20th Century Animation

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## 20th Century Animation

### Formerly called

20th Century Fox Cartoon Studios (1972-1987)
20th Century Fox Feature Animation (1987-2007)
20th Century Fox Animation (2007-2020)

### Industry

Film
Television

### Predecessor

20th Century Fox Classics Animation
Terrytoons
20th Century Fox Feature Animation Phoenix

### Founders

Sean Elliott
Richard Hoffman
Michael Eisner
Jeffrey Katzenberg

### Headquarters

Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States
Hollywood, California, United States

### Key Peoples

Simon Clark (CEO)
Chris Wedge (President)
Andrew Millstein and Brian Keane (Co-President)
Jim Samples (Executive Vice President)

### Products

Theatrical animated short films
Theatrical animated feature films
Television animated series

### Divisions

SearchDark Animation
20th Television Animation

**20th Century Animation** is the animation studio division of 20th Century Studios. Founded on August 13, 1968, the studio creates animated feature films, short films, and television programs for 20th Century Studios, and currently maintains its main feature animation studio in Hollywood, California, which produces a total of 58 feature films including the *Pete, John and Jetty*, *Calvin the Squirrel*, *Henry's Quest*, *Helen and the Men from Outer Space*, *Charles and the Mouse*, *The Time Travelers* and *Susan* franchises as of as well as a satellite studio in Los Angeles, which produces animated television series, direct-to-video and occasional theatrical animated feature films. It also serves as the releasing banner for other animated films based on 20th Century Studios properties.

The studio was originally formed as **20th Century Fox Cartoon Studios** in 1968 by some of Fox's former animation branch 20th Century Fox Classics Animation alumni, as well as some of the staff from Terrytoons alumni, as well as some of the staff from Walter Lantz Productions, Cambria Productions and MGM Animation/Visual Arts. Fox also hires Don Bluth former animation branch Sullivan-Bluth Studios alumni and Turner Entertainment former animation branch Hanna-Barbera alumni, as well as alumni from Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment and News Corp. Animation, to work at its animation division in 1997, as old Fox staffs passed on from their lives and retired. In its prime, 20th Century Animation was prime competitor of Walt Disney Animation Studios (for feature films) and Warner Bros. Animation (for television series and direct-to-video films).

In recent years, 20th Century Animation has primarily focused upon the production of television, feature and direct-to-video animation of other properties owned by 20th Century Studios, notably including Saban Animation, as well as those related to films that already exist since 1971.

20th Century Animation continues to produce films using both traditional animation and computer-generated imagery (CGI).

## Background

Before it came around, 20th Century Fox Classics Animation first started off with the Educational Pictures. Educational Pictures was built on Terrytoon series, the company both backed and distributed Terrytoons. Farmer Al Falfa was Terry's most familiar character in the 1930s, Kiko the Kangaroo was spun off the Farmer Al Falfa series. Most of the other cartoons featured generic animal characters. One of the stock designs was a scruffy dog with a black patch around one eye; Terry ultimately built a series around this character, now known as Puddy the Pup.

Paul Terry may have realized that Educational was in financial trouble, because he found another lucrative outlet for his product. In 1938, he arranged to release his older cartoons through home-movie distributor Castle Films. Educational went out of business within the year, but 20th Century-Fox continued to release Terrytoons to theaters for the next two decades. With a new emphasis on "star" characters, Terrytoons featured the adventures of *Super Mouse* (later renamed *Mighty Mouse*), the talking magpies *Heckle and Jeckle*, silly *Gandy Goose*, *Dinky Duck*, and *The Terry Bears*.

During the 1940s and early 1950s, 20th Century Fox Classics Animation begun working on *Sourpuss*, *Moddy the Beetle* and *Telly the Canary*. and it continued on with another series like *Wacky Toons*, *Dingbat*, *Roquefort & Percy*, *Half Pint*, *Dimwit*, *Willie the Walrus*, *Percival Sleuthhound*, *Dizzy the Cat, Clancy the Bull*, *Snuffy Smith*, *Nutty the Bear* and *Let's Sing a SongToons*.

