20th Century Animation (feature animation department)

The feature animation department of **20th Century Animation**, formerly known as **House of Cartoons Films** from 1922 to 1929, **Dorgan Studio** from 1922 to 1930, **Dorgan Toons** from 1930 to 1943, **Twentieth Century-Fox Cartoons, Inc.** from 1943 to 1951, **Foxtoons Studios Los Angeles** from 1951 to 1956, **Twentieth Century-Fox Animation Studios** and **Fox-Martin Studios** from 1956 to 1970, **Twentieth Century-Fox Cartoon Studios** from 1971 to 1987, **Twentieth Century Fox** **Feature Animation** from 1987 to 2007 and **20th Century Fox Animation** from 2007 to 2020, is the in-house animation division of 20th Century Studios, and is based at the Fox Studio Lot in Los Angeles, California. Established in 1922 by **Tad Dorgan**, formerly known as **House of Cartoons Films** and **Dorgan Studio**, who ran the pioneering company from its inception until 20th Century Studios, the studio's parent company and the distributor of its films, acquired ownership. In its prime, Twentieth Century-Fox Cartoons, Inc. was a premier producer of animated cartoons for theaters, with Walt Disney Productions becoming its chief competitor in the 1930s. Today, the company is again family owned and oversees the licensing and merchandising for its characters.

Dorgan Toons is notable for Weatherbird, Judge Rummy, Timbo, Old Doc Yak, and Lucky Leopard. Dorgan' most successful characters were anthropomorphic animals (with the exception of Timbo). The cartoons of the Dorgan Studio were very different from the Disney product, both in concept and in execution. As a result, the Dorgan cartoons were rough rather than refined, commercial rather than consciously artistic. But in their unique way, their artistry was expressed through a culmination of the arts and sciences.

In the 1943, Tad Dorgan left the studio which lead to Dorgan Toons to be renamed into **Twentieth Century-Fox Cartoons, Inc.** then **Foxtoons Studios** and later **Twentieth Century-Fox Animation Studios** and **Fox-Martin Studios**, after 20th Century Fox acquired the animation studio along with producing new characters such as *Little Georgina*, *Little June*, *Mary Ferret, Robby and Bobby, Violet Power, Joshua the Nerd Genie, Terrytoons, and the anthology Foxtoons series.*

The library of Foxtoon Studios cartoons is currently divided between three separate film studios (via various subsidiaries): The Walt Disney Company through 20th Century Studios (who owns entirety of their cartoons, as well as the entirety both of Gabirel Martin-directed/produced Foxtoons shorts and films), Paramount Global (who owns the entirety of the *TerryToons* cartoons) and Warner Bros. Discovery through Turner Entertainment (who owns entirely of the “Violet Power” cartoons), In 1968, the division was formerly known as **Twentieth Century-Fox Cartoon Studios** before being renamed to **Twentieth Century Fox Feature Animation** in 1987, and was shortened in 2007 and renaming it again in 2020 to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation. It replaces **Foxtoons Studios** since 1968.

20th Century Animation has produced 142 feature films, its first film *Kitty Softpaws* was released on April 20, 1940 and its latest release was *Vana Glama and Justin Casey* on August 6, 2023 with their next release being *Foxtoons: Adventures in Wonderland* on October 27, 2023.

## History

### Early founding and the silent era (1923–1931)

The Dorgan Toons was built on Tad Dorgan's novelty film series, *House of Cartoons* (1913-1928). The novelty was based largely on the results of the "animated adaptation of comic strip", invented by Judge Rummy to produce drawing animation. The first *House of Cartoons* films were produced through The Bray Studio. They featured Anderson's first character, "Judge Rummy".

In 1921, The Bray Studio ran afoul with legal issues, having contracted for more films than it could deliver to its distributor, Goldwyn Pictures. Tad Dorgan left and began their own studio **House of Cartoons Films** with Tad Dorgan as director, production supervisor and producer, at 124 West 15th Street, later to 750 Seventh Avenue, Times Square, midtown Manhattan, New York City. In 1925, animator, John Foster came to the House of Cartoons Films studio and redesigned "Judge Rummy" for more efficient animation. Foster's new design and experience as an animator moved them away from their dependency on the rotoscope for fluid animation. In addition to defining the police dog, Foster established the Dorgan style with its distinctive thick and thin drawing lines. In addition, Foster created Rummy's companion, Human Boy, who would evolve into Timbo in 1931.

Throughout the 1920s, Dorgan was one of the leading producers of animation with clever moments and numerous innovations. These innovations include the "Cel Animation", an early photographic process for compositing animation with animated backgrounds. Other innovations included *Singing Toons* and sing-along shorts (featuring the famous "bouncing ball"), a precursor to karaoke.

In 1925, American inventor Charles A. Hoxie and Victor Baravalle formed the Yellow Penguin Pictures Corporation. Hoxie was the theatrical manager of the Portland, Majestic Theater, and Peery's Egyptian Theater theaters. Because the Anderson Studio films were a major part of the program in Baravalle's theaters, Tad Dorgan were invited to become partners. The Yellow Penguin Company committed to an ambitious release schedule of 52 films with The Dorgan Studio as the primary supplier. The following year, Yellow Penguin released 193 films that included documentaries, short comedy subjects, and live-action serials. Jennie Get It, also known as Jennie Comedies, was one of the Yellow Penguin series that featured Carl's daughter, Mary in a supporting role. Crane Wilbur made his screen debut in this series and dated Mary for a short time.

