List of computer-animated films

A computer-animated film commonly refers to feature films that have been computer-animated to appear three dimensional on a movie screen. While traditional 2D animated films are now done primarily on computers, the technique to render realistic 3D computer graphics (CG), or 3D Computer-generated imagery (CGI), is unique to using computers to create movies.

This is a list of movies that are entirely computer-animated, and rendered in 3D. These are sometimes referred to as CG films.

Computer-animated films typically have two production companies associated with them: an animation studio and a distribution company. For example, Pixar designs and animates their features and Walt Disney Pictures distributes them.

Alphabetical

The following is a list of theatrically-released computer-animated features in alphabetical order:

• The Ant Bully — Warner Bros., Legendary Pictures, Playtone and DNA Productions
• Antz — DreamWorks Animation
• Ard Al-Taff — ? [1]
• Barnyard — Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, and DNA Productions
• The Bee Julia and Mrs. Vita, L'Apetta Giulia e la signora Vita — ?
• A Bug's Life — Disney and Pixar
• Cars — Disney and Pixar
• Chicken Little — Walt Disney Feature Animation
• Condor Crux, the Legend, Cóndor Crux, la leyenda — The Patagonik Group
• Delgo — Fathom Studios
• Dragons: Destiny of Fire, Dragones: destino de fuego — AlpaMayo Ent.
• An Egg Film, Una Película de huevos — ?
• Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children — Square-Enix
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within — Square Pictures
• Finding Nemo — Disney and Pixar
• Flushed Away — DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Animations
• Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meltdown — 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios
• Happy Feet — Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Animal Logic
• Hoodwinked and Hood vs. Evil — Kanbar and Weinstein Company
• The Incredibles — Disney and Pixar
• Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius — Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, and DNA Productions
• Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie — Big Idea Productions and FHE Pictures
• Khan Kluay — Kantana Animation
• The Living Forest — Dygra Films
• Madagascar — DreamWorks Animation
• Midsummer Dream — Dygra Films
• Monsters, Inc. — Disney and Pixar
• Monster House — Columbia Pictures
• Open Season — Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation
• Pirates in the Pacific, Piratas en el Callao aka. Piratas en el Pacifico — AlpaMayo Ent.
• The Polar Express — Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures Imageworks
• Ratatouille — Disney and Pixar
• Robots — 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios
• Shark Tale — DreamWorks Animation
• Shrek and Shrek 2 — DreamWorks Animation
• The Spirit of the Forest — Dygra Films
• Surf's Up — Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation
• Toy Story and Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 — Disney and Pixar
• The Ugly Duckling and Me!
• The Wild — Disney and C.O.R.E.

Alphabetical by production and/or animation studio

20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios

Blue Sky Studios is owned wholly by 20th Century Fox since 1997.

• Horton Hears A Who! (2008)
• Ice Age (2002) and Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
• Robots (2005)

AlpaMayo Ent.

Creator of the first Peruvian animated feature film in 2005.

• Pirates in the Pacific, Piratas en el Callao, Piratas en el Pacifico outside of Peru (2005)
• Dragons: Destiny of Fire, Dragones: destino de fuego (2006)

Big Idea Productions, Inc.

Big Idea Productions is an animation company that first released a series of DVD shorts before their feature releases.

• Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002)
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (2008)

C.O.R.E. Feature Animation

C.O.R.E. is a special effects house that has branched into feature-length animation.

• The Wild (2006)

DNA Productions

DNA Productions is a 2D and 3D animation company with various distributors.

• The Ant Bully (2006)
• Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)

Digital Rim

• Ark (2004)

DreamWorks

The 3D division of DreamWorks Animation was formed when it bought part of Pacific Data Images (PDI). PDI was completely bought out by 2004, and its films are currently distributed by parent Paramount Pictures. PDI, along with Pixar, was an industry pioneer in computer-animated films.

