PPP presentation: Cartoon Network Studios

Recently we were asked to prepare a presentation about a studio we would like to work in. I chose Cartoon Network studios for a few reasons:

•  The direction that the new CN generation is taking with their animated series is really breath taking for me. All these creative minds like Rebecca Sugar, Pen Ward, JG Quintel working under one roof, makes me wish I could rub shoulders with such people one day. 

• CN studios allows this creative freedom which really comes through in the artists work. As a result Cartoon Network studios now manages to attract attention from a wider range of audience.

• Quite a few animated series are made on Flash and animating on Flash would be one of my strenghts now.

 
So Here is Some Research Ive done about the studio and its history:

-The studio began on October 21, 1994 at 7:00am as a division of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc., which was then focused on producing Cartoons for Cartoon Network: Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, and The Powerpuff Girls.

-In 1997, the division's productions credited them as their parent studio Hanna-Barbera.

-In 1999, Cartoon Network Studios acquired its own facility located at 300 N 3rd St in Burbank, California. The site was the location of a telephone communications equipment building.

 

This photograph is the last all-studio portrait taken at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. Time Warner had bought Turner Broadcasting (owner of HB) and folded the studio into Warner Bros. Animation. WBA chief Jean MacCurdy made the decision to fold HB.  Cartoon Network Studios was then revived as a separate entity from Hanna-Barbera, growing out of the animation studio.

 

Cartoon Network Studios has continued to steadily grow with productions such as Samurai Jack and newer productions such as Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Uncle Grandpa. Some of Cartoon Network Studios' former programming now rerun on Cartoon Network's sister channel, Boomerang.

 

Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe is a British animation studio based in London.  It is the European equivalent to Cartoon Network Studios,

It was founded in early 2007 and is owned by Turner Broadcasting System Europe.

 

 

During the presentation I also talked abou Matt Forsythe (Lead designer for Adventure Time)  and his talk in Creative Networks, and how he talked about the producers in Cartoon Network being really hands off with the creative processes.
I also mentioned that I stalk and worship all these CN creatives on social media (people like JQ Quintel, Pen Ward, Mike Roth, Rebecca Sugar) and my tutor adviced me to try an contact them. I intend to do that in the near future!