Pathé Exchange released cartoon novelty series such as *Animated Universe* Cartoons by Cartoonist "Lichty" and Soglow. *Animated Universe* series resembled the on-screen hand drawing gimmick established in Anderson Studio. In this case, "Lichty" produced high-quality drawing line portraits of celebrities and political figures. Then through painting animation techniques, the lines and forms would break away to entertainingly re-form the portrait into another. Soglow was similar in concept to the *Animated Universe* films, but was more of a visual puzzle novelty using a variety of progressive scratch-off/reveal techniques and rearranged animated cutouts to change the images.

It was during this time that Charles A. Hoxie started filming Hoxie-Sponable experiments featuring several of the major Broadway headliners. The Yellow Penguin company began acquiring more theaters outside of New York and equipped them with sound equipment produced by Charles A. Hoxie, displaying "talkies" three years before the sound revolution began. Because of Tad's interest in technology, Baravalle introduced him to Merrill Lynch. And it was through this partnership that Carl produced a number of the Singing Toons as sound releases. Of the 47 song films produced between 1925 and 1928, 26 were produced as sound films beginning in 1927 with standard silent versions as well. The first sound release was *My Father Hug Me*. Other sound releases included *Hushband Harry Grant*, *Where Harrison?*, *A Trip to Delaney'*, *Look Through the Oats*, *My Son's Goning to Overseas*, *Louise, I cannot Get Up in the Morning*, *Nice Sally* *Very Beautiful Robert*, *Leaving for My Biplane*, and *The Shiny of the Golden Coin*.

Yellow Penguin owned 63 theaters, extending as far east as Oakland, California. But after only two years of operation, Yellow Penguin was broke. Tad Dorgan sought an appointment of receiver in bankruptcy in November 1927. Just as the situation looked hopeless, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. appeared from the horizon with a Pathé Exchange contact.

The Pathé Exchange deal provided financing and distribution. But due to legal complications of the bankruptcy, the title to *House of Cartoons* was changed to *The Toons World* (1928-1930) and the studio was renamed Dorgan Productions. One year into the relationship, Tad Dorgan discovered mismanagement under Kennedy Sr. and left before the end of the *The Toons World* contract. Dorgan Studios filed bankruptcy in February 1930. In April, Tad Dorgan formed Dorgan Toons. Operations were first set up at the Pacific Title & Art Studio in Hollywood. With a skeleton staff, Dorgan Toons started out doing industrial films, most notably, *Looking for Voice*, a technical demonstration film explaining RCA Photophone's Variable Density recording and reproduction system. Tad Dorgan secured a new contract with Fox Film to produce a revival of the "Bouncing Ball" song films, re-branded as *Sing-a-long Toons*, with *The Sideways of Florida* as the first release on March 11, 1930.

### Sound films and Dorgan Studios era (1930–1941)

The early experiments with sound synchronization gave Tad Dorgan experience in perfecting the post-production method of recording, aided by several inventions by founder, Tad Dorgan. And with the conversion to sound, Fox Film needed more sound films, and cartoons could be produced faster than feature films. As the *Sing-a-long Toons* returned Dorgan to the established song film format, a new sound series, *Speakertoons* replaced the silent *The Toons World*, the first being *The Five Commandments* released on November 26, 1930. Earlier entries in the series were one-shot cartoons, until the appearance of *Timbo* as of the fourth entry. Timbo evolved through several redesigns in each cartoon for the first year. While the intent was to develop him as the star of the series, it was the cameo appearance of a Spencer Tracy caricature in the seventh entry, *Fizzy Machines* that took center stage. Audience reactions to the Florida preview were so great that Fox Film encouraged the continued development of the most famous character to come from the Tad Dorgan by that time, Weatherbird. While originated as a human character, Weatherbird was transformed into a bird character he is known as by 1933. Having become the main attraction of the *Speakertoons*, he was given her own series, which ran until 1940.

The "Comedian Bird" Flipper character, Weatherbird lifted the spirits of Unpressed Era audiences with his paradoxical of childlike innocence. Being a comedian novelty character, he was a natural for theatrical entertainment. Several of his early cartoons were developed as promotional cars for some of the top performers of the day including Jerry Colonna (*I'll Be Good When You're Give it to Me You Silly*), Cliff Edwards (*I Listen*), and most notably, the three cartoons made with Jimmy Durante, *Rick the Pooch*, *Robin Hood*, and *The Young Boy of the Sea*. This was considered a bold action in light of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People policies active in the North where such films would not be shown.

In 1936, the Chicago Board of Censors resulted in severe censorship for films. This affected the content of all of Fox's films as well, which tended to reflect a more "mature" tone in the features of the George Sanders, Ritz Brothers, and most of all, Jane Darwell. As a result, each of these stars was released as Fox changed the content of its films to reflect a more "general audience" in order to comply with the new Censors and stay in business. Fox Film had also gone through three reorganizations from bankruptcy between 1932 and 1937. The new management under Sidney Kent set out to make more general audience films of the type made at MGM, but for lower budgets. This change in content policy affected the content of cartoons that Dorgan was to produce for Fox Film, which urged emulation of the Walt Disney and Paramount product

While Fox Film was a large organization with a network of theaters, its fiscal consciousness was largely responsible for preventing Dorgan Studios from acquiring the three-strip Technicolor process, leaving it available for a four-year exclusivity with Walt Disney, who created a new market for color cartoons, established by Academy Award winner, *Flowers and Trees* (1932).

Fox Film acquiesced to the release of the Colorful Toons series starting in 1935. But with the exclusivity of the three-color process still held by Disney, Anderson Studios used the available two-color processes, Brewster Color, later Foxcolor, a two-emulsion red and blue process, and Two-color Technicolor, using red and green. By 1937, the Disney exclusivity had expired, and Dorgan Studios used the three-color process in its color cartoons beginning with *Duckling Banner* and continued using it for the remainder of its active years.

