Studio 4 Animation

***Studio 4 Animation*** (previously ***Studio 4 Films***), was an obscure American/Australian animation studio that only specialized in producing feature films, created in 1997 by the late Michael Brannon which they only produced six feature films, which fell apart before the release of their final film produced was *Violetward* in 2011, it was eventually acquired by Riverbank Films long before the films release.

## History

In 1996, Brannon, along with his friends, Johnny, Drake and Wyatt band together at his own residence, with the leader noting the success of Toy Story, caused him to travel to Victoria to start his company, titled Studio 4 Animation, announcing projects in development with short budgets, including *The Mario Movie* and *The Broadways*.

In 2005, Circle 7 Animation was in talks with a studio on making a Incredibles spin-off following the success of the actual movie with founder Michael Eisner, the latter departing production in 2005.

In May 2007, it was reported that the studio would utilise 3D technology starting with *Pingu* with RealD3D and IMAX.

During production of *Horton Hears a II!* in March 2010, employee Daniel Price announced his resignation from the studio to create a new company for reasons unknown, that was until the last paragraph.

In March 2011, CEO Michael Brannon died from a reinvented brain tumor, which lead to the company ceasing operations, with most of the assets acquired by Riverbank Films, led by Daniel Price.

According to the Studio 4 History Database on 2014, it was revealed Brannon grew more greedy and man-childish in his later years, it was explained that he saw fetish art on Rule 34 and making money off *Pingu*, which as a result corrupted him, and grew more mean-spirited to his employees, albeit having empathy for males, others also uncovered that he would plan world domination if *Violetward* was a success and would start to produce projects on higher budgets, minus *Memorabilia*, having dreams of dethroning Disney.

## Logo

In *The Mario Movie*, a cyan light travels through the old company name, revealing it.

From *The Broadways*, it shows a simple child design thinking about something to write, before getting the idea and drawing the studio’s own logo.

Only in *Pingu* and *Violetward*, varied characters are shown to do different acts and turn the studio logo, but they miss the "4" in the title, and "Animation" fades in after they form into a four to turn them into a cyan "4" text, these concepts would later be re-used for Digiart Production's logos.

In *Horton Hears a II!*, A recreation of *The Broadways* variant except he draws in the entire paper instead and after his arm swings away, the company logo appears with glitch effects layered in the visuals.

## Short films

 *Advanced Gymnastics* | September 2, 2011

## Cancelled films

 *The Broadways: Showdown in Shanghai* | April 3, 2015

## Commercial

 *What Are You Really Burning?* | December 10, 1998-June 8, 2006

## Undated film

 *Untitled Flipper and Lopaka film adaptation* | Co-production with Flying Bark Productions, originally planned in 2010 but got cancelled due to a feared lawsuit and the pioneer's death.

## Trivia

* The Studio's founder/CEO later grew bossy since 2008, akin to Phil Lord and childish similar to Chris Chan, he sexually harassed two female employees, but he is still kind to his male employees, not until production of his final work, he is also described as a disgrace to CGI animation, he has also been known to have lusted on fictional characters.
* Pingu was the studio's only critically acclaimed film.