Colossal Pictures
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| Industry | Media |
|---|---|
| Fate | Absorbed into Wildbrain |
| Successor(s) | Wildbrain |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Defunct | 1999 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Key people | Drew Takahashi Gary Gutierrez Japhet Asher |
| Products | animation stop-motion computer graphics special effects interactive live action |
| Subsidiaries | BIG Pictures (1991-1994) Little Fluffy Clouds (1996-) Protozoa (1994-2001) Colossal East (1988-1990) |
Colossal Pictures (styled (Colossal) Pictures) was an award-winning[1] entertainment company that developed and produced television programming, network branding, and film titles.
Founded in 1976, Colossal Pictures' clients included Coca-Cola, Nickelodeon, Starbucks Coffee, Disney, Discovery Channel, Denny's, Americast, Samsung, Microsoft, MTV, Cartoon Network, Broderbund, Nike, Sega, AT&T, Honda, Hershey's, Listerine, Hasbro Interactive, Time Warner, Paramount, Pizza Hut, Apple, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Turner Entertainment and just about every major network cable and television company.
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[edit] Work
[edit] Shorts, shows and opening titles
- Magic Journeys (animation) (1982)
- Cat & Mouse At (the) Home (short film) (1983)
- Top Gun intro (1986)
- Saturday Night Live (main title) (1990)
- Liquid Television (1991–1994)
- Channel Zero' (short film) (1991)
- Adventures in Wonderland (main title) (1991)
- The Moxy Show (1993–1997)
- Mickey's Fun Songs (main titles) (1994)
- The Flying Dutchman (short film) (1994)
- Living Books: Ruff's Bone (1995)
- Chocolate (short film) (1996)
- Frankenguy and his Professor (interstitial for Playhouse Disney, 1997)
- Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress (logo animation) (1997)
- Dubden (mixtape) (1997)
- Showtime Championship Boxing (main title) (1998)
- The Mix-ups (interstitial for Disney Channel, 1998)
- Zoog Disney (first season only; second season produced by Wildbrain) (1998–1999)
[edit] Commercials and branding
- MTV "Network ID's" (1981–1990)
- Levi's "It Gets Strange" (1984)
- Disney Channel "Network ID's" (1983–1990)
- MTV "Plugged In" (1984)
- Nickelodeon "Network ID's" (1985–1987)
- Listerine Boxer (produced by Pixar) (1990)
- Life Savers Holes (produced by Pixar) (1990)
- Game Boy Eyeballs (produced by Pixar) (1990)
- American Express "Apartment" (1991)
- Nick at Nite "Logos on Sticks" (1991)
- Nintendo "Obey Wario" (1992)
- Nike "Air Slam" (1992)
- TNT "The Big Picture" (1992)
- Honda "Pump" (1992)
- Hershey's "Kisses" (1992–1995)
- NYNEX "Marbles" (1992)
- Pizza Hut "The Pizza Head Show" (1992–1996)
- Sega "Flying TV" (1992)
- TV5 "Bumpers" (produced by Lambie-Nairn) (1992)
- Honda "Robot Bee" (1993)
- MTV "All Smoked Out" (1993)
- Nike "Just Do It!" (1993)
- Hardee's "Talk Show" (1993)
- Nintendo "You're Getting Greedy" (1994)
- Nickelodeon "Back to the Roots" (1994)
- Channel V "No Hands" (1994)
- Nickelodeon "How It Gets There" (1995)
- Sega "Teenage Blowfly" (1995)
- Coca-Cola "Sun" (1995)
- Perrier "Shadows" (1995)
- Shuttle by United "Doggy" (1996)
- Coca-Cola "Contraction/Pictogram" (1996)
- Starbucks Coffee "Blue Note" (1996)
- Turner Classic Movies "Sunny Side" (1996)
- Nickelodeon "Rhino!" (1996)
- Locomotion "Network ID's" (1997)
- Discovery Kids "The Wig" (1997)
- Coca-Cola "Happy Fizz" (1997)
- Nickelodeon "Bumpers" (1998)
- Alpha-Bits "Scream" (1999)
[edit] References
- ^ www.awn.com/mag/issue2.2/articles/cohencolossal2.2.html