The Dorgan Studio's greatest success came with the licensing of Sidney Smith's comic strip character Old Doc Yak beginning in 1934. *Old Doc Yak* eventually became the most popular series the studio ever produced, and its success surpassed Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoons, documented by popularity polls. And with the availability of full spectrum color, the Dorgan Studios produced three two-reel *Old Doc Yak* featurettes, *Old Doc Yak Meets Buck Nix* (1937), *Old Doc Yak and Yutch* (1938), and *Old Doc Yak and Miss Laura* (1940). This series of longer-format cartoons were an indication of the emergence of the animated feature film as a commercially viable project beginning with Walt Disney's *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1937).

The Dorgan Studios had reached its zenith by 1937, with four series and 52 annual releases. Due to the phenomenal success of the Old Doc Yak cartoons, 20th Century Fox demanded more, and the Dorgan Studio experienced rapid expansion in order to balance out the increased workload. The crowded conditions, production speedups, drawing quotas, and internal management problems resulted in a Labor Strike beginning in May 1937 which lasted for five months. This strike was a test case, the first launched in the motion picture industry, and produced a nationwide boycott of Dorgan cartoons for the duration.

Tad Dorgan had been petitioning 20th Century Fox for three years about producing an animated feature. Fox vetoed his proposals until the proven success of Disney's *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1937). 20th Century Fox now wanted an animated feature for a 1940 Easter release. This request came at the time of preparations for relocating to Los Angeles, California. While the relocation had been a consideration for some time, its final motivation was made a reality due to lower corporate tax structures and an alleged escape from the remaining hostility from the strike.

The new Dorgan Studio opened in November 1939, and production on its first feature, *Kitty Softpaws* (1940), went from the development stage begun in Florida to active production in Los Angeles. The score was by 20th Century Fox staff composer, Alfred Newman and recorded at the Fox north coast facilities. While limited to only 60 theaters in a one-month release, *Kitty Softpaws* earned more than $5 million, in spite of exceeding its original $600,000 estimated cost. Accordingly, a second feature was ordered for the Easter period, *Jorinda and Jorindel* (1941).

=== Fall and departure of Dorgan, Acquisition by 20th Century Fox and 20th Century Fox Cartoons era (1941–1952)

While profits dwindled, 20th Century Fox continued to advance money to Dorgan Studios to continue the production of cartoons with its focus mainly on *Old Doc Yak*, *Violet Power*, and *Jorinda and Jorindel*, a new feature film for the 1941 Easter season; all in hope of rekindling the studio. On June 25, 1942, 20th Century Fox demanded reimbursement on the penalties still owed after 18 months and assumed full ownership of Dorgan Studios, Inc. The Dorgan remained in control of production until December 1942. *Mirror of Matsuyama*, intended for release in March 1942, was not released until May 1942, and never recouped its costs.

In spite of living up to his contractual obligations and delivering the film, Tad Dorgan was asked to resign. John Foster had resigned the month before, and Fox finished out the last five months of the Dorgan contract without the Dorgan and Foster. The last cartoon produced at the credited Dorgan Studios was the *Violet Power* cartoon *Princess of England* and final theatrical animated film under Dorgan Studio was The Crane and the Crab, which was released on January 24, 1943. Fox renamed the studio 20th Century Fox Cartoons on June 28, 1943.

Shortly after the rename, Fox began plans to move a significantly downsized 20th Century Fox Cartoons back to Florida, a move completed mid in 1944. Virtually all of the Fox Cartoons staff, from storyboard artist/animator/voice actor/writer/director Ben Hardaway, comedian duo Abbott and Costello and animator/director/film producer Shamus Culhane, as well as other animators such as Jules Engel, Jesse Marsh, Don Lusk, Tyrus Wong, and Walt Kelly, were moved to 20th Century Fox Cartoons. These artists remained with 20th Century Fox Cartoons for much of the studio's existence. As at Dorgan's, the head animators carried out the tasks that were assigned to animation directors at other studios, while the credited directors such as Tom Palmer, Isadore Sparber, Gregory La Cava, Bill Littlejohn, Volney White, and Disney/Van Beuren veteran Burt Gillett—acted more as supervisors. Frank Marsales served as musical director until he was replaced in 1949 by Maury Laws, who would later worked for Videocraft International (now known as Rankin/Bass).

Continuing series from the Dorgan period included *Old Doc Yak* and *Violet Power*, both licensed from popular comics characters. The expensive *Violet Power* cartoons, having lost their novelty value with exhibitors, ended production in 1944, a year after Fox Cartoons' inception. They were replaced by a series starring a little girl character *Little Georgina*. Also in 1944, Fox Cartoons began producing the formerly black-and-white *Old Doc Yak* cartoons in Technicolor, and began a new series of one-shot cartoons under the umbrella title *Foxtoons* (similar in respects to the *Colorful Toons* series from Dorgan Toons, and also the *Looney Tunes* and *Merrie Melodies* series from Warner Bros.).

