Columbia TriStar Feature Animation

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Columbia TriStar Feature Animation
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Entertainment
Fate	Closed and renamed to Sony Pictures Animation, then later revived.
Founder(s)	Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
Defunct	April 2002
Headquarters	Burbank, California, United States
Key people	John Pomeroy
Products	Animated feature films
Employees	~900
Owner(s)	Sony Pictures Entertainment

Columbia TriStar Feature Animation is an American animation/creative development company, located at Burbank, California and had many other animation studios around the world. Columbia Pictures Feature Animation was renamed to Columbia TriStar Feature Animation in 1989 and was later closed in 2002, but was revived later in 2010 for producing Sony's 2D animated projects.

Units

• Columbia TriStar MiniCartoons, an animation sub-studio which made occasional CGI-animated/traditionally animated shorts and direct-to-video films, located in Glendale, California, founded in 1990. Closed in 2001.
  • Columbia Tristar MiniCartoons Australia, located in Sydney, Australia and Melbourne, Australia. Closed in 1998.
  • Columbia TriStar MiniCartoons France, located in Paris, France. Closed in 1997.
  • Columbia TriStar MiniCartoons Singapore, located in Singapore, Singapore. Closed in 1996.
• Columbia TriStar Computer Graphics Animation, a CGI animation/character animation studio which made CGI-animated films and a satellite studio of/a joint venture between Columbia TriStar Interactive and Sony Pictures Imageworks, located in Shanghai, China and Burbank, California. Merged to main studio in 1995, while Sony Pictures Imageworks was bought by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
  • Sony Pictures Imageworks, a subsidiary of Columbia TriStar CGA, which made character animations and visual effects, located in Vancouver (Canada), Culver City, California and Chennai, India. Chennai studio was closed in 1994 and the studio sold to Sony Pictures in 1995.

Projects

The film or a video game name marked as italic are cancelled for some reasons or was completed by other studio(s).

• American Pop (1981)
• Stuart Little (1999)
• The Monster House (started production in January 2002, 3 months prior the closing, production finished in 2006)
• Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002; co-animated with and finished by Yowza! Animation & A. Film A/S)
• The Universe of Davey Guy The Movie (started production in 1999, to be finished in 2018, animation transferred, edited and finished by Working Animation; visual effects and minor animation)
• Guysurgent (2014)
• Summer Vacation (2015)
• The Big and Random Gladewater Movie! (2018, production orignally made at A. Film A/S and RandomWorks)

Gallery

Columbia TriStar MiniCartoons

Columbia Tristar MiniCartoons Australia

Columbia TriStar MiniCartoons France

Columbia TriStar MiniCartoons Singapore

Columbia TriStar Computer Graphics Animation