Cambridge Animation Systems was used by the British studio that was headquartered in what part of Manchester?
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Cambridge Animation Systems Cambridge Animation Systems was a British software company that developed a traditional animation software package called Animo, and is now part of Canadian company Toon Boom Animation. It was based in Cambridge, England, hence the name. Established in 1990, it created the Animo software in 1992 after acquiring Compose in Color, which was developed by Oliver Unter-ecker. Animo was used for several animated feature films, shorts, and television series, and it powered the UK animation industry until the 2000s as it was used by studios like King Rollo Films, Telemagination, and Cosgrove Hall Films, but it was also used by studios in other countries, most notably Warner Bros. Feature Animation, DreamWorks, and Nelvana. In total, Animo was used by over 300 studios worldwide.
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Cosgrove Hall Films Cosgrove Hall Films (also known as Cosgrove Hall Productions) was a British animation studio founded by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall; its headquarters was in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. Cosgrove Hall was once a major producer of children's television and animated programmes; Cosgrove Hall's programmes are still seen in over eighty countries. The company was wound down by its then owner, ITV plc, on 26 October 2009.
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Granada Studios Tour Granada Studios Tour was an entertainment theme park at the Granada Studios complex in Castlefield, Manchester, England which operated from 1988 to 1999. The park was located in the heart of Manchester city centre adjacent to the Granada House building.
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Cambridge SoundWorks Cambridge SoundWorks is a Massachusetts-based consumer audio manufacturer and retailer.
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John David Wilson John David Wilson (8 August 1919 – 20 June 2013) was an English artist, animator and producer. He owned his own production studio, Fine Arts Films.
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Triffic Films Triffic Films was a British animation company, based in Stony Stratford, a constituent town of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.
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Walthamstow Studios Walthamstow Studios was a British film studio located in Walthamstow, London which operated between 1914 and 1930. Two earlier studios had existed in Walthamstow. It was the base of Broadwest films for a number of years, which also used Catford Studios at an overflow facility. Later it was owned by British Filmcraft. After the bankrupt the studio's were sold off for non-film use.
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Lime Grove Studios Lime Grove Studios was originally a film studio complex built by the Gaumont Film Company in 1915, but it was later purchased by the BBC who used it for television broadcasts from 1949 to 1991. It was situated in Lime Grove, a residential street in Shepherd's Bush, west London, and when it first opened was described by Gaumont as "the finest studio in Great Britain and the first building ever put up in this country solely for the production of films". Many Gainsborough Pictures films were made here from the early 1930s. Its sister studio was Islington Studios, also used by Gainsborough. Films were often shot partly at Islington and partly at Lime Grove. The complex was demolished in 1993.
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STV Productions STV Productions (previously SMG Productions or Scottish Media Group Productions and originally known as Scottish Television Productions) is the television production arm of the STV Group plc, and incorporates Ginger Productions. Headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland, and with an office in London, England, the company's output includes drama, factual, entertainment and children's programming for broadcast on television stations worldwide. A key programming supplier to the television industry in the United Kingdom, STV Productions' output is aired on all UK terrestrial networks as well as major satellite and cable stations.
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107 Piccadilly 107 Piccadilly is a Grade-II listed building on Lena Street in Manchester, England. Situated near Piccadilly Gardens, it was originally built as a packing warehouse and showroom with offices for cotton manufacturer Sparrow Hardwick & Company.
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Ocean Productions Ocean Productions, Inc. (also known as Ocean Group, Ocean Media or Ocean Studios) is a production company based in Vancouver, British Columbia produces localizations for distribution in Canada and US. Ocean has produced thousands of animation properties distributed partners and clients. Ocean also does domestic animation.
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Shuka (studio) Shuka (株式会社朱夏 , Kabushiki gaisha Shuka ) is a Japanese animation studio founded in 2013 by former staff from Brain's Base.
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20th Century Fox Animation Twentieth Century Fox Animation (stylized as 20th Century Fox Animation) is the animation division of the film studio 20th Century Fox, tasked for production feature-length animated film.
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Granada plc Granada plc (previously called Granada Ltd, Granada Group plc, and Granada Media plc) was a British conglomerate best known as the former parent of the Manchester-based Granada Television.
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Pixar Canada Pixar Canada was a wholly owned subsidiary of Pixar Animation Studios. It was located in Vancouver, British Columbia. The studio was tasked to produce short films based on Pixar's feature film characters.
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Huhu Studios Huhu Studios is an animation studio based in Warkworth, New Zealand and with studios in Beijing and Taipei. The studio is known for producing Christian-themed animated productions.
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Manchester Enterprise Centre Manchester Enterprise Centre, previously Manchester Science Enterprise Centre, (MSEC) is an organisation at the University of Manchester that focuses on stimulating enterprise and entrepreneurship.
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Lockheed Martin UK Lockheed Martin UK Limited (LMUK) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, headquartered in London. The company was created on 1 July 1999, combining all of Lockheed Martin's UK operations into one company.
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ITV Granada ITV Granada (formerly Granada Television; informally Granada) is the Channel 3 regional service for North West England. The licence for the region has been held by ITV Broadcasting Limited since November 2008. It is the largest independent television-franchise producing company in the UK, accounting for 25% of the total broadcasting output of the ITV network. It had been held by Granada Television, which was founded by Sidney Bernstein and based at Granada Studios on Quay Street in Manchester since its inception. This was the only surviving company of the original four Independent Television Authority franchisees from 1954; Granada Media Group (parent company of Granada Television) merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc in 2004. It covers Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, northwestern Derbyshire, part of Cumbria and North Yorkshire. On 15 July 2009, the Isle of Man was transferred to ITV Granada from ITV Border (even though the Isle of Man is a British Crown Dependency and is not part of the United Kingdom).
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Apadmi Ltd Apadmi is a mobile application development company based in Manchester. They develop applications for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry devices as well as web design, and strategy. Apadmi have produced apps for UK companies and organisations such as the British Museum, BBC iPlayer and The Guardian. As of 2014, the company had 71 employees.
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Artic Computing Artic Computing was a software development company based in Brandesburton, England from 1980 to 1986. The company's first games were for the Sinclair ZX81 home computer, but they expanded and were also responsible for various ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron and Amstrad CPC computer games. The company was set up by Richard Turner and Chris Thornton. Charles Cecil, who later founded Revolution Software, joined the company shortly after it was founded, writing Adventures B through D. Developer Jon Ritman produced a number of ZX81 and Spectrum games for Artic before moving to Ocean Software.
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Stoo Cambridge Stuart "Stoo" Cambridge (born 6 September 1969 in Barking, Greater London, UK) is a British computer game designer and artist, and former member of British software developer Sensible Software.