The *Foxtoons* series introduced several popular characters such as *Robby and Bobby*, *Mary Ferret* and ‘’Joshua the Nerd Genie*, created by artist Frank Moser and former Disney animator Cy Young during World War II as a children's book manuscript, was sold to 20th Century Fox Cartoons in 1946 and became the studio's most successful wholly owned property. In 1949, Fox decided to stop paying* Little Georgina *creator Jennifer licensing royalties, and created "princess girl" character,* Little June*, as a replacement. That same year 20th Century Fox Cartoons resurrected an old Dorgan series,* Singing Toons*, introducing a new series of musical cartoons featuring a "bouncing ball" sing-along. In 1952, the Screen Songs became "Toon-a-Long Song," which ended in 1954 after Ted Dorgan claimed ownership of the "bouncing ball" trademark. Only two more musical cartoons were released (as one-shot Foxtoons): in 1955 ("Sweet 'n' Sour") and 1964 ("King's Vacation"). Although the studio still carried much of the staff from the previous regime, animation fans and historians note that its films soon diverged from the previous style. Many of them deride the company style for being highly formulaic and largely oriented towards a children's audience, with none of the artistic ambition or sophistication that the previous management strove for. The next year, 20th Century Fox Cartoons created another cartoon character.* Calvin the Squirrel*, which it later become the studio's most valuable animated property. The shorts were successful at the box office, many licensed products (comic books, toys, etc.) were released to the market.*

### Rebranding, taking over most of the Foxtoons shorts, and competing with Disney (1952–1968)

Gregory La Cava died of his sleep in 1952. Bob Clampett and Hal Seeger became the production heads of the studio shortly afterward, and Ruby Larriva and Cal Dalton was promoted to director in 1954.

The mid and late-1950s brought a number of significant changes for 20th Century Fox Cartoons. In 1956, 20th Century Fox sold most of their pre-November 1951 shorts and cartoons, except for the *Old Doc Yak* and *Violet Power* shorts, to National Telefilm Associates for television distribution. The *Violet Power* cartoons were acquired by Associated Artists Productions, and the *Old Doc Yak* cartoons had already reverted to Superman's owners Chicago Tribune after the studio's film rights to the character had expired. In November 1957, 20th Century Fox Cartoons was downsized and reorganized, which lead Fox assumed full control of the studio, spilt into two studios, **20th Century Fox Classics Animation** for animated shorts and **Fox Martin-Studios** for animated feature films. After Hal Seeger was fired, Gabriel Martin decided to owned her rights to her character, such as Calvin the Squirrel, while still in charge of the studio. However, he allowed 20th Century Fox to placed him as their mascot.

*More coming soon!*

### Switching to feature animation division, renaming, and the entrance of Sean Elliot, Richard Hoffman and Phil Jones (1968-1985)

By the spring of 1968, 20th Century Fox had begun the process of shutting down the New York studio and placing the Century City studio as Fox's main animation studio, a task completed in June. In the meantime, Martin hired Sean Elliot and Richard Hoffman as one of the new producers and directors for the studio's then-upcoming films. Elliot brought over artists from Terrytoons, while Martin brought over some of the staff from Total Television, Walter Lantz Productions and MGM Animation/Visual Arts. Some of 20th Century Fox Animation Studios' artists came to 20th Century Fox Cartoon Studios in spring 1968 after it was shut down by Fox. The studio later renamed as **20th Century Fox Cartoon Studios** in June 1968.

*More coming soon!*

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

In 1985, a years after the released of *The Lost Boy*, 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.

The following year, its next film, *The Lost City of the Jungle,* released in 1986, it received critical acclaim from critics who praised its animation, musical score, and plot and was a modest box office success, making it one of the highest-grossing films of 1986, as well as the highest-grossing 20th Century Fox animated film before *Henry's Quest* dethroned it in 1995. Due to Its success, They led 20th Century Fox Cartoon Studios to rename **20th Century Fox Feature Animation**. In recent years, the film has garnered a cult following.

In 1987, 20th Century Fox released its nineteen 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.

In September 1987, 20th Century Fox released its next film, Marco Diaz, which was based on the character from Star vs. The Forces of Evil. *Marco Diaz* opened in the theaters in September 25, 1987, however, the film received positive reviews and it performed good at the box office, with them praising the animation and story. However, the film became even more successful through merchandising and subsequent home video releases in the 1980s and became into a cult classic.

In May 1988, 20th Century Fox released *The Adventures of Daisy*, the film received positive reviews from critics, with them praising the animation and story. However, the film outgrossed *Oliver & Company* in the US and went on to become the most successful animated feature in the US to that date until *The Land Before Time* beats the record of the films.

In 1989, Fox released *Tooth Fairy* on December 22, 1989, a month after Disney's *The Little Mermaid* and United Artists/Bluth's *All Dogs Go to Heaven* released on the same day. However, Disney's *The Little Mermaid* was released on the same year and received critical acclaim and a commercial success than *Tooth Fairy*. 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".

### Beginning of the 20th Century Fox Animation Legacy, successful releases, returning to compete with Disney (1990–1995)

In 1990, *Rock n' Roll 3: Around the World* was released, unlike the first two *Rock n' Roll* film, the film received mixed to negative reviews, with critics praising it's animation but criticising it's story. Despite this, the film eventually received a cult following.

The following film, *Three Billy Goats Gruff*, which became critical and financial success, grossing over $312 million worldwide, a record for the studio. *Three Billy Goats Gruff* was the first of a series of blockbusters that would be released over the next decade by 20th Century Fox Feature Animation, a period later designated by the term 20th Century Fox Animation Legacy.

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*, *Stella and Chris* and *Helen and the Men from Outer Space*.

The next film, Fox released its first sequel *Castle Knights: The Power of Universe* on the same day of Warner Bros. *Rover Dangerfield*. However, the film did not duplicate the success of *Three Billy Goats Gruff*. It was accompanied in theaters by the studio's first non-*Calvin the Squirrel* animated short, *Captain Joyce*.

In 1992, Fox released *World of Raccoons*, to released to critical and financial success, grossing over $278 million worldwide. The successes of *Three Billy Goats Gruff a*nd *World of Raccoons* established the template for future Fox releases during the 1990s: a musical-comedy format with Broadway-styled songs and tentpole action sequences, buoyed by cross-promotional marketing and merchandising, all carefully designed to pull audiences of all ages and types into theatres to compete with Disney.

