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DreamWorks Animation SKG

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

Founded: DreamWorks SKG was founded in 1994.
Founder: Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen collaborated to form this studio.
About the Company: Dreamworks Animation SKG, primarly led by Katzenberg, is the highly successful, animation-oriented subdivision of Dreamworks SKG. It has plans in the future to split off from the primary company to become its own publicly traded company of DreamWorks Animation, Inc. While DreamWorks is a fairly recent addition to the animation industry, it has skyrocketed to become a major player, competing with several other shining newcomers.
Recent Works:
  • Fatal Frame: The Movie (2004)
  • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
  • Shark Tale (2004)
  • Shrek 2 (2004)
  • Tusker (2004)
  • Seabiscuit (2003)
  • Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
  • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
  • The Tuxedo (2002)
  • The Time Machine (2002)
  • Shrek (2001)
  • Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
  • Chicken Run (2000)
  • The Road to El Dorado (2000)
  • Antz (1998)
  • The Prince of Egypt (1998)
  • Small Soldiers (1998)
Company History:

DreamWorks SKG was formed in 1994 as a diversified entertainment company, with interests in film, animation, television, and music. Its animation division, headed by Jeffrey Katzenberg, has developed into a CG animation studio with locations in Northern and Southern California, as well as several international production facilities.

While DreamWorks has been producing films for a decade, including animated smashes such as 1998's Antz and Small Soldiers, 2001 marked its biggest success in the record-breaking film Shrek, which won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Its sequel broke box office records to become the top animated film of all time, and ensure DreamWorks' name in animation history.

DreamWorks has recently opened a new CG animation facility in Glendale, California, where the movie Shark Tale was created. This movie marks DreamWorks as the first animation studio to ever release two wholly computer-animated films in a single year.

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