Despite the artistic drawbacks imposed by Terry's inflexible business policies, Terrytoons was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film: *All Out for V* in 1942, *My Boy, Johnny* in 1944, *Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life* in 1945, and *Sidney's Family Tree* in 1958. In 1950, after seeing the success of *Cinderella*, Terrytoons and 20th Century Fox Classics Animation expanded onto feature production.

The studio was sold outright by the retiring Paul Terry to CBS in 1956, but 20th Century Fox (TCF) continued to distribute the studio's releases. It became a division of the CBS Films subsidiary. The following year, CBS put it under the management of UPA alumnus Gene Deitch, who had to work with even lower budgets.

Deitch's most notable works at the studio were the *Tom Terrific* cartoon segments for the *Captain Kangaroo* television show. He also introduced a number of new characters, such as *Sidney the Elephant*, *Gaston Le Crayon*, *John Doormat*, and *Clint Clobber*.

Bill Weiss took complete control of the studio. Under his supervision, *Heckle and Jeckle, Puddy the Pup, Telly the Canary, Dizzy the Cat, Nutty the Bear* and *Mighty Mouse* went back into production. Besides the three core directors of the Terry and Fox era who were still involved as animators and directors, two Famous Studios stalwarts joined the crew, Dave Tendlar and Martin Taras. Other new theatrical cartoon series included *Hector Heathcote*, *Luno* and *Hashimoto San*. In addition, the studio began producing the *Deputy Dawg* series for television in 1959. Another television production for the *Captain Kangaroo* show was *The Adventures of Lariat Sam*, which was written in part by Gene Wood, who would later become the announcer for several TV game shows including *Family Feud*.

Phil Scheib continued as the studio's musical director through the mid-1960s when he was replaced by Jim Timmens and Elliott Lawrence.

The best-known talent at Terrytoons and 20th Century Fox Classics Animation in the 1960s was animator/director/producer Ralph Bakshi, who started with Terrytoons and 20th Century Fox Classics Animation in the 1950s as an opaquer, and eventually helmed the *Mighty Heroes* series. Bakshi left Terrytoons in 1967 for Paramount, which closed its cartoon unit later that year. He would later go on to produce *Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures* for television in 1987. Also next year, the 20th Century Fox Classics Animation was closed down after the last *Dizzy the Cat* short was finished, *Dizzy the Cat* last short was named, *That's My Daddy. That's My Daddy* was completed for a release on September.

On July 4, 1971, Viacom International spun off from CBS; neither Viacom International nor CBS had any interest in Terrytoons. The Terrytoons film library was still regularly re-released to theaters by Fox. The studio's last short was an unsold TV pilot called *Sally Sargent*, about a 16-year-old girl who is a secret agent. Soon after *Sally Sargent* was completed, Viacom International ended their relationship with Fox and re-releases ceased. Terrytoons’ existence soon came to an end. After the departure of Bakshi, the studio petered out, and finally closed in 1972.

## History

### 1968–70: Founding

In early 1968, Sean Elliott and Richard Hoffman, met with 20th Century Fox to discuss the creation of a feature animation division, an offer which Elliot and Hoffman immediately accepted. 20th Century Fox Cartoon Studios was officially established on August 13, 1968, to produce theatrically released animated feature films to rival Disney's animated features. Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg was brought in to head the new division, which was set up in a building on the Fox studios lot. To build the talent base, Elliot brought over artists from Terrytoons, while Eisner and Katzenberg brought over some of the staff from Walter Lantz Productions, Cambria Productions and MGM Animation/Visual Arts.

Some of 20th Century Fox Classics Animation' artists came to 20th Century Fox Cartoon Studios in winter 1968 after 20th Century Fox Classics Animation was shut down and was merged into PAS.