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.

The following film, *The Man and the Lion 2*, a sequel to the studio's 1981 *The Man and the Lion*, it was a critical and commercial success, earning over $303.8 million against its $59 million budget.

*Little Iodine*, released in November 1993, as a first collaborative project from 20th Century Fox and Sullivan Bluth Studios, earning $168 million worldwide at the box office, which did get slightly better than Sullivan Bluth Studios's previous film *Rock-a-Doodle*.

In 1994, Fox created a computer animation department at the studio's main headquarters that would produce computer-generated productions, including special effects for some of their films. For then, the studio had the traditional animators working for their main hand-drawn animation department, and the computer animators worked on CG productions, The same year, *Dream Toy* was released, it received positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation, characters, music, and performances, although some compared it unfavorably to the Disney Renaissance era, such as *The Little Mermaid* and *Beauty and the Beast*. It was a success at the box office, earning over $266 million worldwide on its $23 million budget, making it the second highest-grossing animated film of 1994.

In August 1995, 20th Century Fox and Sullivan Bluth Studios released *Henry's Quest*, directed by Simon Clark and Eric Taylor. *Henry's Quest* earned $937 million at the worldwide box office, to this date a record for a traditionally animated film, earning millions more merchandising, promotions, and record sales for its soundtrack. With the success of the film, 20th Century Fox acquired Sullivan Bluth Studios from Don Bluth and renaming it Fox Animation Studios (now 20th Century Fox Feature Animation Phoenix).

In addition, the successes of the animated films from Disney and Fox, such as *World of Raccoons*, *Aladdin*, *The Lion King* and *Henry's Quest* spurred a significant increase in the number of American-produced animated features throughout the rest of the decade, with the major film studios establishing new animation divisions such as Sullivan Bluth Studios, Universal Feature Animation, Amblimation, Rich Animation Studios, Turner Feature Animation, and Warner Bros. Animation being formed to produce films in a Disney/Fox-esque musical-comedy format such as *We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story* (1993), *Thumbelina* (1994), *The Swan Princess* (1994), *A Troll in Central Park* (1994), *The Pebble and the Penguin* (1995), *Cats Don't Dance* (1997), *Quest for Camelot* (1998), and *The King and I* (1999). Out of these non-Disney/Fox animated features, only *The Last Little Pegasus* and *Life of Teenagers* were a box-office success.

### End of the 20th Century Fox Animation Legacy, Sean Elliott and Richard Hoffman's departure, News Corp. era (1995–2000)

*Stella and Chris* was released on October 30 1995. it received mixed reviews from critics but proved to be a success at the box office. The film earned $68.4 million in worldwide box office.

In November 22, 1995, Sean Elliott and Richard Hoffman has come to their retirement after the release of *Henry's Quest*, while Karen Disher has been named president of 20th Century Fox Feature Animation.

The following year, *The Ballerina Girl* was released on August 23, 1996. However, unlike its predecessor, it received mixed reviews from critics but proved to be a success at the box office. *Helen and the Men from Outer Space*, was released in summer 1997 as the last collaborative project from 20th Century Fox and Sullivan Bluth Studios. The film earned $836 million in worldwide box office. In the same years, 20th Century Fox started producing computer-animated short films to compete with Pixar, after the success of their short film, including *Toy Story*. These included *Crazy Farms Animals*, *The True Meaning of Monkeys*, *Roses Rising* and *Little* *Fairies*.

Some of News Corp. Animation's artists came to 20th Century Fox Feature Animation in 1997, with the rest doing so following the studio merged with its feature animation rival, Warner Bros. 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.

In 1998, Fox released four animated films for the fourth time, *Angie Roberts' Revenge and Angie Roberts' Big Stand, Toons Journey*, a live-action/animated fantasy comedy-adventure in August and *Michael & Christopher*, a animated musical comedy-buddy film. However, *Toons Journey* grossed $157 million worldwide, *Angie Roberts' Revenge and Angie Roberts' Big Stand* grossed $187 million worldwide*,* while *Michael & Christopher* was a disappointment at the box office, possibly due to it being overshadowed by Disney/Pixar's *A Bug's Life*, which was came out around the same time. It was responsible for beginning the decline of traditional animated films.

In 1999, *Rock n' Roll: The Last Song* was released*,* It was a critical and commercial success, earning over $379.7 million against it $30 million budget. It was a final installment of the *Rock n' Roll* franchise*.*

The following film*, Magicia*, the film was a box office success, grossing over $525 million worldwide against a $49 million budget and received positive reviews, with praise toward the cast, screenplay and animation.

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, eleven days before *Totally Spies!* and six months before *Adventures from the Book of Virtues* aired its final episode. Fox Animation looked to produce films at Blue Sky and its Los Angeles headquarters.

The next year's *The Tale of Prince Larry*, the film received mixed to positive reviews from critics and grossed $475 million worldwide and *Paint World,* the film grossed $375 million at the box office worldwide on a $32 million budget and was met with widespread critical acclaim toward its romantic narrative, animation, characters, and musical numbers and the film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song for the song "Things Have Changed", but lost to "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from *Wonder Boys*, another animated film released in 1994.

### Karen Disher's departure, downsizing and conversion to computer animation (2001–2007)

Just after *The Tale of Prince Larry's* November 2000 release, it was announced that Feature Animation president Karen Disher would be resigning from the studio, before moving on to become VP production at Blue Sky Studios, Chris Meledandri was the successor of Karen Disher.

In August 2001, *Mrs. Pepperpot* was released, It was directed by *Magicia* director Mark Oliver, and was a mixed reviews, but a commercial success, grossing $364 million worldwide against a budget of $35 million.

