What if DreamWorks Pictures/DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1934?/DreamWorks Animation

DreamWorks Animation, LLC (more commonly known as DreamWorks Animation and DreamWorks Animation SKG, or shortly DWA) is an American animation studio that is a subsidiary of DreamWorks Studios, a subsidiary of Universal Studios, a division of Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

It is based in Glendale, California and produces animated feature films, television programs and online virtual games. The studio has currently released a total of TBD feature films, including the franchises Headin' South, The Dreamtoons Movie, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, Trolls and The Boss Baby.

It was founded on August 30, 1934 as the Dream E. Works Productions, founded by Dream Elysian Works, as it was exclusively produced cartoon short films and formerly advertisement films for various products just as Coca-Cola, and others. Later, the studio then expanded into a feature production in 1938, starting with its first film Headin' South later in 1943. In 1949, the studio also expanded itself to produce live-action productions, such as the series of live-action shorts, and later to its continuous line-up of live-action feature films, with its first being 1955's The Road to El Dorodo. During that time, the studios' nameless animation department was named into DreamWorks Cartoon Studio (1955-1980), DreamWorks Animation Studios (1980-1994) and DreamWorks Feature Animation (1988-1994).

In October 1994, Dream Elysian Works retired from DreamWorks Studios as she sold her studio to the current founder of Amblin Entertainment Steven Spielberg, former Walt Disney Studios' chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, and music editor for Geffen Records David Geffen to take over as the new CEOs for DreamWorks, along with its divisions. DreamWorks also hires Amblin Entertainment former animation branch Amblimation alumni to work at its animation division.

DreamWorks Animation currently 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.

Although the studio 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 earned three Academy Awards, as well as 41 Emmy Awards and numerous Annie Awards, and multiple Golden Globe and 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 DreamWorks Pictures, from 1955 to 2005, Paramount Pictures from 2006 to 2012, and 20th Century Fox from 2013 to 2017. Universal Pictures will distribute subsequent DreamWorks Animation films.