Spotlight Animation Studios

Spotlight Animation Studios (or simply Spotlight) is an American computer animation studio that produces animated films and television series and is a subsidiary of 20th Century Animation, a division and label of 20th Century Studios. Founded on July 4, 2022 by former Blue Sky collaborators Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha and based in Glendale, California, it is the spiritual successor to the now-defunct 3D computer animation studio Blue Sky Studios, which shut down in 2021, and is also a sister to the main 20th Century Animation studio.

History
Spotlight Animation Studios was founded in July 2022 by former Blue Sky Studios collaborators Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha after the closure of Blue Sky in April 2021 and the success of Ice Age: Scrat Tales. The studio's task was to produce two animated films a year with a budget range of $80-$100 million. In 2023, Spotlight formed a multi-year partnership with Texas-based animation and visual effects studio Reel FX Animation, which animated Free Birds, The Book of Life, ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoob! Scoob!], and Rumble, to provide animation for Spotlight's films, starting with Robots: Ratchet Strikes Back''. In 2025, Spotlight officially acquired Reel FX and rebranded the studio as Spotlight Animation Texas.

Process
In a similar fashion to Sony Pictures Animation and Warner Animation Group, Spotlight does not produce its films in-house where it is based in Glendale, but rather outsources the animation production of its films to other studios, with the majority of their films being animated by Spotlight Animation Texas (its sister company). Some films were animated by other studios outside of Spotlight's Texas animation studio. For example, the Buck Wild films were animated by DNEG, while Popeye, Kazorn and the Unicorn and Medusa were animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks.

Feature films

 * 1) Robots: Ratchet Strikes Back (2025)
 * 2) Anubis (2025)
 * 3) Ice Age: Freezing Finale (2026)
 * 4) Frogkisser (2026)
 * 5) Spies in Disguise: Killian Returns (2027)
 * 6) Cardboard (2027)
 * 7) Robots: Lost in Boltropolis (2028)
 * 8) Santa Calls (2028)
 * 9) Buck Wild: Legend of the Lost World (2029, Disney+ exclusive)
 * 10) Left Tern (2029)
 * 11) Spies in Disguise: The Last Mission (2030)
 * 12) Popeye (2030, co-produced with King Features Syndicate)
 * 13) The Epic Adventures in Ferngully (2031, Disney+ exclusive)
 * 14) Spore (2031)
 * 15) Buck Wild: Attack of the Pterosaurs (2032, Disney+ exclusive)
 * 16) Mutts (2032)
 * 17) Fender Pinwheeler (2033, Disney+ exclusive)
 * 18) Alienology (2033)
 * 19) Yummo Wickersham (2034, Disney+ exclusive)
 * 20) Kazorn and the Unicorn (2034)
 * 21) Nico and Pedro (2035, Disney+ exclusive)
 * 22) Zita the Spacegirl (2035)
 * 23) Roshan: The Untold Story (2036, Disney+ exclusive)
 * 24) Medusa (2036)

Films in development

 * Alcatraz vs, The Evil Librarians
 * Alien Rock Band
 * Amulet
 * Calling All Robots
 * Club Wildlife
 * Dino Riders
 * Gatchaman
 * Mega Man
 * Mouse Guard
 * Plants vs. Zombies
 * Rumblewick
 * Scrat: Escape from Planet Acorneus
 * Scrat: The Quest for the Last Acorn
 * Speed Drifters
 * Stoneflight
 * T28
 * The Graveyard Book
 * The Iguana Brothers
 * Tusker

Television series

 * 1) Ice Age: Subzero Adventures (2026-2028)
 * 2) Robots Assembled (2026-2028)
 * 3) Ice Age: A New Beginning (2027-2029)
 * 4) Real in Rio (2028-2035)
 * 5) Spies in Disguise: Pigeon Impossible (2028-2030)
 * 6) The Legendary Buck Wild (2030-2032)

Staff (A-Z)

 * Peter Ackerman
 * Bryan Andrews
 * Noah Baumbach
 * Peter Baynham
 * Michael Berg
 * Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger
 * Bibo Bergeron
 * Yoni Brenner
 * Nick Bruno
 * Chris Buck
 * Brenda Chapman
 * Galen T. Chu
 * Jill Culton
 * Bill Damaschke
 * Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio
 * Kirk DeMicco
 * Karen Disher
 * John C. Donkin
 * Joaquim Dos Santos
 * Lauren Faust
 * Matthew Fogel
 * Lori Forte
 * Kevin and Dan Hageman
 * Sam Harper
 * Jimmy Hayward
 * Jim Hecht
 * Vicky Jenson
 * William Joyce
 * Brian Keane
 * Buck Lewis
 * David Lindsay-Abaire
 * Donnie Long
 * Carl Ludwig
 * Angus MacLane
 * Steve Martino
 * Michael McCullers
 * Jim Morris
 * Matthew O'Callaghan
 * Mark Osborne
 * Bob Persichetti
 * Troy Quane
 * Mike Reiss
 * Chris Renaud
 * Denise L. Rottina
 * Carlos Saldanha
 * John Stevenson
 * Genndy Tartakovsky
 * Doug TenNapel
 * Michael Thurmeier
 * Guillermo del Toro
 * Jon Vitti
 * Chris Wedge
 * Michael J. Wilson
 * Edgar Wright