In October 2002, *Superbrother* was released. It received mixed to positive reviews from critics, earning over $169 million worldwide on its $47 million budget making it a box office bomb. While it did not repeat the box-office success of previous feature films, but it was successful on home video, becoming one of the biggest-selling DVD releases ever.

In February 2003, 20th Century Fox Feature Animation announced a slate of CGI animated feature films in development to be produced by its Digital Images division as a result of the successes of *Crazy Farms Animals, The True Meaning of Monkeys, Roses Rising, Little Fairies,* and Blue Sky's *Ice Age*; these films included *Charles and the Mouse*, *Crazy Guy*, *Sailor Song, Pussycats*, an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale *The Town Musicians of Bremen*, *Speedy Turtle*, *The Phantom Tollbooth*, and a feature-length film version of *Little Fairies*.

*Foxtoons: Spy Toons*, an live-action/animated spy comedy-adventure directed by David Silverman (animation) and Brian Levant (live-action), The film received positive reviews from critics who praised the film for its animation. However, while grossing $69 million worldwide on its $65 million budget, the film underperformed at the box office, forcing a writedown of $35.8 million for Fox, despite having a underperformed at the box office, It was also inspired a streaming sequel.

Clark later explained that to maintain the studios' separate identities and cultures (notwithstanding the fact of common ownership and common senior management), he and the 20th Century Fox Feature Animation executives "drew a hard line" that each studio was solely responsible for its own projects and would not be allowed to borrow personnel from or lend tasks out to the other; the rule ensured that each studio would maintain "local ownership" of projects and could "be proud of its own work". Thus, for example, when 20th Century Fox Feature Animation had issues with *Charles and the Mouse* and Blue Sky Studios with *Robots*, "nobody bailed them out", and each studio was required "to solve the problem on [their] own", even when they knew there were personnel at the other studio who, theoretically, could have helped.

The studio's another film, *Steven's Journey*, directed by Tom Sito and Matthew O'Callaghan, It received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised the film's animation, voice cast and the screenplay and was a critical and commercial success, earning over $280 million worldwide on a budget of $55 million. Upon the unsuccessful release of *Superbrother* and *Foxtoons: Spy Toons*, 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.

The studio's next film, Angie Roberts in New York, released on April 28, 2004, It received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised the film's animation,earning over $290 million worldwide on a budget of $65 million.

The studio's last hand-drawn animated film, *The Last Unicorn*, released in May 2004, underwent production difficulties and received mixed reviews from critics and under-performed at the box office which led to a growing perception that hand-drawn animation was becoming outdated and falling out of fashion in favor of the increasing popularity of computer animation. Subsequently, 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, Fox 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, it was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, losing to The Incredibles

In January 2005, *Crazy Guy* was released, It received positive reviews from critics and fans, with viewers praising the story, animation, musical score, humor, and performances, it became a box office hit and grossed $485 million against a $100 million budget..

In June 2005, the studio released its third computer-animated film, *Sailor Song*, which the film received positive reviews and a critical and financial success; it grossed over $379 million worldwide.

In April 2006, the studio released its fourth computer-animated film *Joy*, It generally had positive reviews and had grossed over $814 million worldwide at the box office.

In August 2006, the studio released its fifth computer-animated film *Pussycats*, which had been in active development since 1998, to generally positive reviews and had grossed over $394 million worldwide at the box office.

In September 2006, the studio released its sixth computer-animated film *The Angie Roberts Movie*, It had grossed over $384 million worldwide at the box office.

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.

In February 2007, the studio released its seventh computer-animated film *Speedy Turtle*, to mixed reviews from critics. However, it was a box office success, earning $587 million worldwide.

### Reorganization, renaming (2007–2011)

In June 14, 2007, 4 months after the released of *Speedy Turtle*, Fox renamed its Feature Animation unit from 20th Century Fox Feature Animation to **20th Century Fox Animation**, and merged its direct-to-video and television animation (with an exceptions of Fox Television Animation, which is still active) units with the feature animation. Animators at Hollywood worked on projects based at the Hollywood studio, but also assisted in projects based in the Los Angeles PA studio.

In June 2007, the studio released its next computer-animated film *Justin Casey's Biirthday Party*, to mixed reviews from critics. However, it was a box office success, earning $807 million worldwide.

In August 2007, 20th Century Fox Animation released its thirty-third feature and fifth sequel *Charles and the Mouse 2* opened in 2007. It earned over $958 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing animated film of the year and breaking a record as the most profitable film from 20th Century Fox Animation. The studio's next feature *Swapped*, a CGI animated comedy that follows a young girl and a teenage goth boy who swap bodies. it has received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation and songs, It became a box office success, grossing $376 million worldwide. against a $43 million budget. It was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, but lose to *WALL-E*.

*Bill the Minder*, a CGI animated comedy adventure film, was released in September 2008. it received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation, visuals, and performances but criticized it as being derivative, and grossed $289.6 million worldwide against a $79 million budget. In June 2009, the studio released *The Eagle of the Moon*, to generally positive reviews and had grossed over $175 million worldwide at the box office. In August 2010, *Charles and the Mouse 3*, the third installment in the Charles and the Mouse franchise, was released. The film was a box office success, earning over $752 million worldwide. However, unlike the first two *Charles and the Mouse* films, *Charles and the Mouse 3* was not well-received critically. The following year, *The Time Travelers*, the studio's thirty-seventh film, was released and became a significant critical and commercial success, earning $642 million worldwide.

### 21st Century Fox Era (2012–2019)

After *The Time Travelers*, *The Owl in the Day* was released, It was a critical and commercial success, earning $595 million worldwide.