### 1971–1984: Initial success

The first of Fox's animated features was *The Princess and the Goblin* (1971). *The Princess and the Goblin* received positive reviews from critics and was a success at the box office. Animation production for *The Princess and the Goblin* was primarily done at the new Fox feature animation studio, although much of the work was outsourced to animation studios around the world. In 1972, Fox signed a co-production deal with Richard Williams and The Bobbs-Merrill Company to co-produce and distribute *Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure* (1977).

Meanwhile, **Fox Television Animation** opened its doors in 1982 to produce television series for 20th Century Fox Television. That same year, the studio produced its very first production, which is an animated television series based on *My Friend* *Flicka*, in conjunction with Hanna-Barbera Productions, airing on NBC from 1981 to 1984.

Initially focusing on Saturday morning cartoons such as *Cheaper of the Dozen*, it expanded in 1989 with its first two cable show *Little Bo Peep* and *The Simpsons*. Fourth overseas Fox studios were set up to produce the company's animated television series in 1984. However, As direct-to-video increased in importance, the overseas studios moved to making feature films.

### Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg's departure and "rock bottom" (1985–1989)

In 1985, two years after the released of *The Three Penguins*, Michael Eisner left Fox and became CEO of The Walt Disney Company, along with Jeffrey Katzenberg who later become chairman of the company as well as the founder of DreamWorks in 1994, while Sean Elliott and Richard Hoffman started as producer of the features.

The studio began the mid-1980s with the release of *The Gold of Heaven*, the last film project to be approved by Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg. However, the film was received mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office.

In 1987, 20th Century Fox Cartoon Studios was renamed into **20th Century Fox Feature Animation**, and released its twelfth film, *Hungry Hungry Hippos*, which based on the children's board game of the same name by Milton Bradley Company (now owned by Hasbro). *Hungry Hungry Hippos* opened in the theaters on the same day as Samuel Goldwyn/Bagdasarian's *The Chipmunk Adventure*, however, the film received negative reviews and it performed poorly at the box office, putting the future of the animation division in jeopardy and losing to its apparent competitor, *The Chipmunk Adventure*. However, the film became even more successful through merchandising and subsequent home video releases in the 1990s and became into a cult classic. Both *The Gold of Heaven* and *Hungry Hungry Hippos* would come to represent what would later be referred to as the "rock bottom" point for Fox animation.

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### 1990–2004: Fox Animation Legacy

In 1990, Disney's *The Rescuers Down Under* was released on the same year and received critical acclaim and a commercial success than *Three Billy Goats Gruff*. To compete with Disney animated films, Fox launched a marketing campaign to challenge Disney head-on and emphasize the more magical/musical-like experience, with slogans including "Fox have more magic than the mouse" and "With more magical, more musical and more entertaining, better than a mouse, Fox have it all".

After the success of *Three Billy Goats Gruff*, it was reported that 20th Century Fox Feature Animation would make a partnership with Sullivan Bluth Studios on few animated feature films, such as *Little Iodine*, *Henry's Quest*, and *Helen and the Men from Outer Space*.

In mid 1991, Fox created a new division named Fox SearchDark Animation, which typically produces animated films and television shows targeted to adult audiences, such as *Waking Life*, *King of the Hill*, *Family Guy*, *Teenage Madness*, and *American Dad!*. In 1995, after the release of *Henry's Quest*, Sean Elliott and Richard Hoffman has come to their retirement.

In May 1993, Fox agreed to a two-year first-look deal with Nickelodeon for family films. The deal would mostly include original material, though a Nickelodeon executive did not rule out the possibility of making films based on *The Ren & Stimpy Show*, *Rugrats* and *Doug*. However, no films came out of the deal due to the 1994 acquisition of Paramount Pictures by Nickelodeon's parent company, Viacom, and they would distribute the film projects instead.

