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List Of Nickelodeon Animation Studio Productions
This article contains a list of productions made by Nickelodeon Animation Studio, which is a part of Nickelodeon Networks and owned by Paramount Global. This list includes animated television series, shorts, specials, and other projects. Television series Anthology series Nick Jr. shows Other Paramount networks Digital short series Short pilots Nickelodeon (greenlit to series) Nickelodeon (not greenlit to series) Produced for other Paramount-owned networks TV movies and specials Broadcast releases Digital releases Direct-to-video All the films (except the international release of ''Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure'') were distributed to home video by Paramount Home Entertainment. Theatrical films All the films are distributed by Paramount Pictures. References {{Reflist Nickelodeon Animation Studio Lists of animated television series These are lists of animated television series. Animated television ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Nickelodeon (nicknamed Nick) is an American pay television channel and the flagship property of the Nickelodeon Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children, it is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 2 to 17, along with a broader family audience through its programming blocks. The channel began as a test broadcast on December 1, 1977, as part of QUBE, an early cable television system broadcast locally in Columbus, Ohio. On April 1, 1979, the channel was renamed Nickelodeon and launched to a new nationwide audience, with '' Pinwheel'' as its inaugural program. The network was initially commercial-free and remained without advertising until 1984. Nickelodeon gained a rebranding in programming and image that year, and its ensuing success led to it and its sister networks MTV and VH1 being sold to Viacom in 1985. Nickelodeon began expanding as a franchise model ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gábor Csupó
Gábor Csupó ( , ; born September 29, 1952) is a Hungarian animator, writer, director, producer and graphic designer. He is co-founder of the animation studio Klasky Csupo, which produced the first three years of ''The Simpsons'', as well as episodes of ''Rugrats'', '' The Wild Thornberries'', ''Duckman'', '' Stressed Eric'', '' Rocket Power'', '' As Told by Ginger'', and ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters''. Early life Csupó was born on September 29, 1952, to Jewish parents in Budapest, Hungary. Career After four years at the Pannónia Filmstúdió animation studios, Csupó emigrated to the West in 1975. While working in Stockholm, Sweden he met Arlene Klasky, an American-born animator. The two subsequently started their own company, Klasky Csupo, which produced many popular animated television shows. Before starting Klasky Csupo he emigrated to the United States in the late 1970s and began working as an animator for Hanna-Barbera on a few shows such as '' Casper and the Angels'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Viksten
Stephen Lee Viksten (July 19, 1960 – June 23, 2014) was an American television writer and voice actor who was best known for co-developing and voicing the character Oskar Kokoshka on the Nickelodeon animated series ''Hey Arnold!''. Viksten also wrote multiple episodes of ''Hey Arnold!'', ''Rugrats'', '' Recess'', ''Duckman'' and ''The Simpsons''. Viksten's sole contribution to the latter, season 22's "Homer Scissorhands", was his final writing credit before his death. Early life Viksten was born in Ventura, California on July 19, 1960. His father was the vice president of the local Sears. During his teenage years, Viksten's family moved to Arcadia, California, where Viksten became editor of Arcadia High School's newspaper. After graduating from Arcadia High School in 1978, Viksten attended several universities including the University of Missouri, UCLA, and Cal State Fullerton California State University, Fullerton (CSUF or Cal State Fullerton) is a public research univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Ansolabehere
Joseph Michael Ansolabehere (born June 18, 1959) is an American writer and producer. He is the co-creator of '' Recess'' and ''Lloyd in Space'' with partner and friend Paul Germain; they form the team Paul & Joe Productions. He also served as a story editor on the first 65 episodes of ''Rugrats'', as well as a co-producer and story editor of the first season of ''Hey Arnold!'' Ansolabehere has a daughter, Jean, who is also a writer. His son Hugo was born in 2013. Ansolabehere is married to costume designer Dorotka Sapinska. He currently lives in New Zealand. Early life Born in Sacramento, California, of Basque descent, Ansolabehere is the oldest of five brothers. His brother Stephen is a political scientist and Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government at Harvard. His brother Paul is a vice president of Anagram in Minneapolis, and his youngest brother, Louis, is a computer technician. As children they moved around often, living in Detroit, Champaign, Reno-Sparks, and Minneapolis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Bartlett
Craig Michael Bartlett (born October 18, 1956) is an American animator. He wrote, directed, created, and produced the Nickelodeon television series ''Hey Arnold!'' and the PBS Kids television series ''Ready Jet Go!'' and ''Dinosaur Train''. Career Bartlett's first job, after graduating from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, was at Will Vinton Studios in Portland, Oregon, where he learned the art of stop-motion animation, working on movies such as '' The Adventures of Mark Twain''. Bartlett moved to Los Angeles in 1987 to animate the "Penny" claymations for the second season of '' Pee-wee's Playhouse'' on CBS. He later made an animated ID for NBC with Klasky Csupo. He later worked at BRC Imagination Arts, directing projects such as ''Postcards'' and ''Mystery Lodge'' for Knott's Berry Farm. He also animated the music video for "Jurassic Park" by "Weird Al" Yankovic from the 1993 album ''Alapalooza''. Bartlett met the Nickelodeon execs while story editing ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hey Arnold!
