Lucasfilm Animation
Subsidiary Limited liability company | |
Industry | Animation, computer-generated imagery |
Founded | 2003 |
Founder | George Lucas |
Headquarters |
Letterman Digital Arts Center San Francisco, California, United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Parent |
Lucasfilm (The Walt Disney Company) |
Website |
lucasfilm |
Lucasfilm Animation Ltd. LLC[1] was an animation studio founded in 2003. Its first major production was the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and its spin-off feature film. Following the acquisition of Lucasfilm by The Walt Disney Company, over 100 animation personnel at Big Rock Ranch were released with a minimum group retained to oversee outsource development on the animated series Star Wars: Rebels. LAL is currently headquartered in the LDAC campus in San Francisco, Ca. as a division of Disney and remains 'Lucasfilm Animation' in name only. The company was not involved in the production of the Star Wars LEGO shorts; the primary production company for Star Wars Rebels, CGCG, was one of those productions' main vendors.
Lucasfilm Animation Singapore
Originally founded in 2004 in Singapore as a means to tap into the diverse global talent pool, Lucasfilm Animation Singapore (LAS) officially opened its doors in October 2005. LAS works closely with Lucasfilm Animation. Boasting an infrastructure that promotes efficient integration and creative collaboration, the LAS production schedule also includes contributions to projects from other Lucasfilm companies. While the largest of LAS’ production groups focused on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, in July 2006 LAS announced the creation of the Game Group and the Digital Artists Group (DAG). With difficulty in meeting the technical and aesthetic requirements of Clone Wars, LAS was ultimately removed from the production and released a number of employees.
The Game Group developed and announced Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Jedi Alliance on the Nintendo DS in 2008.
R2-D2 is featured in the company logo at the end of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
The Digital Artists Group serves both as an extension of Industrial Light & Magic, contributing to ILM's work on feature film visual effects. Previously, LAS supported LucasArts’ video game productions as well as Lucasfilm Animation.
In November 2007, Lucasfilm Animation Singapore launched the Jedi Masters Program, a paid apprenticeship providing talented young artists with mentorship opportunities from industry professionals at ILM, LucasArts and Lucasfilm Animation. The Jedi Masters Program has classroom facilities within the Singapore studio and combines classroom instruction with mentored work in an actual production environment.
Due to its old building being saturated, Lucasfilm Singapore moved into a new building at the beginning of 2014.[2][3]
List of Lucasfilm Animation productions
Feature films
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) (released by Warner Bros. Pictures)
- Strange Magic (2015) was in initial development for a span of a decade under various producer and director combinations, none of which could bring the project to fruition. The film gained some footing and was put through to completion at Industrial Light & Magic.
Short films
- Lego Star Wars shorts for Cartoon Network:
- Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick (2008) for Cartoon Network
- Lego Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles (2014) for Disney XD
Television series
- Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003–2005) for Cartoon Network
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2014) for Cartoon Network and Netflix
- Star Wars Rebels (2014–present)[4] for Disney XD
- Star Wars Detours (TBA)[5]
Television specials
- Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (2014) for Disney Channel and Disney XD
- Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion (2014) for Disney Channel and Disney XD
- Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal (2015) for Disney XD
References
- ↑ "Business Entity Detail: LUCASFILM ANIMATION LTD. LLC (search on Entity Number: 201233810027)". California Business Search. Califorina Secretary of State. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
- ↑ Lucasfilm’s Sandcrawler Building Opens in Singapore
- ↑ Lucasfilm's Industrial Light + Magic Exploring Opening New Facility in Vancouver, The Hollywood Reporter
- ↑ "New Animated Series Star Wars Rebels Coming Fall 2014". StarWars.com. May 20, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
- ↑ "New Star Wars Animated Series in the Work". comingsoon.net. April 5, 2010. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
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