Who owns the company that produced a CGI animated Christmas special in 1999 and has footage for its company logo taken from the short film "A Study in Wet?"
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Olive, the Other Reindeer Olive, the Other Reindeer is a 1999 CGI animated Christmas television special written by Steve Young, and directed by Oscar Moore. The feature was produced by Matt Groening's The Curiosity Company (best known for "Futurama"), and animated by DNA Productions. It first aired on December 17, 1999 on Fox, produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Flower Films. The special combines paperlike character art in 3-D environments. Sometimes, traditional animation is used.
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The Curiosity Company The Curiosity Company, Inc. is an American production company behind hit series "Futurama" and the 1999 television film "Olive, the Other Reindeer". The company logo depicts the letter "C" being formed by a surfboard reflection against various ocean waves, alongside distorted water sounds. The footage and sounds are taken from "A Study in Wet", a short film made by Matt's father, Homer.
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Colossal Pictures Colossal Pictures (styled as (Colossal) Pictures or (C)P) was an entertainment company that developed and produced television programming, advertising, network branding, and visual effects. Colossal's work has won every major industry award, from the Clio, Emmy and Grammy to the Cannes Gold Lion and Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Top Honor.
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The Animation Picture Company The Animation Picture Company is an American animation studio in Sherman Oaks, California. It was founded in late 2006 by Dan Chuba, John Davis, Mark A.Z. Dippé, Brain Manis, and Ash Shah.
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Clive A. Smith Clive A. Smith (often credited as Clive Smith) is a British expatriate director and animator who, with Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert, founded Canadian animation studio Nelvana in 1971. Smith worked on some of his studio's first TV specials, including "A Cosmic Christmas" (1977), which was broadcast on CBC Television in Canada and syndicated in the United States proving to be Nelvana's breakthrough production. He also helmed the studio's next special, "The Devil and Daniel Mouse", in 1978. He worked as director of Nelvana's first feature film, 1983's "Rock and Rule", and its 1997 animated version of the Pippi Longstocking saga. He also directed "A Wookie's Christmas" (also known as "The Faithful Wookie") for George Lucas and "Family Dog" for Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg. Smith retired from Nelvana in 2001, the year after he and his co-founders sold the studio to Corus Entertainment.
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BASE Productions BASE Productions is a production company founded in 1992 by John Brenkus and Mickey Stern. As a producer of reality, documentary, and unscripted infotainment programming, BASE Productions uses a trademark motion-capture and CGI technology. The company has produced programming for a variety of channels, such as A&E, Animal Planet, the Discovery Channel networks, Fox Sports Net, G4, ESPN, HBO, MTV, National Geographic Channel and Spike TV. BASE Productions is located in Los Angeles and Washington DC.
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Footage of the World Footage of the World is a Stock Video Footage company that houses High Definition, Standard Definition and Low Resolution video content. Footage of the World was founded in 2007 by Myles Lank, a videographer and website designer based in Hermosa Beach, California. The company's and industry's growth is based on the increased reliance on stock video to provide for broadcast and internal video purposes.
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Frozen Television Frozen Television was a television production company specializing in documentaries and entertainment programming. Frozen Television was founded by Burt Kearns and Brett Hudson and was affiliated with the motion picture production company, Frozen Pictures.
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Content &amp; Company Content & Company, also known as Content & Co., is a Los Angeles-based brand studio. Founded by Stuart McLean in 2008, the company creates and distributes diverse branded content, including webisodes, micro series, short and long format series, scripted and reality formats, such as the 2012 production with Subway for a show called "4 to 9ers," a series of six ten-minute long episodes featured on Hulu, YouTube and several other websites. The company has won various Cynopsis Digital Model D awards as well as Advertising Age's Small Agency Integrated Campaign of the Year in 2014. Content & Company has received several Effie awards for shows such as “4 to 9ers” and Schick Hydro’s “Clean Break”.
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Spy Pictures Spy Pictures was established in 1999 as a London based production company making short films, commercials, music promos and title sequences, mainly animated. The company is owned and run by the founding directors Stephen Cavalier and Patrick Beirne, who before Spy Pictures each had over ten years experience in the animation, film and video game industries.