• Antz (1998)
• Bee Movie (2007)
• A Car's Film (2007)
• Flushed Away (2006)
• Kung Fu Panda (2008)
• Madagascar (2005) and Madagascar 2 (2008)
• Over the Hedge (2006)
• Punk Farm (2009)
• Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer (TBA)
• Shark Tale (2004)
• Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), and Shrek the Third (2007)

Dygra Films

Dygra Films is a Spanish company which specializes in 3D films. Created Europe's first 3D-animated feature film.

• The Living Forest, El Bosque animado (2001)
• Midsummer Dream, El Sueño de una noche de San Juan (2005)
• The Spirit of the Forest, Espíritu del bosque (2007)
• Holy Night (2007)
• The Golden Donkey, El Asno de Oro (2008)
• In Search of Oniria, En Busca de Oniria (2009)

Fathom Studios

Fathom Studios is an independent Atlanta-based company that was created in 1994 and has been producing Delgo since 1998.

• Delgo (2007)

Imagi Animation Studios

• Cat Tale (2008)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2007)

Kantana Animation

• Khan Kluay (2006)

Lions Gate Films and Threshold Entertainment

• Foodfight! (2007)

Manos Digitales Animation Studio

• Plumíferos (2007)

Paramount Pictures and/or Nickelodeon Movies

• Barnyard (2006)
• Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
• The Smurfs (2008)

Pixar Animation Studios

Producing the first computer-animated film, Pixar's films are always considered successful in ticket sales and unique storytelling. They have all been distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

• A Bug's Life (1998)
• Cars (2006)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• The Incredibles (2004)
• Monsters, Inc. (2001)
• Ratatouille (2007)
• Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999), and Toy Story 3 (TBA)
• WALL• E (2008)

Sony Pictures Animation/Imageworks

Beginning life as Sony Pictures Imageworks, the visual effects division of Sony Pictures, all CG films are now done by Sony Pictures Animation.

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2008)
• Hotel Transylvania (2009)
• Monster House (2006)
• Open Season (2006)
• The Polar Express (2004)
• Surf's Up (2007)

Square

Square Enix, a producer of video games, owns the rights to the video game franchise Final Fantasy. Square Pictures was an animation studio in Hawaii created mostly for The Spirits Within. But the main studio, Square Enix, created Advent Children as a direct-to-video release.

• Final Fantasy: Advent Children (video) (2005)
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

Vanguard Animation

Vanguard Animation is a Canadian animation studio based in Burnaby, BC outside Vancouver.

• Citizen Siege (TBA)
• Happily N'Ever After (2007)
• Space Chimps (2007)
• Valiant (2005)

Walt Disney Pictures

Besides distributing Pixar films, Walt Disney Pictures also creates its own computer animated films through its previously-2D division Walt Disney Feature Animation..

• American Dog (2008)
• Chicken Little (2005)
• Meet the Robinsons (2007)
• Rapunzel (2009)

Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures & Animal Logic

Animal Logic, also a visual effects studio, sent some rendering and animation work to other visual effects studios for Happy Feet, which is a first for CG films.

• Happy Feet (2006)

Weinstein Company

The Weinstein Company is an independent producing and investing studio.

• Doogal / The Magic Roundabout (2006)
• Hoodwinked (2005) and Hood vs. Evil (2007)

Warner Bros. & Legendary Pictures

• The Ant Bully (2006)
• Where the Wild Things Are (2008)

Xilam Films

• Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)

Chronological by release date

United States

Dates listed are the first public non-festival release in the United States.

