Animation Production/Trivia

## Trivia

* Animation was provided by DNEG Animation. Animation for the film was done remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film's character designs were inspired by *Ron's Gone Wrong,* and the snow design was inspired by *The Boss Baby: Family Business*.
* The series' art style is the same as *Trolls: The Beat Goes On!* with a different animation style and improvements.
* The animation was provided by Animal Logic in Sydney and Vancouver, which also provided animation for the *Lego Movie* series and *DC League of Super-Pets*.
* Despite Viacom acquiring the rights to Garfield, the film was still in production.
* Mikros Image in Montreal, who animated the first film, would return to handle the animation.
* The series was originally animated by C.O.R.E. in Toronto, but animation production moved to Bardel Entertainment in Vancouver after C.O.R.E closed down.
* The film's animation was provided by Mikros Animation in Montreal and Paris and Sony Pictures Imageworks in Vancouver.
* While the animation was provided by DWA Glendale, and was made in Paris and Vancouver, Jellyfish Pictures, who previously worked for DreamWorks on *How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming*, *Spirit Untamed*, *The Boss Baby: Family Business* and *The Bad Guys*, handled the additional asset production services using proprietary softwares like Premo and Moonray. Additional animation was provided by Assemblage Entertainment and 88 Pictures.
* While most of the animation for the film was provided by DWA Glendale and was made in Paris and Vancouver alongside both Cinesite's Montreal and London facilities and Jellyfish Pictures was worked on *Spirit Untamed*, *The Boss Baby: Family Business*, *The Bad Guys*, *Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken*, *Trolls Band Together* and *Kung Fu Panda 4* using proprietary softwares like Premo and Moonray, along with an assembly system named PipeX and a tool called Doodle - created for the 2D effects and for allowing the animators to move the lines around the character rigs. While the 2D animation was provided by Company 3 Animation, Tonic DNA, Snipple Animation Studios, Hornet Inc., Titmouse, Inc., Folimage Studio, Slap Happy Cartoons, Big Jump Entertainment, Yowza! Animation, Digital eMation, Mercury Filmworks, Atomic Cartoons, Giant Ant, Lighthouse Studios, Brilliant Pictures, Nørlum, Toon City Animation, Inspidea, Bardel Entertainment, The Sergio Pablos Animation Studios, Duncan Studio, Passion Pictures, Madhouse, Copa Studio, Mighty Animation, The Answer Studio, Studio Mir, Boulder Media, Rough Draft Studios, Elliott Animation, Renegade Animation, Cartoon Saloon and Ludo Studio, and visual effects were also provided by FuseFX.
* While the animation was provided by DWA Glendale, and was made in Vancouver, along with Illumination Studios Paris, Jellyfish Pictures and 88 Pictures handled the additional animation.
* The animation was provided by Mikros Animation in Montreal and Paris and DNEG Animation in London.
* Mikros Animation, who worked with DreamWorks Animation on *Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie*, will be providing the animation for the film from Paris and Bangalore.
* The film was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks in Montreal and Vancouver and DNEG Animation in London.
* The film was animated by both Reel FX's facilities in Montreal and Cinesite's facilities in Vancouver.
* Animation services were provided by Tonic DNA, Lighthouse Studios, Bento Box Entertainment, Golden Wolf, Yeson Entertainment, Brilliant Pictures, Synergy Animation, Mighty Animation, Dave Enterprises, and Mercury Filmworks.