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Snowmasters Snowmasters Inc., which is now known as GLOBAL SPECIAL EFFECTS, is a special effects company headquartered in Lexington, Alabama. The firm, founded in 1992 by former magician Francisco Guerra, specializes in artificial snow, cryo, smoke, bubble and fog machines. The company's products have been used in music videos such as "Back to December" by Taylor Swift and "Mistletoe" by Justin Bieber, film productions such as Harry Potter and "Lucky", television shows such as "Fear Factor", and at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
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Movieclips Movieclips is a company located in Venice, California that offers streaming video of movie clips and trailers from such Hollywood film companies as Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Company (newer titles), 20th Century Fox (some titles), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. (including content from subsidiaries New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment) , Sony Pictures Entertainment (including content from subsidiaries Millennium Films, Destination Films, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Sony Pictures Classics, and Triumph Pictures) and other studios such as Lionsgate and DreamWorks. In 2014, Movieclips was acquired by Fandango/Comcast, which is owned by NBCUniversal.
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Rainmaker Entertainment Rainmaker Studios (formerly Rainmaker Entertainment, and before that, Mainframe Entertainment Inc.) is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They are best known for producing the world's first ever CGI animated series, "ReBoot", the Transformers spin-offs, "" and "", and for producing the majority of the entries in the Barbie film series for Mattel. Rainmaker has released two feature films - "Escape from Planet Earth" and "Ratchet & Clank" (based on the Playstation franchise of the same name).
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Perennial Pictures Film Corporation Perennial Pictures Film Corporation is an independent American animated cartoon studio founded by G. Brian (Jerry) Reynolds and Russ Harris in 1979. Located in Indianapolis, Indiana, the studio made its initial entry into the marketplace producing local and regional animated television commercials. In 1982, Michael N. Ruggiero joined the studio as the third partner, and by 1984, the studio had attained its original goal and released its first animated television special, “A Merry Mirthworm Christmas,” to the Showtime Cable Network.
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Augenblick Studios Augenblick Studios is an independent animation studio founded in 1999 by Aaron Augenblick, and located in Brooklyn, New York City. The company has created a wide array of animated shorts for television, film, and the Internet. Their clients include Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Adult Swim, the TED conference, PBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon. The studio is responsible for much of the animated content on MTV2's "Wonder Showzen".
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Softgarage Softgarage (ソフトガレージ , Sofutogarēji ) is a Japanese company that produces anime, games, character goods, music, and books. "Softgarage" was the company that produced the anime. Though "Softgarage" primarily focuses on the production of original video animation (OVA), it has also worked on anime television series and anime film.
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Jetlag Productions Jetlag Productions was an American-Japanese animation studio that, just like the similar studio Golden Films, has created a number of animated films based on different, popular children's stories, while at the same time creating a few original productions. Produced mainly for the American market, the films were animated in Japan by KKC&D Asia among South Korean companies and were later released directly to VHS through the GoodTimes Home Video distribution company. Years later, with the introduction of DVD, a newer department of the same company, GoodTimes Home Entertainment, distributed the films in that new format. The films in Jetlag's catalog were dubbed into many different languages and were distributed by international departments of the GoodTimes corporation. Since 2005, the Gaiam company has held the copyrights to Jetlag Productions' animated films, following GoodTimes Entertainment's filing for bankruptcy.
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List of Encyclopædia Britannica Films titles Encyclopædia Britannica Films was an educational film production company in the 20th century owned by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. See also Encyclopædia Britannica Films and the animated cartoon television series "Britannica's Tales Around the World".
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Digital Productions Digital Productions was a computer animation company in Los Angeles, California, that produced advertisements and special effects for films in the 1980s.
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WET (company) WET, also known as WET Design, is a water feature design firm based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1983 by former Disney Imagineers Mark Fuller, Melanie Simon, and Alan Robinson, the company has designed over two hundred fountains and water features using water, fire, ice, fog, and lights. It is known for creating The Dubai Fountain, the world's largest performing fountain, along with the 8-acre (3.2 ha) Fountains of Bellagio It has designed features in over 20 countries around the world, in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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Slinky Pictures Slinky Pictures was a London based film and television production company. The company was created in 2000 by Maria Manton and Chris Shepherd and closed on its tenth anniversary in 2010. It animation and hybrid output included commercials, short films, pop promos and television shows. Directors include: Chris Shepherd, Lucy Izzard, Suzanne Deakin, Emily Skinner, Leigh Hodgkinson, Andy Ward, Rebecca Manley, Laura Heit and Joe King.
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John Lemmon Films John Lemmon Films is a traditional character animation studio based in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, and is listed among five “prominent animation houses”. The company was founded in 1984 by John Lemmon and Mike Rosinski. Initially the animation studio worked exclusively in clay animation, but has since diversified into stop-motion, 2D animation and Flash animation, as well as web game design. The company has produced clay animated TV commercials for clients including: Disney, Cartoon Network and Dairy Queen. The studio has created clay-animated versions of well-known products, including the Coleman lantern, and has produced clay animated spots for Tandy Corporation’s chain of stores called McDuff Electronics and for Cedar Point.