Universal Animation Studios

Universal Animation Studios logo (2006-present)

Universal Animation Studios (formerly known as Universal Cartoon Studios), is an American animation studio which is a division of Universal Studios.

It is best-known for producing sequels to Universal-released feature films, such as The Land Before Time, An American Tail, Balto, as well as other films and television series, using traditional and computer animation techniques.

The actual animation production is done overseas, most notably by either Wang Film Productions or Rough Draft Studios, with pre-production and post-production is United States-based.

UAS also manages its parent company's rights to various other animation works that were produced at other studios but copyrighted and/or distributed by NBC or Universal.

Filmography

Universal Cartoon Studios

Direct to Video/DVD Feature Films

Title	Release Date
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure	December 23, 1994
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving	December 15, 1995
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists	December 10, 1996
The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island	December 9, 1997
Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus	January 6, 1998
The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock	December 1, 1998
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein	September 28, 1999
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island	February 15, 2000
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster	July 25, 2000
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman	August 29, 2000
The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire	December 5, 2000
The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze	December 4, 2001
Balto II: Wolf Quest	February 19, 2002
The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water	December 10, 2002
Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure	March 18, 2003
The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration	December 2, 2003
Van Helsing: The London Assignment	May 11, 2004
The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses	January 11, 2005
Balto III: Wings of Change	February 1, 2005
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit	March 21, 2006

Universal Animation Studios

Theatrical Feature Films

#	Title	Release date	Budget	Gross	RT	IMDb
1	Curious George	2006-02-10	$50,000,000	$69,834,815	69%
2	The Tale of Despereaux	2008-12-19	$60,000,000	$86,947,448	55%
3	Despicable Me	2010-07-09	$69,000,000	$544,513,985	81%

Direct-to-DVD/VHS feature films

#	Title	Release date	Budget	Gross	RT	IMDb
1	The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers	2007-02-27
2	The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends	2007-11-27
3	Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!	2010-03-02

TV series

Title	Original run	Network	Notes
Back to the Future: The Animated Series	1991–1992	CBS	with Amblin Entertainment, BIG Pictures, Zaloom/Mayfield Productions
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories	1992–1993	Showtime
Fievel's American Tails	1992	CBS	with Amblin Entertainment/Nelvana
Exosquad	1993–1994	USA Network
Problem Child	1993–1994	USA Network	with D'Ocon Films Productions (Season 1) / Lacewood Productions (Season 2)
Monster Force	1994	USA Network	with Lacewood Productions
Beethoven	1994–1995	Teletoon	with Northern Lights Entertainment
Earthworm Jim	1995–1996	Kids WB!	with Shiny Entertainment and Flextech Television Limited
Savage Dragon	1995–1996
The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper	1996–1998	Fox Kids	with Amblin Entertainment/The Harvey Entertainment Company, Saban Entertainment
Wing Commander Academy	1996	USA Network
The New Woody Woodpecker Show	1999–2002	Teletoon Retro
The Mummy: The Animated Series	2001–2003	Kids WB!
Curious George	2006–present	PBS	with Imagine Entertainment and WGBH
The Land Before Time	2007–present	Cartoon Network	with Amblin Entertainment

Short films

• Fractured Fairy Tales: The Phox, the Box, & the Lox (1999)

TV specials

• A Wish for Wings That Work (1991)
• Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas (2009)

Inherited material

UAS manages NBCUniversal's rights to the Hanna-Barbera production Gravedale High, which was originally produced by H-B in association with NBC. They also purchased North American rights to The Adventures of Tintin.

See also

• Illumination Entertainment
• Walter Lantz Productions

External links

• Universal Cartoon Studios at Internet Movie Database

• Universal Animation Studios at the Internet Movie Database