In June 2012, the studio released *Angie Roberts and Friends Go To The Movies*, It had grossed over $357 million worldwide at the box office.

In August 2012, *The Ladybug Princess*, directed by Clark, Allers, Silverman, and O'Callaghan, was the studio's first hand-drawn animated film in eight years. A return to the musical-comedy format of the 1990s with songs by Marc Shaiman, the film was released in 2012 to a positive critical reception and was nominated for several accolades; it earned $738 million in worldwide box office revenue, making it the highest-grossing non-Disney animated film of the year, overpowering Laika's *ParaNorman*.

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, The studio's next feature was *Mischievous Mark*, released in August 2013 with mostly positive reviews from critics and grossed $642 million worldwide.

In December 2013, *Who Blamed Hazel Bunny?* was released, It received mixed reviews from critics and the film grossed $246.6 million worldwide, against a budget of $187 million.

In August 2014, the studio released *The Time Travelers 2,* a sequel to the studio's 2011 *The Time Travelers*, to positive reviews and earned over $742 million worldwide, becoming a box office hit. *Susan*, a CGI comedy film, was released in January 2015 to widespread acclaim and became a blockbuster hit. Directed by Clark and Brad Copeland, it was the first Fox animated film to earn over $1 billion in worldwide box office revenue. It also received two Academy Award nominations.

An animated reboot of the Julie Jackson film series, *Julie*, opened in theaters in September 2015, earning over $643 million worldwide, but received mixed reviews. In March 2016, Vanessa Morrison resigned after being as a president after 9 years, on the same months, *The Owl in the Day 2* was released, It was receives positive reviews for its story, animation and humor. the film grossed over $580 million worldwide.

In July 2016, Fox named another former Disney Animation president Thomas Schumacher as the president of the studio.

In September 2016, the studio released *Green Demon*, a CGI action adventure film. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing over $648 million. The studio's head Alan Bailey also left 20th Century Fox Animation that summer.

*The Time Travelers* spin-off *Edward: The Terrified Viking* was released on December 9, 2016, and was another commercial and critical success for the studio, grossing over $528 million worldwide and receiving two Academy Award nominations. After the released of *The Owl in the Day 2*, *Green Demon* and *Edward: The Terrified Viking*, Fox became the second studio that released three feature-length CG-animated films in a year, after DreamWorks Animation.

In November 2016, Fox named former Cartoon Network president Jim Samples as the executive vice president of the studio.

In April 2017, the studio released *Kelly's World*, based on the animated series *Bobby's World*. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film grossing over $858 million worldwide. *Frogger*, based on the video game franchise published by Konami, was released on September 8, 2017, the film earned over $831 million worldwide, becoming a box office hit.

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 November 2017, the studio released Angie Roberts and Friends' Christmas, this film grossed over $898 million worldwide.

The studio's next film, *James and Suzy*, was released on December 2017, The film was a critical and commercial success, with many praising its animation, visuals, humor, characters, and the performances of Ferrell, Gomez, Riggle, Rudolph and Grammer, and earned a total of $749 million worldwide against its $65 million budget. It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, and through home video releases, gathered a cult following.

*The Time Travelers: Next Adventures*, the third installment in the Time Travelers franchise, was released on June 2018 and was another commercial and critical success for the studio, grossing over $897 million worldwide and receiving two Academy Award nominations. *The Masters of the* *Defenders*, a fantasy comedy adventure animated film was released in December 2018 and was the first Fox animated film to earn over $2 billion in worldwide box office revenue.

### Disney Era (2019-present)

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*.

In April 2019, the studio released Trulli Tales: The Movie, based on the animated series *Trulli Tales*. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film grossing over $896 million worldwide.

In May 2019, *The Owl in the Day: The Summer Flood* was released*,* It received mixed-to-positive reviews, the film grossed over $669 million worldwide.

With the August 2019 20th Century Fox slate overhaul announcement, projects from 20th Century Fox franchises such as *Night at the Museum*, *Diary of the Wimpy Kid*, and *Ice Age* were announced for the then-upcoming Disney+ streaming service. These projects would later be announced during Disney's Investor Day in December 2020 as animated feature films for the aforementioned streaming service. The first of these projects was an animated reboot of *Diary of a Wimpy Kid*, which was released on December 3, 2021 under Walt Disney Pictures.

In September 2019, the studio released *Pete, John and Jetty: The Three Animals*, starring the animals trio from various Fox films. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film grossed over $849 million worldwide.

The studio's next feature film was the sequel *Susan 2*, released on November 2019. The film grossed over $1 billion worldwide. According to Fox (who does not consіder the 2019 *The Lion King* remake to be an anіmated film), *Susan 2* is the highest-grossing anіmated film of all tіme.

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.

On late January 2020, 20th Century Animation introduced its new logo for both Hollywood and Los Angeles.

On July 2020, *San Francisco Park* was released on Disney+ with Premier Access in the United States and international due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it received positive reviews from critics and fans, who praised its humor, writing, and story, Due to its overall limited theatrical release as a result of the pandemic, the film grossed $65 million at the box office against a production budget of $198 million. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.

On August 2020, *Angie Roberts and the Tooth Fairy* was also released on Disney+ with Premier Access in the United States and international due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it received positive reviews from critics and fans, who praised its humor, writing, and story, Due to its overall limited theatrical release as a result of the pandemic, the film grossed $79 million at the box office against a production budget of $209 million.

The studio's next film *Charles and the Mouse:* *When Squeak Calls* theatrically released in October 2, 2020, with a November 13, 2020 released simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access in the United States and international due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film received positive reviews from critics, and only grossed $12.6 million worldwide with a $468 million budget.

