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-Aardman-
Offices: Bristol, England
Peter Lord and David Sproxton began their animating partnership in their
school days. At first only a hobby, commercial success came when they sold
a 20-second animated cartoon to the BBC TV program "Vision On". The star
of that brief clip was a dead-pan superhero they called Aardman. In 1976
they established Aardman Animations in Bristol.
Offices: Houston, Texas
Parent company, AD Vision, encompasses a multitude of complementary
media divisions (including home video, television, publishing,
theatrical, online, mobile, licensing and merchandising) and continues
to actively expand to territories worldwide. Its Anime Network is
America's first and only television network dedicated to bringing anime
and anime-related programming to consumers nationwide via digital cable
24 hours a day.
Offices: Rochester, New York
Animatus Studio has been operating 1989. They specialize in traditional
animation for film and video, but also handle web animation, 3D and 2D graphics,
and video editing. They use an Oxberry animation camera for film titles
and animation, but most of our work lately has been in video and the digital
arena. To this end, they use programs like Photoshop, After Effects, 3D
Studio Max, Lightwave, and Macromedia Flash.
Offices: Van Nuys, California
Animax Entertainment creates comedic character driven content for all screens.
Winners of the first-ever broadband Emmy Award, Animax produces animation,
viral videos, games and websites for kids, teens and adults. Their team
of writers, artists and programmers create original content for AOL, Disney,
ESPN, Fox, Kodak, Sesame, Starz and themselves. They are an Adobe Solution
Partner, a mentor at the AFI Digital Content Lab and they own a pet dragon.
Offices: Syracuse, New York
Since 1983, clients have relied on Animotion for story and character development,
animation, backgrounds, sound production and development of accompanying
print material. Animotion’s expertise with human and animal characters for
children and adults has brought them work on major motion pictures, CD-ROMs
for the educational and entertainment markets, Web Site development as well
as commercials for local and national television ad campaigns. Through the
years they have maintained their love of animation and their commitment
to giving their customers more than their moneys worth.-Big-
Offices: Franklin, Tennessee
Most major media companies today name shareholder value or profitability
as their top priority. At Big Idea, their priorities are: people first,
products second, profits third. Profiting is like breathing. As humans,
they must breathe to live, but they do not live to breathe. As a company,
Big Idea must profit to exist, but they will not exist merely to profit.
Achieving their goal of building a top four family media brand takes a tremendous
amount of capital, but they will never sacrifice the needs of kids or of
their employees simply to increase their wealth.
Offices: Sherman Oaks, California
Since founding his own production company, Bill Melendez Productions, in
1964, Bill's work has continued to win awards and applause. Alongside his
commercial work, in 1964 Bill produced his first television special, A Charlie
Brown Christmas. Despite being forced to bring it on a short schedule and
tight budget, he managed to garner both an Emmy Award (the first of eight)
and the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Children/Young
People's program..
Offices: Culver City, California
Academy Award winning Blue Sky Studios became a wholly owned unit of Fox
Filmed Entertainment in 1997 (a subsidiary of News Corporation). The studio
was founded ten years earlier with a mission to pioneer creatively superior
photo-realistic, high-resolution, computer-generated character animation
for the feature film, television and entertainment industries. Throughout
their history, the people at Blue Sky Studios have maintained a single-minded
focus on creating high quality imagery, while upholding the highest production
standards.
Offices: Ottawa, Ontario
Boomstone is a full service animation production house developing their
own properties as well as producing episodic animation for Canadian, European
and American Producers. A strong creative and production team heads the
firm, including Lee Williams, Rich Vanatte, Claire Wilmut and Weldon Poapst
who have built their many years experience in all aspects of animation production
including producing, directing, animation, design and production management.-Cat-
Offices: Dallas, Texas
CAT was established in 1986 as a high-end 3-D animation facility and has
grown to become the central US’ largest premier high-end 3-D and special
effects studio. Housed in a new 11,000 square foot animation facility including
its 6,800 square foot “optical motion capture” studio, CAT is currently
one of the largest studios in the US dedicated to motion capture work, special
effects, 3D animated films, commercials, music videos, and full production.
CAT’s facility is designed to accommodate feature-length animation production
work, with room to house as many as 120 animators. -DIC-
Offices: Burbank, California
DIC Entertainment, a fully-integrated global brand management company, is
dedicated to creating, developing, producing, distributing, marketing and
merchandising family-based intellectual properties. DIC serves as the worldwide
licensor or licensing agent for renowned brands, such as Strawberry Shortcake,
McDonald's, Madeline and Classic Trolls. The company has also distinguished
itself by building one of the largest libraries of animation with approximately
2,800 half-hours of programming.
Offices: New York, New York
They create animated content for television, film, the Internet and New
Media. DMA's creative team designs and creates character driven animation
for network television shows, national commercials and web based content.
They are best known for their award winning work in children's television.
At DMA, they conceptualize and design the characters. They produce the animation
at their studio. And they deliver it in any media you chose.
Offices: Burbank, California
DreamWorks Animation is devoted to producing high-quality family entertainment
through the use of computer-generated (CG) animation. With world-class creative
talent and technological capabilities, their goal is to release two CG animated
feature films a year that deliver great stories, breathtaking visual imagery
and a sensibility that appeals to both children and adults. With each film,
they strive to tell great stories that are fun and comedic, told with a
level of sophistication and irreverence that appeals to the broadest audience
possible and captures the imaginations of all people regardless of age.
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