SkyFilms Studios (Kageverse)

SkyFilms Studios is an Australian-American film production studio. It is known for creating animated films, though it has also produced cartoon series and video games. 
== History ==
==== Beginning (1969-1976) ====
In 1967, the SkAzReAb Studio was shut down after three years of operation due to their short films not being much of a success, not providing enough income to the four friends running it. Two years later, Zatosiai was founded by Skye, Azarias, Red and Abara, nicknamed by some fans as "The SARA Quartet", the same group of four animators that previously ran SkAzReAb. While they did produce and release a couple short films during this era, the four founders and the animators working for them mainly focused on The Golden City (renamed to City of Gold during production), which took eight years to make and would be the company's first feature film.
==== Golden Age (1977-1987) ====
==== Death of Zachary Skye and Dark Age (1988-1997) ====
On June 11, 1985, Zachary Skye passed away unexpectedly, an autopsy later revealing his cause of death was related to years of substance abuse. Love Is Power was the final film Skye had seen before his death, as while he did see an early cut of the film where only 60% of the animation was completed (with storyboards/animatics and pencil tests taking the place of the 40% of animation that had not yet been completed) in March 1985, he did not live to see the final product. Love is Power, released 2 months after Skye's death, was dedicated to his memory. Azarias, Red and Abara would rename the company to SkyFilms as a tribute to Skye. 
David Scoll took control, which would lead to the company facing a major decline. Hailey and Honey, released posthumously, would be the final film Skye was involved in, and it would be SkyFilms' last box office success before its decline. Scoll heavily interfered with the production of many of SkyFilms' next films, which lead to most of them being flops. In 1991, Scoll came to the conclusion that the films released after Hailey and Honey had failed because audiences preferred the then-recent musical Disney films such as Oliver and Company, The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast. He ordered all films in production at the time to emulate the Disney Renaissance formula and be reworked into Disneyesque musicals with a Broadway-like score, including films that were not intended to be musicals such as Me and Me and Prince Telamon.
This decision backfired, however, as many of those films still bombed at the box office (with Rise of the Elements being the only film of this era that was remotely successful), and received many negative reviews, being labeled "Disney rip-offs". This also damaged the reputation of SkyFilms, as the general public would lose faith in them and coin mocking nicknames for SkyFilms like "Disney Lite". SkyFilms' first animation studio, SkyeToons, would close down in 1995 after 26 years of operation, its final film being The Trail of Stars. A new animation studio was set up, (W.I.P)
==== Removal of David Scoll and Renaissance (1997-2013) ====
SkyFilms' previous films, starting from City of Silver, had integrated computer animation in its films to CGI animation tests were conducted in 1994, after Toby Azarias received a videocassette of VeggieTales: Where's God When I'm S-Scared? 
The films that would mark the beginning of the SkyFilms renaissance would begin production during the dark ages. The Wonderers, SkyFilms' first film to be completely animated in CGI, began production in 1995. 
In 1996, SkyFilms decided to collaborate with Studio Abara, a Japanese animation studio owned by Aoi Abara, who is a second cousin of Aither Abara. SkyFilms' first collaboration with Studio Abara was creating an English localization of Studio Abara's then-upcoming film, Earthbound: The War Against Giygas (known as Mother 2 in its native Japan) which was near the end of production at the time. The film would then be released 
==== Post-renaissance (2014-2021) ====
==== Second Golden Age (2021-present) ====
== Filmography ==
City of Gold (1977)
About A Boy (1981)
About A Girl (1983)
Lost (1984)
Love is Power (1985)
Hailey and Honey (1987)
The Lion, the Leopard, and the She-Wolf (1989)
City of Silver (1990)
Zeineb and the Leopard (1991)
Rise of the Elements (1991)
Me and Me (1993)
Prince Telamon (1994)
The Trail of Stars (1995)
The Kana Family (1995)
(W.I.P)
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