Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal, has owned and operated several animation studios since the company acquired NBCUniversal (formed on August 2, 2004) in 2011 and took complete control by 2013.
Its flagship feature animation studio, Universal Animation Studios through Universal Pictures, outputs television, direct-to-video, and animated feature film releases. Currently, Comcast also operates Illumination and DreamWorks Animation as part of the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. This article does not include other animation studios whose films were released by only Universal Pictures but don't own.
Founded in 1991, Universal Animation Studios (formally Universal Cartoon Studios) is the primary animation division of Universal Pictures.[2]
Amblimation was a British animation studio subsidiary of Amblin Entertainment[3][4] founded by Steven Spielberg in May 1989. During its run, the studio only produced three feature films, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991), We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993) and Balto (1995), all composed by James Horner and distributed by Universal Pictures. Amblimation's mascot was Fievel Mousekewitz. Before the studio reached a close, its crew members joined DreamWorks Animation[1][5] (which had been co-founded by Spielberg in 1994), and it closed in 1997.[6]