About my animation studio client: We fixed the problem by sending delegations from each team to the other.
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"Epic" had the smallest three-day opening ever for a movie made by the Fox-owned animation studio Blue Sky Studios.
One of my consulting clients, an animation studio in Los Angeles, was having a problem with its Japanese subsidiary.
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In June, Rovio acquired Finnish animation studio Kombo and hired the ex chairman of Marvel to produce a future feature film.
Despite its lack of 3-D, lack of a known animation studio and ornate animation Rango should top the box office this weekend.
The JibJab team is employing both in-house art talent in their Venice Beach-based animation studio, and illustrators all around the world to create StoryBots.
Lasseter, 52, helped create Pixar, which in recent years has overtaken Disney's internal animation division as the most important animation studio in the country.
The company need look no further than the record of its founder, who made a fortune by investing in a little known animation studio.
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Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal was formed 17 years ago after a public charity appeal to build a new children's hospital that enlisted the help of Bristol-based animation studio Aardman Animations.
When it came time for new digs at Pixar, the animation studio he bought in 1986, Jobs wanted a huge building around a central atrium to encourage people to bump into one another.
In June, Rovio acquired Kombo, the Finnish animation studio, to expand its in-house animation capabilities and it recently secured a grant from the Finnish Film Foundation to start planning its first full length animation film.
"Sometimes we have to create animation to support the studio, not have the studio to support the animation, " he said.
Disney has virtually abandoned old-fashioned, hand-drawn animation it is closing its Florida studio and the feature-animation business will pare down to 600 employees, compared with 2, 200 at the peak in 1999.
DreamWorks Animation is building a studio in Shanghai with local partners.
"It's a preconception with a modern house that everything in it has to be really small, " said Mr. Damaschke, 48-year-old chief creative officer at movie studio DreamWorks Animation, noting the 15-seat couch that anchors the living room.
Loosely inspired by an urban myth, the film started out as a one-minute project that would let Studio AKA test out its animation skills.
While Amorphium lets you add some basic motion to scenes, it's not a full-blown animation package along the lines of Kinetix's 3D Studio Max.
Uniquely in Hollywood, many of Disney's movies come not from its namesake studio but corporate siblings including Marvel Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, and, soon, Lucasfilm, the company behind "Star Wars" that Disney acquired last year.
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Much of that responsibility at DreamWorks Animation falls to Bill Damaschke, the co-president of production at the studio.
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On the studio front, Paramount was the most represented with four on the list, including DreamWorks Animation projects.
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