''Hey Arnold!'' is an American animated sitcom created by Craig Bartlett for Nickelodeon. It originally aired from October 7, 1996, to June 8, 2004. The show centers on fourth grader Arnold Shortman, who lives with his grandparents in an inner-city tenement in the fictional city of Hillwood. Episodes center on his experiences navigating urban life while dealing with the zany hijinks he and his friends encounter. Many episodes, however, focus on other characters, including major, secondary, supporting, and even minor characters. Bartlett's idea for the show is based on a minor character named Arnold who he created while working on '' Pee-wee's Playhouse''. The executives enjoyed the character, and Bartlett completed the cast and setting by drawing inspiration from people and locations he grew up with in Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; and Brooklyn, New York. Bartlett created the pilot episode in his living room in 1994 and official production began in 1995. The animators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gaffney
Peter Gaffney is an American writer, story editor and producer best known for his writing work on ''The Simpsons'' and ''Rugrats''. Gaffney has had a long and varied career, much of it in children's animation. He is co-creator (with Gábor Csupó) of the series ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters''. Gaffney was born in Endicott, New York, the son of computer pioneer John Frederick Gaffney and Carol Crandall Gaffney. He went to Harvard University, where he was a vice-president and an editor of the ''Harvard Lampoon''. He graduated with an honors degree in Folklore & Mythology. After a brief stint in advertising in Southern California he moved back to New York to become an editor of '' National Lampoon''. Subsequently, Gaffney spent five years as a writer and creative consultant for MTV. His main job was helping to create MTV's award-winning promo campaigns, but he also wrote the ''MTV Video Music Awards'' and live programming from events like spring break and Mardi Gras. After MTV, Gaffney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters'' is an American animated television series developed by Klasky Csupo for Nickelodeon. It is the fifth Nicktoons, Nicktoon after ''Doug (TV series), Doug'', ''Rugrats'', ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' and ''Rocko's Modern Life''. The show focuses on three young monsters—Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm—who attend a school for monsters under a city dump and learn to frighten humans. Many of the episodes revolve around their zany hijinks after making it to the surface in order to perform "scares" as class assignments. The series premiered on October 29, 1994, and aired until November 16, 1997. Plot The episodes follow the suspense of Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm, three young monster friends attending a monster school whose headmaster is The Gromble. The show is set in New York City where monsters co-exist with humans, demonstrated throughout the series by the presences of the Empire State Building and the Independent Subway System, IND Subway System, and in the episod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Murray (animator)
Joseph David Murray (born May 3, 1961) is an American animator, illustrator, writer, producer, and director. He is best known as the creator of Nickelodeon's '' Rocko's Modern Life,'' Cartoon Network's ''Camp Lazlo'', and PBS Kids' '' Let's Go Luna!.'' Murray is the winner of two Primetime Emmy Awards for ''Camp Lazlo'' and the TV film '' Camp Lazlo: Where's Lazlo?.'' Early life Born and raised in San Jose, California,Bio ," ''Joe Murray Studio'' Joe Murray said that he developed an interest in working as an artist as a career when he was three years old, but his father didn't approve. According to Murray, his teacher told his mother that he was the only student who drew zippers on pants and breasts on women. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocko's Modern Life
''Rocko's Modern Life'' is an American Television comedy, comedy animated television series created by Joe Murray (animator), Joe Murray for Nickelodeon. The series centers on the surreal life of an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic Australian immigrant wallaby named Rocko and his friends: the eccentric steer Heffer Wolfe, the neurotic turtle Filburt Shellbach, Filburt, and Rocko's faithful dog Spunky (Rocko's Modern Life), Spunky. It is set in the fictional town of O-Town. Throughout its run to present day, the series has been controversial for its adult humor, including double entendres, innuendos, and satirical social commentary, helping pave the way for adult animation and earning a cult following, akin to ''The Ren & Stimpy Show.'' Murray created the title character for an unpublished comic book series in the late 1980s, and later reluctantly pitched the series to Nickelodeon, which was looking for edgier cartoonists for its then-new Nicktoons. The network gave the staff a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spümcø
Spümcø, Inc. ( ; stylized as SPÜMCØ) was an American animation studio that was active from 1989 to 2005 and based in Los Angeles, California. The studio was best known for working on the first two seasons of ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' for Nickelodeon and for various commercials. The studio won several awards, including an Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject for the music video of the song " I Miss You" by Björk. Spümcø was founded by animators John Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, Jim Smith and Lynne Naylor. Kricfalusi named the company after the fictional person "Raymond Spüm", whom he jokingly described as the inventor of animation. The golden age of American animation (exemplified by the 1940s cartoons by Bob Clampett and Tex Avery) served as inspiration for the surreal and highly expressive house style of which Spümcø became well known. History Origins In the 1980s, animators John Kricfalusi and Lynne Naylor attempted to sell original cartoon ideas while work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kricfalusi
Michael John Kricfalusi ( ; born September 9, 1955), known professionally as John K., is a Canadian illustrator, blogger, and former animator and voice actor. He is the creator of the animated television series ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', which was highly influential on televised animation during the 1990s. From 1989 to 1992, he was heavily involved with the first two seasons of the show in virtually every aspect of its production, including providing the voice of Ren Höek and other characters. In 2009, he won the Inkpot Award. Born in Quebec, Kricfalusi spent his early childhood in Germany and Belgium before returning to Canada at age seven. He acquired his skills largely by copying cartoons from newspapers and comic books as a child, and by studying cartoons and their production systems from the 1940s and 1950s. His main influence is Bob Clampett. After moving to Los Angeles in 1978, he collaborated with Ralph Bakshi and worked for Filmation, Hanna-Barbera, and DIC Entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
