STUDIOS OLD AND NEW DRAW ON THE VALLEY.Byline: Amy Dawes Daily News Film Writer Ever since Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney broke ground on his Burbank studio in 1939, the animation industry has more or less made itself at home in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . Disney founded the California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. campus in Valencia in 1961 as a training ground for future Disney animators. Since then, nearly all the major studios and independent companies involved in animation have taken root in the area. Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . put its new feature animation facilities in Glendale and television animation in Sherman Oaks. DreamWorks SKG SKG Stichting Kwaliteit Gevelbouw (Dutch) SKG Spielberg, Katzenberg,and Geffen (DreamWorks Studios) SKG Thessaloniki, Greece - Thessaloniki (Airport Code) SKG Smith and Kraus Global located its new feature and television animation divisions in Universal City. Film Roman, home of ``The Simpsons'' and ``King of the Hill,'' is in North Hollywood. Nickelodeon's Nicktoons is in Studio City. ``To animators, there's a magic about the Valley,'' said Aaron Berger, an animation talent agent based in Valencia. ``All of the legends - Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Walt Disney - did their work here. The roots and the history are here. I think that if DreamWorks had located their animation studios in Playa playa or pan or flat or dry lake Flat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. Vista, the animators would not have gone there.'' ``The world of animation really does reside in the Valley,'' said Terry Thoren, whose Klasky-Csupo is in the heart of Hollywood but draws most of its animators from the Valley. ``It's where most of the greatest animation talent in the world either lives or works.'' Other Valley-based animation companies include SmartKey, Hyperion, Galaxy World and Class 6 in Glendale; Ruby-Spears, DIC DIC diffuse intravascular coagulation; disseminated intravascular coagulation. DIC abbr. disseminated intravascular coagulation Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) , Nest, Chiodo Brothers, Renegade, Jim James and Fred Wolf in Burbank; Stribling Productions and the Calvert Co. in North Hollywood; and Invision and JetLag in Sherman Oaks. Also, Gunther/Wahl in Encino; TSi Inc. in Reseda; Baer Animation, MTM Enterprises and Imaginamation in Studio City; Calico/IFI and the Imagination Factory in Chatsworth; and the Lion's Den in Northridge. Also, Toon Makers in North Hills; Tooniversal and Mike Young in Woodland Hills; L.A. Animation and Krislin in Calabasas; DreamQuest in Simi Valley; and Encore Enterprises in Valencia. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: ``Quit Smoking'' is one of the recent classic animated shorts. |
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