DreamWorks Animation

DreamWorks Animation Studios SKG is an American animation studio that is a subsidiary of the DreamWorks Holdings SKG and a trading name of the American Greetings Animation Studios.

It is based in the DreamWorks Animation Campus in Glendale, California and produces animated feature films, television programs and online virtual games.

The studio has currently released a total of 50 feature films, including the franchises Shrek, its prequel-spinoff Puss in Boots, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon and Trolls, and other hits including Bee Movie, Monsters vs. Aliens, Rise of the Guardians, The Croods, Home, and The Boss Baby.

DreamWorks Animation also owned and numbered it's films to the DreamWorks Cannon, such as Charlotte's Web, The Care Bears Movie, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, Balto, all movies based on Nickelodeon shows, and Rango.

American Greetings bought the ITC Entertainment library in 2023.

Originally formed under the banner of its main DreamWorks studio in 1997 by some of Amblin Entertainment's former animation branch Amblimation alumni, it was spun off into a separate public company in 2004.

DreamWorks Animation maintains its Glendale campus, as well as satellite studios in India and China.

On August 22, 2016, NBCUniversal acquired DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion, making it a division of the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group.

As of April 2017, its feature films have grossed $14.20 billion worldwide, with a $417.8 million average gross per film. Shrek 2 is among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, and fourteen of the films are among the 50 highest-grossing animated films, with Shrek 2 being the ninth all-time highest.

Although the studio also made traditionally animated films in the past, as well as stop-motion co-production with Aardman Animations, all of their films now use computer animation.

The studio has received three Academy Awards, as well as 22 Emmy and numerous Annie Awards, and multiple Golden Globe & BAFTA nominations.

In recent years, the animation studio has acquired and created new divisions in an effort to diversify beyond the high-risk movie business.

Films produced by DreamWorks Animation were formerly distributed worldwide by its main DreamWorks studio and then by Paramount Pictures, who acquired the main DreamWorks studio in February 2006 and spun it off again in 2008.

In early 2013, 20th Century Fox took over a theatrical distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation films starting on March 22, 2013 with The Croods and ended on June 2, 2017 with Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, after which its parent Universal Pictures will distribute subsequent DreamWorks Animation films, starting on November 9, 2018, with the release of How the Grinch Stole Christmas when Illumination Entertainment announced to become DreamWorks' new majestic division in 2016.

in 2022, American Greetings folded Comcast and the film television and film divisions of Viacom and holed it's animation studio of the DreamWorks Animation Campus in Glendale, California.

Divisions

 * DreamWorks Animation SKG Home Entertainment
 * DreamWorks Animation SKG Records
 * DreamWorks Animation SKG Television
 * DreamWorks Animation SKG Studio Facilities
 * DreamWorks Animation SKG International
 * DreamWorks Classics SKG

Logo
The DreamWorks logo features a boy sitting on a crescent moon while fishing.

The general idea for the logo was the idea of company co-founder Steven Spielberg, who wanted a computer generated image.

Illustrator Robert Hunt was commissioned to execute the idea as a painting and from this work, who the artist used his son as the model.

The logo was then turned into a motion graphic at Industrial Light & Magic, in collaboration with Kaleidoscope Films, Dave Carson and Clint Goldman. It was animated by ILM animation supervisor Wes Takahashi.

Music accompanying the logo to start live-action DreamWorks movies was specially composed by John Williams; the DreamWorks Animation logo has music from the Harry Gregson-Williams/John Powell score for the 2001 film Shrek.

The font is set in Minion Pro Black.

in 2004, DreamWorks decided to make a new logo by adding a balloon kid and, the rainbow text and daylight for animated DreamWorks films, but the Live-action DreamWorks studio remains on live-action DreamWorks films.

in 2010, DreamWorks made a new logo with a nightie sky, Lavender Text and fuchsia clouds.

in 2022, DreamWorks made the enhanced version of the live action logo, but the kid and the moon above the text and "Animation" were added.