On August 4, 1993, 20th Century Fox was brought by News Corporation following the purchase of 50.1% of Fox's shares for $8.95 billion, not only owning the rights to most of News Corp's pre-1993 film and television library but also taking on three more animation studios: News Corp. Animation, News Corp. Digital Images and Saban Animation. News Corp. Animation was immediately folded into 20th Century Fox Feature Animation with News Corp. Digital Images being renamed Fox Digital Images as the computer-graphics division of 20th Century Fox Feature Animation, while Saban Animation was integrated as a separate unit within Fox Television Animation, which was expanded to produce shows for Fox Kids, and it took over production of Saban and Fox Kids shows. Jeannie Benson and Hank Gibson also became leading animation units for the entire News Corp. group.

Some of Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment, Sullivan Bluth Studios and News Corp. Animation artists came to 20th Century Fox Feature Animation in 1997, when Sullivan Bluth Studios closure in 1995 after *Henry's Quest* was released, along with Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment, which was closed in 2001, and News Corp Animation's last feature, *Hans in Luck*, was completed and the merger with News Corp. and 20th Century Fox, with the rest doing so following the studio folded to 20th Century Fox Feature Animation.

In June 1998, 20th Century Fox acquired Blue Sky Studios and PorchLight Entertainment (theatrical films only). This meant that Fox would be able to release as many as three or four animated films in a year divided between the three studios. Many felt that this decision was made to help Fox to establish itself as a competitor to Disney's feature animation group, which consists of Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios.

At this time, there were several animated films on the company's development slate: *Dark Town* with Henry Selick, Chris Columbus and Sam Hamm, *Santa Calls* at Blue Sky, and Matt Groening (*The Simpsons*), Steve Oedekerk and Joss Whedon (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*) projects. The Phoenix studio at the time was producing *Planet Ice* expected in 1999 and directed by Art Vitello and Anastasia producer/directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's then soon to be announced project. Chris Meledandri remained as the president of the division, which was known by 1999 as 20th Century Fox Feature Animation. The only television series that the Phoenix studio produced was *Adventures from the Book of Virtues*, which was a co-production between Fox Animation Studios and PorchLight Entertainment; that series would air on PBS between 1996 and December 2000.

20th Century Fox Feature Animation vice president of physical production Chuck Richardson was sent in early December 1999 to Fox subsidiary Blue Sky Studios as general manager and senior vice president. Richardson was sent to prepare Blue Sky for feature animation production.

The Phoenix studio, which kept the Fox Animation Studios name, laid off 2/3 of its employee workforce in February 2000 before its renaming it in late June of that year, ten days after *Titan A.E.* was released, two months before *Totally Spies!* and six months before *Adventures from the Book of Virtues* aired its final episode. 20th Century Fox Feature Animation looked to produce films at Blue Sky and its Los Angeles headquarters.

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### 2004–2011: Conversion to computer animation

Upon the unsuccessful release of *Superbrother* and *The Munchkins*, Fox laid off most of the employees at the Feature Animation studio in Hollywood, downsizing it to one unit and beginning plans to move into fully computer animated films. A handful of employees were offered positions doing computer animation. Subsequently, after the release of *The Last Unicorn*, 20th Century Fox Feature Animation officially announced they were becoming a fully CGI studio, now with a staff of 460 people and began selling off all of its traditional animation equipment.

In 2004, 20th Century Fox Feature Animation released its first fully in-house computer-animated feature film *Charles and the Mouse* to critical and commercial success. It grossed $862 million worldwide, becoming the third highest-grossing film of 2004. *Charles and the Mouse* established Fox as the fourth studio after Pixar, DreamWorks Animation and Blue Sky Studios to have launched a successful CGI franchise. Ever since the release of *Charles and the Mouse*, 20th Century Fox Animation continues to produce successful CGI-animated feature films. These films included *Sailor Song* (2005), *Pussycats* (2006), *Speedy Turtle* (2007), *Charles and the Mouse 2* (2007), *Towser* (2008), *Bill the Minder* (2008), *The Eagle of the Moon* (2009), *Bally Journey* (2009), *Charles and the Mouse* 3 (2010), and *The Time Travelers* (2011).

