Universal Animation Studios
Universal Animation Studios, formerly known as Universal Cartoon Studios, is an American animation studio that is a subsidiary of Comcast's NBCUniversal and a division of Universal Pictures. It has produced sequels to Universal-released feature films, such as The Land Before Time, An American Tail, Balto, as well as other films and television series.
History
The actual animation production is done overseas, usually by either Wang Film Productions or Rough Draft Studios, while pre-production and post-production is United States-based.On August 22, 2016, the television animation divisions of Universal and DreamWorks merged after Universal completed its acquisition of DreamWorks Animation.
Filmography
Feature films
Theatrical feature films
| Title | Release date | Co-production with |
| Curious George | Imagine Entertainment | |
| Woody Woodpecker | Universal 1440 Entertainment |
Direct-to-video feature films
Television series
Short films
- Fractured Fairy Tales: The Phox, the Box, & the Lox
Television specials
- A Wish for Wings That Work
- How Murray Saved Christmas
Miscellaneous work
- 63rd Academy Awards - animation for Woody Woodpecker presenting the award for Best Animated Short Film
- Kids WB! promos - Earthworm Jim segments.
- The Incredible Hulk Coaster - traditionally animated introduction.
- The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man - traditionally-animated introduction
- Dudley-Do Right’s RipSaw Falls - traditionally-animated queue video.
Cancelled projects
- Escape from Jurassic Park, an animated TV series that takes place after the first Jurassic Park movie and before '. While a pitchfilm was made and character designs, outlines and backgrounds had been created, Steven Spielberg never saw it and cancelled it after the storyboards were finished.
- Crash Bandicoot cut scenes, cut scenes that were unused for the first Crash Bandicoot video game due to Sony wanting to push the 3D graphics. It has been theorized that these were going to be used as the basis for a Crash Bandicoot animated series.
- ', another animated Jurassic Park TV series which takes place after and before Jurassic Park III. It would also be accompanied by the toy series under the same name by Kenner Toys. It would've involved a group of scientists having created dinosaur hybrids consisting of DNA from different creatures. However, like its predecessor series, its production was cancelled.