On February 9, 2021, 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 scheduled to be released on January 14, 2022, was cancelled as a result of its closure. In addition, *Nimona* would later picked up by Annapurna Pictures in early 2022, with DNEG Feature Animation taking over production, for release on Netflix in June 30, 2023.

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.

The studio's next film *Angels Squad* was released on July 30, 2021 in theaters and on Disney+ simultaneously, It was met with positive reviews from critics, who commended its humor, characters, screenplay, animation, and the vocal performances of Dinklage and Saldana.

Angie *Roberts and Friends' Snow Day* was released on September 16, 2021 in theaters and on Disney+ simultaneously, It was met with positive reviews from critics, who commended its humor, characters, screenplay, and animation.

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

On October 10, 2021, the studio released *Stella and Chris On the Big Screen*, It received positive reviews from critics and fans, who praised its humor, writing, and story, and was a box office success, grossing over $389 million against its $94 million budget.

On December 3, 2021, the studio released *Dipper!*, It received positive reviews from critics and fans, who praised its humor, writing, and story, and was a box office success, grossing over $383 million against its $24 million budget, making it the second highest-grossing animated film of 2021.

On February 21, 2022, Carlos Saldanha (a former Blue Sky Studios animators) was hired as the co-executive vice president of movies and global franchises for both 20th Century Animation and Maldonado Studio. In this position, Saldanha will oversee both streaming and theatrical films for the two companies.

On April 1, 2022, *Boilvar* was released, It received positive reviews from critics, and was a box office success, grossing $324 million worldwide against a budget of $58 million, making it the sixteen highest-grossing film of 2022.

On July 16, 2022, *Angie Roberts and Friends in Space* was released, It received positive reviews from critics, and was a box office success, grossing $329 million worldwide against a budget of $66 million.

*The Time Travelers: Into the Internetopia*, the fourth installment in the Time Travelers franchise, was released on August 2022 and was received positive reviews for its humor, visual effects, and voice acting. It grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the fifth 20th Century Animation films to pass the billion-dollar mark, the highest-grossing The Time Travelers film ever, the third highest-grossing film of 2022, and the first highest-grossing film.

On October 23, 2022, *Justin Casey in Hollywood* was released, It received positive reviews from critics, and was a box office success, grossing $338 million worldwide against a budget of $79 million.

In December 2022, the studio released Horizon, a animated fantasy adventure film, it was both a critical and commercial success, grossing over $479 million worldwide and becoming the ninth highest-grossing film of 2022, the fourth highest-grossing traditionally animated film (behind the original version of *The Lion King*, *The Simpsons Movie* and *Aladdin*)

On March 31, 2023, *The Owl in the Day: Rise of the Hawk* was released, it received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its animation, voice cast, humor, and soundtrack, but criticized its story and writing. However, the film was a box office success, earning $632 million worldwide on its $74 million budget, becoming the third, and so far highest-grossing animated film of 2023.

## Upcoming projects

20th Century Animation is currently working on *Susan: Cruisewrecked* (July 14, 2023) Vana Glama and Justin Casey (August 6, 2023), *Foxtoons: Adventures in Wonderland* (October 27, 2023), *Pippi Longstocking* (April 26, 2024), Angie Roberts and Friends Camping Day (July 9, 2024) and *Skeeter Quest* (November 22, 2024). Other 20th Century Animation films in development include *Land of the Future*, an original film about a boy going into the world where he in the future, *Pete, John and Jetty: New York Most Wanted*, a computer-animated sequel to *Pete, John and Jetty: The Three Animals*, a animated reboot to the *Dunston Checks In*, and three animated films based on *Strawberry Shortcake*, *Adventures from the Book of Virtues* (co-produced with Maldonado Studios) and *Futurama.*

## Filmography

### Feature films

*Further information: List of 20th Century Animation films*
### Short film

*Further information: List of 20th Century Animation short films*

### Television specials

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### Television programming

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## Accolades

*Main article: List of accolades received by 20th Century Animation*

## Trivia

* 20th Century Animation is often described by fans as the 20th Century Studios counterpart of Walt Disney Animation Studios while Blue Sky Studios (pre-2021) and Sunny Sky Studios Studios (post-2021) is described as the 20th Century Studios counterpart of Pixar.
	+ According to 20th Century Studios and Disney fans, 20th Century Animation is actually true competitor of Walt Disney Animation Studios since 1980.
* Starting with *The Munchkins* in 2003, It will reads "20th Century Fox Feature Animation presents" after 20th Century Fox logo is finished, until August 2007, when it replaced to "20th Century Fox Animation presents" after 20th Century Fox Animation logo is finished, instead of 20th Century Fox logo, which came before 20th Century Fox Animation logo, it was also used for Blue Sky Studios films starting in "*Adventures of Pearlheart*" (first film to have its name in the credits) and was lasted until "*Fairytales*", which is the final Blue Sky Studios films, before its closed down on April 2021.
* Starting with *San Francisco Park* in 2020, the word "FOX" was removed from the logo, making the company known simply as 20th Century Animation.

## See also

* 20th Century Animation
* 20th Television Animation
* DreamWorks Animation
* News Corp. Animation
* Reel FX Animation Studios
* Blue Sky Studios
* Regency Animation
* Maldonado Studios
* Kingdom Entertainment
* Sunny Sky Studios
* Terrytoons
* Saban Animation
* Bento Box Entertainment
* Sullivan-Bluth Studios
* Walt Disney Animation Studios
* Disney Television Animation
* Pixar
* List of 20th Century Studios theatrical animated feature films
* List of Disney theatrical animated feature films
* List of unproduced 20th Century Animation projects