In January 2007, Meledandri left for Universal Pictures to set up Illumination there with Vanessa Morrison as his replacement while answering to newly appointed 20th Century Fox Film Group vice chairman Hutch Parker. Morrison moved from the live action division where she handled family-children fare as senior vice president of production.

After the released of *Speedy Turtle* and *Wishbone*, Fox renamed its Feature Animation unit to **20th Century Fox Animation**, and merged its direct-to-video and television animation units with the feature animation.

On April 14, 2008, 20th Century Fox Animation announced it would release all of its films, beginning with *The Eagle of the Moon* (2009), in stereoscopic 3D.

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### 2012–2019: Further expansion and 21st Century Fox Era

In the wake of critical and box office success of their animated features, Blue Sky's *Ice Age: Continental Drift* and 20th Century Fox Animation's *The Ladybug Princess*, Heavy fan demand about bring back hand-drawn animation, 20th Century Fox announced that they reposition the studio as an animation house that produces both traditional and computer-animated projects, and extended its animation production unit at Los Angeles, devoted to the creation of animated productions. In order to keep costs down on hand-drawn productions, animation, design, and layout were done in-house at Fox Studio while clean-up animation and digital ink-and-paint were farmed out to vendors and freelancers.

In November 2012, While Simon Clark become the CEO of 20th Century Fox Animation and head of animation of Blue Sky Studios, Fox named a former president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, David Stainton, co-president of 20th Century Fox Animation. In March 2013, Stainton resigned for personal reasons.

In 2013, 20th Century Fox became the primary distributor of animated features produced by DreamWorks Animation, many of which, such as *The Croods*, *Prism*, and *The Boss Baby*, were notable critical and financial successes.

In September 2013, *Entertainment Weekly* reported that 20th Century Fox Animation was in the process of starting development of several animated films based on video games in collaboration with Brenda Chapman. 20th Century Fox Animation considered adapting *Darkstalkers*, *Earthworm Jim*, and *Skylanders* into films. In March 2016, Vanessa Morrison resigned after being as a president after 9 years. In July 2016, Fox named another former Disney Animation president Thomas Schumacher as the president of the studio.

On August 4, 2016, Netflix announced its first-ever license deal with 20th Century Fox Animation, becoming the exclusive streaming home for future 20th Century Fox animated feature films, as well as library films. The studio's head Alan Bailey also left 20th Century Fox Animation that summer.

In November 2016, Fox named former Cartoon Network president Jim Samples as the executive vice president of the studio. In December 2016, 20th Century Fox Animation officially announced the project as *Ferdinand* with Carlos Saldanha directing it. The studio also announced *Condorito: The Movie,* *Isle of Dogs*, *The Time Travelers: Next Adventures*, *The Master of the Defenders*, *Fairytales, Pigeon Impossible* (which later renamed *Spies in Disguise*), and *The Call of the Wild*. The increase in animated film production was due to DreamWorks Animation being owned by NBCUniversal to distribute their post-mid 2018 animated films.

In September 2017, Locksmith Animation formed a multi-year production deal with 20th Century Fox, who will distribute Locksmith's films, with Locksmith aiming to release a film every 12-18 months. The deal was to bolster Blue Sky's output and replace the loss of distributing DreamWorks Animation films, which are now owned and distributed by Universal Pictures.

On October 30, 2017, Morrison (previous president of 20th Century Fox Animation) was named president of a newly created 20th Century Fox division, Fox Family, which as a mandate similar to this company when it was called Fox Family Films. Andrea Miloro and Robert Baird were named co-president of Fox Animation the same day and would also have direct oversight of Blue Sky and oversee the Locksmith Animation deal and grow Fox Animation with other partnerships and producer deals.

