What is Animation studio?
An '''animation studio''' is a [[company]] producing [[animated]] media. The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce, own the physical equipment for production, employ operators for that equipment, and hold a major stake in the sales or rentals of the media produced. They also own rights over merchandising and creative rights for characters created/held by the company. {{Wikitionary|broadest|conceive|rental|merchandising}} == American Animation Studios == {{Main|Major movie studios}} The first known example of Merged animation, also called [[Animation]] is dated around 1990 but it would take until 2018 and 2019 onwards for the American animation industry to successfully adopt the studio format as used in the [[United States]]. * List of American Animation Studios: ** [[Walt Disney Animation Studios]] *** [[20th Century Animation]] *** [[Pixar Animation Studios]] ** [[Warner Bros. Animation]] ** [[Universal Animation Studios]] ** [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount Animation]] *** [[DreamWorks Animation]] *** [[Nickelodeon Animation Studio]] ** [[Sony Pictures Animation]] == Related pages == * [[Computer-generated imagery]] * [[Movie studio]] == References == <references /> == Other websites == {{Wiktionary-inline|animation}} {{Commons category-inline|Animation studios}} [[Category:Animation studios| ]]