In this blog, I'm going to introduce you some of the most famous and capable animation studios in the world. After searching for some ranking of those studios, I decided to talk about the Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Aardman Studios, and the Dreamworks animation.
Walt Disney Animation Studios:
Walt Disney Animation Studios is an American animation studio and the subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company responsible for creating the company's well-known animated films. Compared with the Pixar, the Walt Disney Animation Studio has really a long history and much more productions. The Walt Disney Studios released its first fully animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in 1937, which was an unprecedented success at that time. The movie also pioneered a new form of family entertainment which becomes quite popular and has plunged into the depth of the audiences' heart in nowadays.
This Animation studio is noted for creating a great number of now-standard innovations in the animation industry, including The multiplane camera, The realistic animation of special effects and human characters, Advanced composition processes to combine live-action and animated elements using color film, The use of xerography in animation to transfer drawings to cels as opposed to ink-tracing, The use of all-digital methods for painting, compositing, and recording animated features CAPS (Computer Animation Production System), and The technique for rendering animations in a painterly style. The Lion King(1994), etc. The following picture is from its offical website. Besides, its features are deeply planted into people's heart than any other animation features ever in the world. The most famous should be the Micky Mouse which the Disney company put it along with their sign. There prosuction of cartoon series and films are over 50 famous ones include the Pinocchio(1940), Alice in Wonderland(1951), The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh(1977),
Pixar Animation Studios:
Pixar is an American CGI animation film studio began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, was part of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm before it was acquired by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 1986. The company made a lots of short animation films as long as 11 long movies. Their long movies are mostly in corperation with the Walt Disney Company. However, Pixar became a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company in 2006.
To most people, Pixal was brought to fame by the Toy Story in 1995. But in the early years of the Pixar, they experienced a really tough time but all the staff are ambitious to search for new things for animations. Within 20 yeas, Pixar has become a well-known studio and influenced the development of animation movies geatly which have closely realationship with its hard work in the early years.
Nowadays, almost everybody known Pixar, and many people rank it the first of the animation studios in the world. Pixar has created so many features that deeply impressed us. The followings are some of the features.
Aardman Studios
Aardman Studios is an Academy Award-winning British animation studio which is the best stop-motion clay animation film maker in the world. Founded in 1976, the two founders, Peter Lord and David Sproxton, just wanted to realise their dream of producing an animated motion picture. However, it successfully entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2006).
While making many short series for BBC, Aardman Studios also made some feature moves, including five cooperated with the Dreamwork. The most famous one is the Chicken Run which I have introduced in older blogs. Wallace and Gromit may be their most well-known animation characters and they shooted four in total.
Making this kind of animation is really a time consuming thing, since you have to take every single picture as the frames. There are not many people are willing to devote to stop-motion film making. So I consider Aardman really precious and I own much respect to them.
Dreamworks animation:
DreamWorks began in 1994 as an ambitious attempt by media moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to create a new Hollywood studio. In December 2005, the founders agreed to sell the studio to Viacom, parent of Paramount Pictures. In 2008, DreamWorks announced its intention to end its partnership with Paramount and signed a US$1.5 billion deal to produce films with India's Reliance ADA Group. Reliance provided $325M of equity to fund recreating Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio as an independent entity.
Although its quite young but in the recent decade, they really made several big production in the market of animation, such as Shrek(2001), Madagascar(2005), Flushed away(2006),etc.
Other great animation studios include the Blue Sky Studios, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Toei Animation, Gainax, ProductionIG,ect. I will introduce them one by one later!
Reference: http://www.disneyanimation.com/
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