In August 2018, Andrea Miloro and Robert Baird restructured the studio, increasing its number of employees from 10 to over 110, and created a new goal of releasing two tentpole animated films a year with different animation styles and genres. He would also look over the completion of *The Master of the Defanders*, *Pete, John and Jetty: The Three Animals*, and *Spies in Disguise*, which were in production before their arrival.

### 2019–present: Disney Era

On October 18, 2018, it was announced that 20th Century Fox Animation would be added alongside 20th Century Fox to the Walt Disney Studios following their acquisition, with president Thomas Schumacher and co-presidents Andrea Miloro and Robert Baird retaining leadership while reporting to Walt Disney Studios Chairman, Alan Horn and Twentieth Century Fox vice chairman Emma Watts.

On March 21, 2019, Disney announced that the 20th Century Fox Animation label (including Blue Sky Studios) would be integrated as new units within the Walt Disney Studios with Co-Presidents Andrea Miloro and Robert Baird continuing to lead the studio reporting directly to Alan Horn. Miloro step down as co-president in late July 2019. In August 2019, Walt Disney Animation Studios head Andrew Millstein was named as co-president of Blue Sky for day-to-day operations alongside Baird, while Pixar Animation Studios president Jim Morris would also be taking a supervisory role over Millstein. With the Disney take over, the Locksmith deal left 20th Century Fox for Warner Bros. in October 2019 except for the first and only film under the deal, *Ron's Gone Wrong.*

On January 28, 2020, Disney dropped the "Fox" name from the two main film studio units acquired from 21st Century Fox, while there were no mention of changes to other lesser feature film units.

In June 2020, 20th Century Animation launched its 20thTV (not confused to be current name for 20th Century Fox Television and its defunct television syndication company) channel, operated by AwesomenessTV, which would feature shorts and original series (including content based on 20th Century Studios franchises such as *Susan*), as well as previews and behind-the-scenes content related to its upcoming films.

In October 2020, 20th Century Animation introduced its new logo for both Hollywood and Los Angeles. On the same day, Disney+ announced its first-ever license deal with 20th Century Animation, becoming the exclusive streaming home for pre-2019 20th Century Studios animated feature films and television series. On February 23, 2021, Disney+ added many films from 20th Century Animation and other 20th Century Fox animated films, along with Star, becoming the exclusive streaming home for future 20th Century Studios animated feature films, as well as library films.

In February 2021, 20th Century Animation picked up two new films: an adaption of the upcoming Scottish ballad *Tam Lin* and an original animated film based of *Eek! The Cat* spin-off, *The Terrible Thunderlizards*.

On the same month, Disney announced that Blue Sky Studios will shutting down and folded into 20th Century Animation on April 2021, Chris Wedge (Co-founder of Blue Sky Studios) officially announced the studio had gone defunct and folded into 20th Century Animation as of April 7, 2021 in a letter to their staff across their social media platforms, Production on a film adaptation of the webcomic *Nimona*, originally acquired by Blue Sky Studios, was sold to 20th Century Animation.

On June 30, 2021, it was announced that Thomas Schumacher would be leaving 20th Century Animation at mid July 2021. Andrea Miloro will be serving as interim president of 20th Century Animation, with Schumacher helping with the transition.

On the same day, Chris Wedge would be named president of 20th Century Animation. At 20th Century Animation, he reunites with Andrew Millstein and Brian Keane, with whom he worked at his studio, Blue Sky Studios, which is shut down 2 months ago.

"I am thrilled to be joining 20th Century Animation and especially excited to be working with the deeply talented folks at here,” said Wedge. “I’ve been watching their work since I was a child, and it’s thrilling to be part of such a storied group. I’m equally excited to be working with Andrew Millstein and Brian Keane, who remains one of the best people I’ve ever had the privilege to work with." It will be effective in September 28, 2021.

On July 2, 2021, Andrew Millstein and Brian Keane has been named the Co-President of 20th Century Animation. It became effective on September 28, 2021.