1995 Toy Story — November 22 1995 1998 Antz — October 2 1998 A Bug's Life — November 14 1998 1999 Toy Story 2 — November 18 1999 2001 Shrek — May 16 2001 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within — 11 July 2001 Monsters, Inc. — 2 November 2001 Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius — December 21 2001 2002 Ice Age — 15 March 2002 Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie — October 4, 2002 2003 Finding Nemo — 30 May 2003 2004 Shrek 2 — 19 May 2004 Shark Tale — October 1 2004 The Incredibles — November 5 2004 The Polar Express — 12 November 2004 2005 Doogal — 24 February 2005 Robots — 11 March 2005 Madagascar — 27 May 2005 Valiant — 19 August 2005 Chicken Little — 4 November 2005 2006 Hoodwinked — 13 January2006 Ice Age: The Meltdown — 31 March2006 The Wild — 14 April 2006 Over the Hedge — 19 May 2006 Cars — 9 June 2006 Monster House — July 21, 2006 The Ant Bully — July 28, 2006 Barnyard — August 4, 2006 Everyone's Hero — September 15, 2006 Open Season — September 292006 Flushed Away — November 3, 2006 Happy Feet — November 17, 2006

2007 Happily N'Ever After — January 5,2007 A Car's Film — April 13,2007 Meet the Robinsons — March 30 2007 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — March 30, 2007 Shrek the Third — May 18 2007 Surf's Up — June 8 2007 Ratatouille — June 29 2007 Neanderthals — October 2007 Bee Movie — November 2 2007 Foodfight! — 16 November 2007 Delgo 2008 WALL• E 9 Kung Fu Panda Where the Wild Things Are American Dog — Summer Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Horton Hears A Who! Madagascar 2 — November 8 2008 The Smurfs — November 2008 Hood vs. Evil Space Chimps 2009 Punk Farm Rapunzel 20?? Toy Story 3 Shrek 4 Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer Hotel Transylvania untitled Warcraft film [2] Citizen Siege

Non-United States

This is a listing of all computer-animated films which did not originate in the United States. The films from the United Kingdom and France were the only ones to receive wide releases in the US.

• 2000
  • Condor Crux, the Legend, Cóndor Crux, la leyenda — January 6 (Spain/Argentina)
  • A.Li.Ce — August 1 (Japan)

• 2001
  • The Living Forest, El Bosque animado — August 3 (Spain)

• 2003
  • The Bee Julia and Mrs. Vita, L'Apetta Giulia e la signora Vita — September 19 (Italy)

• 2004
  • Terkel in Trouble — April 2 (Denmark)
  • Pinocchio 3000 (Canadian) — July 9 (Spain)

• 2005
  • The Magic Roundabout/Doogal — February 11 (UK)
  • Pirates in the Pacific, Piratas en el Callao aka. Piratas en el Pacifico — February 24 (Peru)
  • Midsummer Dream, El Sueño de una noche de San Juan — July 1 (Spain)
  • Thru the Moebius Strip — ??? (China/USA)
  • Valiant March 25 (UK)

• 2006
  • Free Jimmy — March 17 (Norway)
  • An Egg Film, Una Película de huevos — April 21 (Mexico)
  • Khan Kluay — May 18 (Thailand)
  • Dragons: Destiny of Fire, Dragones: destino de fuego — July 27 (Peru)
  • The Emperor's Secret — September 8 (Finland)
  • The Ugly Duckling and Me! — September 10 (France/Germany/Ireland/UK/Denmark)
  • Flushed Away — November 3 (UK/USA)
  • Arthur and the Invisibles — December 13 (France)

• 2007
  • Ard Al-Taff — January 19 (Lebanon) [3]
  • Krakatuk, Кракатук — August 23 (Russia)[4]
  • Fly Me to the Moon (Belgium)
  • The Spirit of the Forest, Espíritu del bosque (Spain)
  • Holy Night (Spain)
  • Plumíferos (Argentina)
  • Juan Tamad Dec 2007-MMFF entry(Philippines)

• 2008
  • The Golden Donkey, El Asno de Oro (Spain)

• 2009
  • In Search of Oniria, En Busca de Oniria (Spain)

See also

• Timeline of CGI in film and television
• List of children's films
• CGI animal adventure movies