Colossal Pictures
| Industry | Media |
|---|---|
| Fate | Folded into Wildbrain |
| Successor | Wildbrain |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Defunct | 1999 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
Key people |
Drew Takahashi Gary Gutierrez Japhet Asher |
| Products |
animation stop-motion computer graphics special effects interactive live action |
Colossal Pictures (styled (Colossal) Pictures) was an entertainment company[1] that developed and produced television programming, network branding, and film titles.
Founded in 1976, Colossal Pictures' clients included Coca-Cola, Nickelodeon, Starbucks Coffee, Disney, Discovery Channel, Denny's, Americast, Samsung, Microsoft, MTV, Cartoon Network, Broderbund, Nike, Sega, AT&T, Honda, Hershey's, Listerine, Hasbro Interactive, Time Warner, Paramount, Pizza Hut, Apple, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Turner Entertainment and just about every major network cable and television company.
History
In 1976, three men named Drew Takahashi, Nicholas Judy, and Gary Gutierrez created a company named (Colossal) Pictures. It became well known in the 1980s and 1990s for its innovative design work. Its clients included MTV, Nickelodeon, Disney, and Coca-Cola.
In 1995, they started losing money from an exhibit the company made for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Click 3X, a post-production company they often worked with. In 1996, the company underwent Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Due to profits the company got from trying to work on projects, they emerged for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Winter 1997.
In 1999, the company closed. Meanwhile, Ed Bell, Charlie Canfield, and George Evelyn folded it into Wildbrain.
Work
Shorts, shows and opening titles
- Magic Journeys (animation) (1982)
- Cat & Mouse At (the) Home (short film) (1983)
- Top Gun intro (1986)
- The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley (1988)[2]
- Saturday Night Live (main title) (1990)
- Liquid Television (1991–1994)
- Adventures in Wonderland (main title) (1991)
- The Moxy Show (1993–1997)
- The Flying Dutchman (unfinished movie) (1994)
- Living Books: Ruff's Bone (1995)
- ZOOB (short film) (1996)
- Frankenguy and his Professor (interstitial for Playhouse Disney, 1997)
- Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress (logo animation) (1997)
- Super Chunk (show packaging) (1997)
- Dubden (mixtape) (1997)
- Showtime Championship Boxing (main title) (1998)
- The Mix-ups (interstitial for Disney Channel, 1998)
- Zoog Disney (first season only; second season produced by Wildbrain) (1998–1999)
Commercials and branding
- MTV (1981-1988)
- Levi's
- Disney Channel (1984-1988)
- Nickelodeon (1985-1987)
- Listerine
- Life Savers
- Game Boy
- American Express
- Nick at Nite
- Nintendo Power
- Nike
- TNT
- Sonic 2
- Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins
- Honda
- Hershey's
- Super Mario Kart
- NYNEX
- Pizza Hut
- Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3
- Sega
- TV5 bumpers
- Honda
- Nike
- Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!
- Hardee's
- Channel V
- Perrier
- Shuttle by United
- Coca-Cola
- Starbucks Coffee
- Turner Classic Movies
- Locomotion (1997)
- Discovery Kids (1997)
- Nickelodeon (1998)
- Alpha Bits