FoxToons Animation Studios

Trey Totowa (CEO)

Butch Caulfield (CEO)

Bart Pilkey (Chief Creative Officer)

Animated music videos

**FoxToons Animation Studios (FXTAS)**, sometimes shortened to **FoxToons Animation*,*** is an American animation studio that creates animated features, television shows, short films, and music videos for FoxToons Studios. Founded on February 10th, 1910 by Butch Caulfield and Bart Pilkey, it is the oldest-running animation studio in the Studiopolis Universe and currently operates as a division of FoxToons Studios, being headquartered at the Arnold N. Brady Animation Building at the FoxToons Studios lot in Glendale, California, United States, Studiopolis Universe. Since its foundation, the studio has created and produced numerous feature films, from *The Dawn of Roxy* (1912) to *The Adventures of Arnold Mack III: The Escape Punk* (2020), and hundreds of television shows, television shows, direct-to-video films, short films and animated music videos.

For much of its existence, the studio was recognized as the premier American digital ink and paint animation studio; it developed many of the techniques, concepts and principles that became standard practices of digitally-colored traditional animation. The studio also pioneered the art of storyboarding, which is now a standard technique used in both animated and live-action filmmaking. The studio's catalog of animated features is among FoxToons' most notable assets, with the stars of its animated motion pictures – Arnold Brady, Roxy Hunter, Desperaux Buxaplenty, Arnold Bores the Second Irate Gamer, Boris Hunter and Kirby Test – becoming recognizable figures in popular culture and mascots for FoxToons Studios as a whole.

FoxToons Animation Studios is currently managed by Bart Pilkey (Chief Creative Officer), Butch Caulfield (Chief Creative Officer), Trey Totowa (CEO), Elie Suave (Vice-President), and Grayson Stewart (President), and continues to produce motion pictures using both digital ink and paint animation and realistic computer-generated imagery (CGI).

## Productions

### Feature films

*Main article: Complete list of FoxToons Animation Studios films*

FoxToons Animation Studios has produced animated features in a series of animation techniques, including digital ink and paint animation, computer animation, combination of both and animation combined with live-action scenes. The studio's first film, *The Dawn of Roxy*, premiered in theaters on February 14th, 1912, and their most recent film, *Shaman Cruise*, was released on February 11th, 2021.

### Television shows

*Main article: Complete list of FoxToons Animation Studios TV shows*

FoxToons Animation Studios has also created many original serialized television series for FoxToons Network and its sister channels, including the *Arnold 5000* and *Phillysteria!* series. Since the late 1990s, the studio has also produced faithful animated adaptations of Disney Channel's original series with It's a Laugh Productions and That's So Productions, such as *The Suite Life of Charitard & Blastare*, *That's So Pocono*, *Britney Connolly*, *Meet the Poconos*, *Andi Test*, and *Ballerinas of Waverly Place*.

### Television movies

*Main article: Complete list of FoxToons Animation Studios television movies*

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### Short films

*Main article: Complete list of FoxToons Animation Studios short films*

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### Animated music videos (AMVs)

*Main article: Complete list of FoxToons Animation Studios AMVs*

Since the nationally televised premiere of *Rhythm Hero* in 1998, FoxToons Animation Studios has produced a series of animated music videos, notably the *Arnold's Pokemon Days* AMVs. Many of these AMVs provided a medium for the studio to experiment with new technologies that they utilized in their filmmaking process, such as the integration of the Filmlook technique in their 2003 *Britney Connolly* AMV for "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by Britney Connolly/Hannah Montana (2007), non-photorealistic rendering in their 2003 *Arnold's Pokemon Days* AMV for "Twistory Never Repeats" by Split Enz (2003), and the hand-drawn/realistic CGI hybrid animation in their 2019 *Philly-Saban: Brawl of the Wild* AMV for "Clocks" by Coldplay (2003).

On October 13th, 2020, FoxToons Home Video released a compilation of animated music videos in each genre entitled: *FoxToons Animation Studios Animated Music Video Collection* which includes, among others, the *Arnold's Pokemon Days* AMVs.