List of animation studios owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment

Warner Bros. Entertainment has owned and operated several animation studios since the company's founding on April 4, 1923, by Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner, as the Warner Features Company; Warner Bros. Animation in Burbank, California is currently the company's flagship feature animation studio and claims heritage from this original studio.

Besides Warner Bros. Animation, WB also presently operates the Warner Animation Group, Cartoon Network Studios, and Williams Street (both through Cartoon Network). This article does not include other animation studios whose films were released by Warner Bros. Pictures (the company's distribution unit) and not acquired by the company.

## Full list

Current animation studios
 **Cartoon Network Studios** | 1994

Divested or defunct animation studios
 **Warner Bros. Feature Animation** | 1994
 **Turner Feature Animation** | 1994
 **Animation**: Feature films
Spun off from the Hanna-Barbera feature animation division in 1994, the studio was later merged with Warner Bros. Feature Animation in 1997.

## Warner Bros. Pictures Group

### Warner Bros. Feature Animation

**Warner Bros. Feature Animation**, a division of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, opened in 1991 with 360 employees in Burbank, and another 100 employees in London. Warner Bros. placed veteran film producer Max Howard in charge of the new division

### Warner Animation Group

Main article: Warner Animation Group
The **Warner Animation Group** (officially abbreviated to **WAG**) was created in 2013, by Jeff Robinov to create animated theatrical films for Warner Bros. Pictures, and to replace the shuttered Warner Bros. Feature Animation which closed in 2004.

## Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics

### Warner Bros. Animation

Main article: Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Bros. Cartoons alumnus Chuck Jones in the 1970s began producing new *Looney Tunes* shorts, and films compiled of old shorts such as *The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie* in 1979. Due to the success of the film Warner Bros. reestablished an animation studio, hiring original employees Hal Geer, and Friz Freleng to lead the studio. The animation studio went on to create animated shorts throughout the 1980s and '90s, and animated the Steven Spielberg TV shows *Tiny Toon Adventures*, *Animaniacs*, *Pinky and the Brain*. The studio created iconic shows such as *Batman: The Animated Series* and *Superman: The Animated Series*.

### Warner Bros. Cartoons

Main article: Warner Bros. Cartoons
Established in 1933, after Harman and Ising who had been creating animated shorts for Warner Bros. since 1927, left for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Warner Bros. Cartoons began creating animated shorts for the company, going on to launch the most famous characters in history, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck for the *Looney Tunes* and *Merrie Melodies* series. The animation studio created dozens of award-winning shorts before shuttering in 1969.

### Cartoon Network Studios

Main article: Cartoon Network Studios
Founded in 1994, Cartoon Network Studios originated as a division of Hanna-Barbera, that focused on producing original programing for Cartoon Network including *Dexter's Laboratory*, *Johnny Bravo*, and *The Powerpuff Girls*. Following the merger of Hanna-Barbera's parent, Turner Broadcasting System with Time Warner, the Hanna-Barbera studio was folded into Warner Bros. Animation by its chief executive, Jean MacCurdy. After Hanna-Barbera merged into Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios was resurrected as a separate entity.

### Williams Street

Main article: Williams Street
Created in 1994, Williams Street Productions was started by Cartoon Network to produce more adult-targeted serials for the network. Being the main production arm of Adult Swim, the division started as ***Ghost Planet Industries***, named after the home planet of the titular character of their first production, *Space Ghost Coast to Coast.*

## Hanna-Barbera Cartoons

### Hanna-Barbera

Started in 1957 by *Tom and Jerry* creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The company went on to create numerous television shows. In 1991, the studio was acquired by Turner Broadcasting System, and began creating media exclusively for Cartoon Network. In 1998 it was moved to the same complex as Warner Bros. Animation, before the two companies were merged in 2001. Hanna-Barbera exists only as a copyright holder to their old properties.

### Turner Feature Animation

Founded in 1994, Turner Feature Animation was created from the feature animation division of Hanna-Barbera. After its first film in 1994, the studio's parent company Turner Entertainment was bought by Time Warner in 1996, and the Turner Feature Animation division was folded into Warner Bros. Feature Animation before the release of their second and final film.

## Notes

1. ↑ Original name for Williams Street, taking its name from the fictional planet from *Space Ghost*.