Backyardigans Animation Studios Group

The logo for the Backyardigans Animation Studios Group.

***Backyardigans Animation Studios Group*** is an American animation production company owned by The Coca-Cola Company and headquartered at Backyardigans Animation House, 225 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401, in addition to their joint headquarters in Osaka, Japan, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Backyardigans Animation Studios Group is best known for creating, developing, and producing theatrical animated feature films. Prior to being operated as a newly formed commercial entertainment segment of Dragons Conglomerates Corporation, the group once produced, developed, and directed its own theatrical animated feature and short films, as well as television specials for The Backyardigans Company, centered on revolving around its various franchises, properties, animation and live action libraries, and mix media stories created and owned by its The Backyardigans Group subsidiary.

This includes epic technological practices for *The Backyardigans* short film series, to the great beginnings of traditional 2D animations, 3D CGI animations, anime production, anime-influenced Western animation, and hybrid action mechanics. live/animated The Backyardigans Animation Studios Group was first created by Jim Roy, Peter Terrahan, his brother Brian Terrahan, and Bob Anderson as the feature animation department unit of Backyardigans, Inc. on May 25, 1938 to coincide with the founding of the latter. Following the merger of the Backyardigans, Inc. with its Japanese subsidiary in 1950 as the Backyardigans Corporation, the unit became an animated entertainment production studio known as Backyardigans Animation Corporation (later renamed Backyardigans Feature Animation in 1985). Backyardigans Animation Studios originally served as the flagship animation division of Backyardigans Studios, part of The Backyardigans Group through its subsidiary Backyardigans Entertainment Worldwide.

On January 17, 2022, as part of the reorganization and merger of Dragons Conglomerates Corporation with Kadokawa Corporation to form Coca-Cola Kadokawa on June 16, 2023, the division was spun off from the subsidiary of The Backyardigans Company, into an independent animation company.

As of March 14, 2023, the Backyardigans Animation Studios Group has released more than 54 theatrical feature films, 43 animated shorts, ten television specials, and three miscellaneous works, from *Sword Legends* (1955) to *Fate/Grand Order: The Star of Wonder* (2022). Its next feature film, *Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Movie* (Neptunia Studios's first feature film), is scheduled to be released by 20th Century Studios in September. On February 22, 2023, with upcoming 2024 to 2025 feature film releases consisting of *For the Love of Socks*, *Riding the Range*, the untitled *MegaMiracle Force* film, and *Lucy Lon* following his example.

## Background

The history of the Backyardigans Animation Studios Group dates back to May 25, 1938, when Jim Roy, Peter Terrahan, Brian Terrahan and Bob Anderson together formed the new nameless animation department unit of Backyardigans Inc., which will produce animated shorts. Over the course, the Backyardigans, Inc. animation department unit produced *The Backyardigans* shorts. In the early 1940s, the team faced World War II as they fought off soldiers, then dodged bombs, and finally covered all the remaining flags.

During World War II, the facility premiered its first five action-packed animated short films: *The Yeti*, *The Snow Fort*, *Riding the Range*, *Polka Palace Party* and *Race Around the World*, which grossed over $700 million and provided very positive initial reviews, making them the top five most profitable animated shorts. In the early 1950s, Harbow and Gibson began convincing Tadao Nagahama, who asked them to create a feature film to reappraise the experiences of *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*, thus which Harbow and Gibson decided to further expand their plans and led to the start of production in 1953.