DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NASDAQ: DWA) is an American producer of animated films and television series, previously a division of DreamWorks SKG. It was spun-off into a separate company in 2004, but its content is still distributed by DreamWorks SKG.
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History
In 1980 Carl Rosendahl, Glenn Entis, and Richard Chuang founded computer animation production company Pacific Data Images (also know as PDI). During the 1980's, PDI created many animated logos and commercials for television. They shifted into motion picture visual effects beginning in 1991 with a contribution to Terminator 2: Judgement Day. In 1997 DreamWorks SKG signed a co-production deal with PDI to form PDI's subsidiary PDI LLC (PDI owned 60% of PDI LLC while DreamWorks SKG owned 40%). PDI LLC would produce computer-generated feature films beginning with Antz in 1998. In the same year DreamWorks SKG produced The Prince of Egypt using traditional animation techniques. In 2000 DreamWorks SKG created a new business division DreamWorks Animation that would regularly produce both types of animated feature films. The traditionally animated feature films were produced by the division's Southern California branch. DreamWorks SKG acquired majority interest (90%) in PDI , reforming it into PDI/DreamWorks, the Northern California branch of its new business division. The business division separated from its parent in 2004, forming DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. and purchasing the remaining interest in PDI as well as its subsidiary PDI LLC.
Films and television series
- The Prince of Egypt (1998)
- Antz (1998)
- The Road to El Dorado (2000)
- Chicken Run (2000)
- Shrek (2001)
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
- Father of the Pride (television series) (2004-2005)
- Shrek 2 (2004)
- Shark Tale (2004)
- Madagascar (2005)
- Flushed Away (in production)