Fox Animation Studios
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| Division | |
| Industry |
CGI animation Motion pictures Stop-motion Traditional animation |
| Fate | Closed |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Founder |
Don Bluth Gary Goldman Stephen Brain |
| Defunct | June 26, 2000 |
| Headquarters | Phoenix, Arizona |
| Products | Animated features |
| Owner | 21st Century Fox |
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Number of employees
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380 (1999) |
| Parent |
20th Century Fox Animation (20th Century Fox) |
Fox Animation Studios was an American animation production company located in Phoenix, Arizona. It was a division of 20th Century Fox Animation.
After the financially unsuccessful release of Sullivan Bluth Studios' film Thumbelina in 1994, animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman were hired by Bill Mechanic, then-chairman of 20th Century Fox, to be the creative heads of the animation studio. Mechanic and John Matoian, President of Fox Family Films, also brought in Stephen Brain (Executive VP at Silver Pictures) as Senior VP/General Manager to oversee the startup of the studio and run day-to-day operations of the division.
The studio closed in 2000, after the financial failure of their third and final film, Titan A.E..
The company was designed to compete with Walt Disney Feature Animation, which had phenomenal success during the late 1980s and early 1990s with the releases of films such as The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992) and The Lion King (1994). Walt Disney Pictures veterans Bluth and Goldman came in 1994 to Fox from Sullivan Bluth Studios, which had produced The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, and both All Dogs Go To Heaven and Rock-a-Doodle, among other films.
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