Animation Station

Pushing Boundaries with Drawn Lines and Moving Pics

What was once considered a cinematic distraction for younger children has blossomed into a medium that's overly creative and emotionally sound as any live-action film aimed at old folks.

Your challenge is to find an animated feature film, whether it includes drawn lines, computerized pixels or manipulated puppets, or even something shorter in length, to watch with a brand new perspective or watch again with the same wonder as the first time seen.

Pixar Studios - Shorts

A collection of animated shorts, Pixar began creating digital shorts in the 1980's. The first shorts were made while Pixar was still a computer hardware company, when John Lasseter was the only professional animator in the small animation department. Beginning with A Bug's Life, Pixar has created extra content for each of their films that is not part of the main story.

Here is a short collection featuring some of their earlier pieces put together.

~ approximately 20 minutes in length ~

Dreamworks Animation

An animation studio based under Universal Pictures, the company has released a total of 37 films, giving us a number of well known characters, including Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, and the Trolls franchises.

Here is a short history of the evolution of Dreamworks Animation studios.

~ approximately 18 minutes in length ~

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