Pixar Animation Studios,known simply as Pixar,is an American animation studio based in Emeryville,California,known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Since 2006,Pixar has been a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios,a division of Disney Entertainment,a segment of the Walt Disney Company.
Modern animation in the United States from the late 1980s to 2004 is frequently referred to as the renaissance age of American animation. During this period,many large American entertainment companies reformed and reinvigorated their animation departments,following the dark age,and the United States had an influence on global and worldwide animation.
Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios,a division of Disney Entertainment,which is owned by The Walt Disney Company. The studio is the flagship producer of live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Studios unit,and is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank,California. Animated films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios are also released under the studio banner. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributes and markets the films produced by Walt Disney Pictures.
Blue Sky Studios,Inc. was an American visual effects and computer animation studio based in Greenwich,Connecticut. It was founded on February 22,1987,by Chris Wedge,Michael Ferraro,Carl Ludwig,Alison Brown,David Brown,and Eugene Troubetzkoy after their employer,MAGI,one of the visual effects studios behind Tron,shut down. Using its in-house rendering software,the studio created visual effects for commercials and films before dedicating itself to animated film production. It produced 13 feature films,the first being Ice Age,released in 2002 by 20th Century Fox,and the final one being Spies in Disguise,released in 2019.
Marvel Studios,LLC,formerly known as Marvel Films,is an American film and television production company. Marvel Studios is the creator of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU),a media franchise and shared universe of films and television series produced by the studio,based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications. The studio was founded in 1993 by Avi Arad as part of Marvel Entertainment and has been led by producer Kevin Feige,who serves as its president,since 2007. The studio originally licensed the film rights to several Marvel characters before beginning to produce its own films in 2004,and has since regained many of those rights. The Walt Disney Company acquired the studio in 2009,along with the rest of Marvel,and transferred it in August 2015 to become a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios,where it is part of Disney Entertainment. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has distributed most of the studio's films since The Avengers (2012).
John Alan Lasseter is an American film director,producer,and animator. He has served as the Head of Animation at Skydance Animation since 2019. Previously,he acted as the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios,Walt Disney Animation Studios,and Disneytoon Studios,as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering.
The Walt Disney Studios is a major division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of The Walt Disney Company best known for housing its multifaceted film studio divisions. Founded on October 16,1923,and based mainly at the namesake studio lot in Burbank,California,it is the seventh-oldest global film studio and the fifth-oldest in the United States,a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and one of the "Big Five" major film studios.
Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS),sometimes shortened to Disney Animation,is an American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company. The studio's current production logo features a scene from its first synchronized sound cartoon,Steamboat Willie (1928). Founded on October 16,1923,by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney after the closure of Laugh-O-Gram Studio,it is the longest-running animation studio in the world. It is currently organized as a division of Walt Disney Studios and is headquartered at the Roy E. Disney Animation Building at the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank,California. Since its foundation,the studio has produced 62 feature films,from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Wish (2023),and hundreds of short films.
Disneytoon Studios (DTS),originally named Disney MovieToons and also formerly Walt Disney Video Premieres,was an American animation studio which created direct-to-video and occasional theatrical animated feature films. The studio was a division of Walt Disney Animation Studios,with both being part of The Walt Disney Studios,itself a division of The Walt Disney Company. The studio produced 47 feature films,beginning with DuckTales the Movie:Treasure of the Lost Lamp in 1990. Its final feature film was Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast in 2015.
Andrew Ayers Stanton is an American filmmaker and voice actor based at Pixar,which he joined in 1990. His film work includes co-writing and co-directing Pixar's A Bug's Life (1998),directing Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016),WALL-E (2008),and the live-action film,Disney's John Carter (2012),and co-writing all five and directing the upcoming latter in Toy Story films (1995–2026) and Monsters,Inc. (2001).
Disney Television Animation (DTVA) is an American animation studio that serves as the television animation production arm of Disney Branded Television,a division of Disney General Entertainment Content,which is a division of Disney Entertainment. The studio was originally established in 1984,by Gary Krisel during the reorganization and subsequent re-incorporation of Disney following the arrival of then CEO Michael Eisner that year.
Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida was a division of Walt Disney Feature Animation that operated from 1989 to 2004. Its offices were backlot of the Disney MGM Studios theme park and visitors were allowed to tour the studio in The Magic of Disney Animation attraction to observe animators at work from behind glass-paneled overhead breezeways. The division had primarily animated Mulan,Lilo &Stitch and Brother Bear.
20th Century Animation,Inc. is an American animation studio located in Century City,Los Angeles. Formed in 1994,it is organized as a division and label of 20th Century Studios,a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Studios,and is tasked with producing animated feature-length films. At one point,20th Century Animation had two subsidiaries:Fox Animation Studios,which was shut down on June 26,2000,and Blue Sky Studios,which was closed on April 10,2021. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment distributes the films produced by 20th Century Animation in home media under the 20th Century Home Entertainment banner.
Thomas Schumacher is a film and theatrical producer,currently president of Disney Theatrical Group,the theatrical production arm of The Walt Disney Company.
The Walt Disney Company France,formerly Walt Disney Mickey Mouse,S.A. and Walt Disney Productions France,is one of The Walt Disney Company's international divisions and also European divisions. It is headquartered in Paris,Île-de-France.
Paramount Animation is an American animation studio,serving as the animation division and label of Paramount Pictures,a subsidiary of Paramount Global. The division was founded on July 6,2011,following the box office success of Paramount's own Rango and the end of their distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation in 2012.
Eric Coleman is an American producer for television and film. From 2008 to 2019,he was the senior vice president of Disney Television Animation. He currently is a producer at Paramount Pictures.
20th Century Family is a division of 20th Century Studios which produces family-friendly films and television programs. Besides theatrical films,the division oversees mixed media,family animated holiday television specials based on film properties,and feature films based on TV shows.
