Animation closed. When the film opened on March 26th, 1997, it arrived with very little marketing, generated only $3.6 million at the box office, and quickly disappeared.
