Glass Ball Productions

**Glass Ball Productions** (also known as **Glass Ball Animation** or **Glass Ball Studios**, commonly referred to as **Glass Ball**) is an American film and television label of Gingo Animation, with both being part of NBCUniversal itself a division of Comcast. The studio creates occasional theatrical animated feature films and television series targeted to adult audiences with mature themes than those released under the Gingo name. It was established in 1993 and is based in North Hollywood, California.

Glass Ball is best known for the animated series *Geo TV*, *Cland Ann* and *Life of a Teenage Rockstar*, and the films *Geo Movie*, *Cland Ann: The Movie*, and *Sherman's Lagoon*.

## History

Glass Ball Productions was founded by Geo G. in 1993 as a film and television label of Gingo Animation. The same year, Glass Ball produced its sketch television series *Geo G's Sketch-O-Rama*, in which Glass Ball produced the show for 20th Century Fox Television. In 2000, Glass Ball produced its first feature film *Geo Movie*, which was based on the Fox (later ABC) animated sitcom *Geo TV*. It was released by 20th Century Fox on March 10, 2000, received positive reviews and was a commercial success. After the release of the film, it was announced it would be followed by two sequels.

Glass Ball's first sequel, *Geo Movie 2*, was released into theaters on September 26, 2003. The production of the third film *Geo Movie 3* began six months before the release of *Geo Movie 2*. Although, 20th Century Fox saw the disappointing box office sales, as well as the DVD and VHS sales of both movies being better than that of the box office, Fox felt the film (as well as future sequels) performed much better on DVD and VHS, thus, making a direct-to-video sequel. *Geo Movie 3* was released on home video on September 9, 2004.

In February 2009, Glass Ball acquired a Russian animation studio Yoctonime and re-branded it as Glass Ball Productions Moscow.

In 2014, it was announced that Glass Ball revealed the new logo, opened offices to Seoul (South Korea), Tokyo (Japan), London (United Kingdom) and Paris (France). The visual effects department was acquired by Libum Labs in 2014 and is currently known as DevilFish Creative FX, employing the former employees of Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain.

## Filmography

### Theatrical feature films

#### Released films

 5 | *3 Simple Doods*  | February 3, 2017 | 20th Century Fox

#### Upcoming films

 *Galerians*  | TBA

### Direct-to-video feature films

 5 | *Cland Ann: Silo Wilo Strikes Back*  | January 26, 2017

### Television series

All of the shows are created by Geo G.

 *Cland Ann*  | September 7, 2001
 *Life of a Teenage Rockstar* | January 31, 2010

## Units

### Worldwide

* **Glass Ball Productions Moscow** (Стакан Мяч производств Москва), founded in September 2015, located in Moscow, Russia.

### Other production studios

* **Glass Ball Online**
* **Glass Ball Media**

## Gallery

The Glass Ball Productions logo since 2017, first seen in *3 Simple Doods*. It is also used as a print logo for posters and trailers of movies made by Glass Ball Productions.The Glass Ball Productions logo from 2014 to 2017.The Glass Ball Productions logo from 1988 to 2014, still in use on some shows and films.