Animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company
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| Industry | entertainment |
| Fate | closed |
| Successor | Disney Circle 7 Animation |
| Founded | Bay Lake, Florida (May 1989) |
| Founder | Max Howard |
| Defunct | January 12, 2004 |
| Headquarters | The Magic of Disney Animation, Animation Courtyard, Disney-MGM Studios, Walt Disney World, Bay Lake, Florida, USA |
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Number of locations
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1 |
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Key people
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Production output
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Animation |
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Number of employees
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~400 (peak, mid-1990s) 258 (final) |
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Walt Disney Feature Animation (Walt Disney Studios) |
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| Industry | Entertainment |
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| Fate | closed |
| Founded | Santa Monica, CA 1979 |
| Defunct | 2001 |
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Number of locations
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2 |
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Key people
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Andrew Millstein (GM, VP) |
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Production output
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VFX, Animation |
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Number of employees
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350 (2001) |
| Parent | Walt Disney Feature Animation (1999-2001) |
| Divisions | DQ Films |
| Disney Animation Australia | |
| Industry | entertainment |
| Fate | closed |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Defunct | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
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Number of locations
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1 |
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Key people
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Philip Oakes (general manager) |
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Production output
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Animation |
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Number of employees
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~ 250 (2005) |
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DisneyToon Studios (Walt Disney Animation Studios) |
| Disney Animation Canada | |
| Industry | entertainment |
| Fate | closed |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Defunct | Spring 2000 |
| Headquarters | Canada |
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Number of locations
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2: Vancouver and Toronto |
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Production output
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Animation |
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Number of employees
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200 (2000) |
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Walt Disney Television Animation (Walt Disney Feature Animation) |
| Disney Animation France | |
| subsidiary corporation | |
| Industry | entertainment |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Founder | Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi |
| Defunct | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Montreuil, France |
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Production output
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Animation |
| Parent | Disney Television Animation |
| Industry | Entertainment |
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| Fate | closed |
| Successor | The Answer Studio Co. Ltd. |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Defunct | June 2004 |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
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Number of locations
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1 |
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Key people
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Motoyoshi Tokunaga (VP, GM) |
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Production output
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animation |
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Number of employees
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103 (2003) |
| Parent |
Disney Television Animation (Walt Disney Feature Animation) |
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| Industry | Entertainment |
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| Genre | Animation |
| Fate | Inactive |
| Successor | Cartoon Pizza |
| Founded | July 20, 1990 |
| Founders |
Jim Jinkins David Campbell |
| Defunct | 2001 |
| Headquarters | New York |
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Production output
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Animation |
| Parent | Walt Disney Pictures |
The Walt Disney Company has owned and operated several animation studios since the company's founding on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; the current Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California is the company's flagship feature animation studio and claims heritage from this original studio. Adding to the growth of the company and its motion picture studio division The Walt Disney Studios, several other animation studios were added through acquisitions and through openings of satellite studios outside of the United States. These expanded the company's animation output into television, direct-to-video, and digital releases, in addition to its primary feature animation releases.
Currently Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, DisneyToon Studios and Lucasfilm Animation are parts of The Walt Disney Studios unit. This article does not include other animation studios whose films were released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (the company's distribution unit) and not acquired by the company, nor does it count the Laugh-O-Gram Studio (1921–23), Disney's first animation studio, which predated the founding of The Walt Disney Company. For example, certain Studio Ghibli films were distributed by Disney internationally but never owned by the company. Also, Miramax, a independently operating unit of the Walt Disney Studios, also purchased US rights to foreign animated movies.
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