DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.
Type	Public (NYSE: DWA)
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Glendale, California Redwood City, California, United States
Key people	Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chief Executive Officer Roger Enrico, Chairman Lew Coleman, President
Industry	Animated films
Website	dreamworksanimation.com

DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NYSE: DWA) is an independent American animation studio, producing primarily feature animated films. It was formed by the merger of the feature animation division of DreamWorks SKG and Pacific Data Images (PDI). Originally formed under the banner of DreamWorks SKG, it was spun-off into a separate public company in 2004. Image File history File links Dreamworks_Animation_logo. ... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... Nickname: Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ... Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. ... Jeffrey Katzenberg (born December 21, 1950 in New York City) is an American film producer and Chief Executive Officer of DreamWorks Animation SKG. He is perhaps most famous for his period as studio chairman at The Walt Disney Company, and for producing the movie Shrek (2001). ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... Animation studios Animation Studios, like Movie Studios may be production facilities, or financial entities. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... The DreamWorks Boy on the Moon Logo DreamWorks SKG (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen) is a Big Ten studio in the United States of America which develops, produces, and distributes films, music, and television programming. ... Pacific Data Images was a computer animation production company that was bought by DreamWorks SKG. It is now known as PDI/DreamWorks and is half of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. ... This article is about the film studio. ...

Some of its most known films include Shrek, Shark Tale, Madagascar and Over the Hedge. Shark Tale is an Academy Award-nominated computer-animated film produced by DreamWorks Animation, and released in 2004. ... Over the Hedge is a computer-animated film based on the United Media comic strip of the same name. ...

They are currently distributed only through Paramount Pictures (in turn owned by Viacom) who acquired the rest of DreamWorks SKG in February of 2006. DreamWorks Animation maintains two studios: the original DreamWorks feature animation studio in Glendale, California and the PDI studio in Redwood City, California in the Silicon Valley region. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... Viacom (NYSE: VIA) (NYSE: VIAb) is an American media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks (MTV Networks and BET), and movie production and distribution (the Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks movie studios). ... Nickname: Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ... Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. ... For the Nintendo 64 game, see Space Station Silicon Valley. ...

History

Early years

In 1980, Pacific Data Images was founded by Carl Rosendahl with a small loan from his father. In 1982, he was joined by Richard Chuang and Glenn Entis, who wrote the foundation of the in-house computer animation software that was to be used for the next two decades. During the 1980s, PDI created many animated logos and commercials for television for companies like NBC and Sky Movies. They shifted into motion picture visual effects beginning in 1991 with a contribution to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. This article is about the television network. ... Sky Movies is the collective name for the British premium subscription television movie channels operated by Sky Television, later British Sky Broadcasting. ... Terminator 2: Judgment Day (commonly abbreviated T2) is a 1991 movie directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Robert Patrick. ...

In 1997, DreamWorks SKG was formed and founded by a trio of entertainment players, director and producer Steven Spielberg, music executive David Geffen, and former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. DreamWorks signed a co-production deal with PDI to form subsidiary PDI, LLC (PDI owned 60% of PDI, LLC while DreamWorks SKG owned 40%). The new unit 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. Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. ... David Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer, philanthropist. ... Disney redirects here. ... Jeffrey Katzenberg (born December 21, 1950 in New York City) is an American film producer and Chief Executive Officer of DreamWorks Animation SKG. He is perhaps most famous for his period as studio chairman at The Walt Disney Company, and for producing the movie Shrek (2001). ... Antz is a 1998 computer-animated film produced by DreamWorks. ... The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 Academy Award-winning American animated film, the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks. ...

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.

Today

Since 2004, DreamWorks Animation is dedicated solely to producing CG animated films in-house. No more traditional 2D animation is expected.

DreamWorks Animation also had a partnership with Aardman Animations, a stop-motion animation company in Bristol, England. This partnership had DreamWorks participating in the produciton of stop-motion films in Bristol, and also had Aardman participating in some of the CG films made in the US. This partnership ended after the release of Flushed Away in November 2006; the announcement was made before the film's release, on October 3, citing "creative differences" as the reason. [1] Aardman Animations, Ltd. ... A stop motion animation of a moving coin. ... Flushed Away is a computer animated British film directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell. ... is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Also since 2004, the company has committed itself to make two computer-animated feature films a year.

The logo, adapted from the parent studio's logo, consists of a boy fishing on the moon, against a backdrop of the daytime sky albeit with more colorful lettering. The soundtrack of this logo was originally an adaptation of the DreamWorks theme; however, following the global success of Shrek in 2001, this became an shortened adaptation of True Love's First Kiss (the Love Theme from the Shrek soundtrack), composed by John Powell. For other uses, see Shrek (disambiguation). ... For the geologist and U.S. explorer, see John Wesley Powell, for the Mayor of Toronto see John Powell (politician). ...

Board of Directors

The PDI/DreamWorks Studio in Redwood City, California

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• Roger Enrico, Chairman of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.
• Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chief Executive Officer of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.
• Paul Allen, Chairman of Vulcan Inc.
• David Geffen, Co-Founder of DreamWorks
• Lew Coleman, President of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.
• Mellody Hobson, President of Ariel Capital Management
• Nathan Myhrvold, Chief Executive Officer of Intellectual Ventures
• Howard Schultz, Chairman and Chief Global Strategist of Starbucks Corporation
• Meg Whitman, President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay, Inc.
• Judson Green, President and Chief Executive Officer of NAVTEQ
• Michael Montgomery, President of Montgomery & Co.
• Karl von der Heyden, retired Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Pepsico, Inc.

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Films and series

Traditionally-animated films

Note: All traditionally animated films were made at the Glendale studio.

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Stop-motion films

Note: All stop-motion films were produced by Aardman. Aardman Animations is a British stop motion animation studio founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton in 1972. ...

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Computer-animated films

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Upcoming computer animated films

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• Kung Fu Panda (June 6, 2008) (Glendale, in production)
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (November 7, 2008) (PDI, in production)
• Monsters vs. Aliens (March 27, 2009) (Glendale, in production)
• How to Train Your Dragon (March 26, 2010) (Glendale, in production)
• Shrek Goes Fourth (May 21, 2010)
• Master Mind (November 5, 2010)
• Puss In Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer (2011)
• Shrek 5 (2013)

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TV Specials

• Shrek the Halls (2007)
• Shrek or Treat (2010)

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Short films

• Shrek 4-D (2003) (PDI, ride film for Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Movie World)
• Far Far Away Idol (2004) (November 5, 2004)
• The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper (October 30, 2005) (PDI)
• First Flight (May 19, 2006) (Glendale)
• Hammy's Boomerang Adventure (October 19, 2006) (Glendale)

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Traditionally-animated television series

• Toonsylvania (February 7, 1998-December 1, 1998)
• Invasion America (June 8, 1998-July 7, 1998)

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Computer-animated television series

• Father of the Pride (August 31, 2004-May 27, 2005)
• Kung Fu Panda (TV series) (under development for Nickelodeon [2])
• Penguins! (under development for Nickelodeon [3])

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Sources

History

• History of Pacific Data Images
• DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. 2004 Annual Report (PDF file)

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External links

• Official site
• DreamWorks Animation at the Internet Movie Database