On September 28, 2021, Chris Wedge was named his successor as president and general manager of 20th Century Animation.

## Locations

### Century City

*Main article: 20th Century Animation (feature animation department)*
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### Los Angeles

*Main article: 20th Century Animation (Los Angeles)*
## Logo

Initially, 20th Century Animation never had an on-screen logo for their first sixteen features. They just used the standard 20th Century Fox logo.

Beginning with the release of *Castle Knights: The Power of Universe* in 1991, 20th Century Fox Feature Animation introduced its in-credits logo. The logo reads "Created and Produced by 20th Century Fox Feature Animation Los Angeles, California" and was superimposed over either credits background or black background. For FoxToons Studios logo, the logo feature Calvin from *Calvin the Squirrel* in the red circle and writing the logo. FoxToons Studios logo appears in direct-to-video films, TV shows and specials.

This logo was seen after all films until 2007, when it was updated with the release of *Charles and the Mouse 2* since 20th Century Fox Feature Animation was renamed into 20th Century Fox Animation. Designed by Simon Clark, the modernized logo. The opening begins after 20th Century Fox logo finish where a camera zooming out to reveal a structure, it reads "20th Century Fox Animation". It was first seen in front of *Charles and the Mouse 2* and last seen in front of *Susan 2*.

When 20th Century Animation celebrated 50th Years in 2018, The logo begins with their animated films, including their feature animation department films, their original theatrical films, Blue Sky Studios films and other minor animated films that was distributed by 20th Century Fox was shown on their screens, zooming out and was little bit faster, after 3 seconds, an searchlight swopping left, revealing 20th Century Fox Animation 50th Years logo, underneath it, it reads "50th Years of Animation" It was first seen in front of *Adventures of Pearlheart 2* and last seen in front of *The Funny Sheep*.

In August 2020, 20th Century Animation introduced a new animated logo. When Thomas Schumacher came to 20th Century Animation, one of the first goals set by Cree Slate was to make a new logo for the division. The crew originally wanted to put a male character in the logo because the studio’s team is mostly male, but it was later scrapped, The logo was animated in-house at 20th Century Animation's headquarters in Century City, along with Blur Studio and Sony Pictures Imageworks. This logo made its debut in front of *Charles and the Mouse: When Squeaks Calls* on October 2, 2020.

## Process

Similar to Paramount Animation, Warner Animation Group and Sony Pictures Animation, the studio outsources animation production to other animation studios. *Ron's Gone Wrong* was developed outside of 20th Century Animation by Locksmith Animation, but the studio acquired the rights to the film and is co-producing it. Starting with *The Master of the Defenders*, each traditional-animated film will have a blend of 2D hand-drawn animated characters with *Who Framed Roger Rabbit*-styled lighting effects in a 3D computer-generated environment created by the filmmakers.

Unlike the feature animation department of 20th Century Animation, 20th Century Animation Los Angeles doesn't have an in-house animation style, although 20th Century Animation Hollywood handled animation for most film for Los Angeles studio. According to Thomas Schumacher and Jim Samples, each film will have their own unique style created by the filmmakers, which would be helped by outsourcing animation to different vendors.

## Filmography

*Main article: List of 20th Century Animation productions*

## Trivia

* Calvin from *Calvin the Squirrel* is considered to be a mascot of 20th Century Animation.
* A trio of comic relief characters named Pete (a wolf), John (a deer) and Jetty (a badger) appear in several 20th Century Animation film, as henchmen for the main antagonists.

## See also

* DreamWorks Animation
* Blue Sky Studios
* Terrytoons
* SearchDark Animation
* Maldonado Studios
* Saban Animation
* News Corp. Animation
* Regency Animation
* Walt Disney Animation Studios
* Pixar
* List of 20th Century Studios theatrical animated feature films
* List of Disney theatrical animated feature films
* List of unproduced 20th Century Animation projects
* List of animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company