Type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Animation |
Founded | 1986 |
Products | Television Movies |
Parent | Viacom Media Networks (merger with CBS Corporation pending) |
MTV Animation is the animation department of the television network MTV.
History[]
MTV's animation department was established in the late 1980s, when it made several of the animated shorts that aired as bumpers for the network. While MTV department is often grouped with that of Nickelodeon's, the two entities are completely separate. Most of MTV's cartoons are known for their dark humor, sexual jokes, graphic violence, pop culture references, and irreverence.
In an interview for the Beavis and Butt-Head Do America DVD, Mike Judge described MTV Animation as being very ad hoc: Beavis and Butt-Head didn't have an art director until the film was made, so until the film they'd never considered colour palettes from scene to scene. In the same interview, art director Yvette Kaplan said "everything was overlapping... we never had the luxury of one part [episode] finished" before another episode was finished.[1]
Many MTV animation productions do not survive a single season and in some cases are canceled before completion. Productions including Undergrads, Downtown, and Clone High have been highly acclaimed, yet none of them got renewed beyond their first season, usually due to lack of an audience or advertising. By 2001, the animation department was shut down, with the network's animated series now being outsourced to different studios. During the 2000s, MTV would phase out of producing original animation in favor of importing shows, usually reruns of shows from sister networks Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.
In 2011, MTV would return to adult animation. Its first production was a relaunch of Beavis and Butt-head, which premiered in October 2011; this was quickly followed by Good Vibes, starting later in the same month. In November 2011, MTV said they plan a third cartoon, Worst Friends Forever by Thomas Middleditch, that Mike Judge would produce, about three teenage girls who hover on the outskirts of popularity and have to cope with cattiness and crushes; a pilot had been picked up and concept art of the characters was released.[2] The cartoons did not do as expected though. Good Vibes was cancelled in February 2012 due to low ratings, on the same day the DVD came out,[3] Beavis and Butt-head was cancelled in December 2011, and Worst Friends Forever never aired. In a September 2012 interview on "Making It With Riki Lindhome", Middleditch said Worst Friends was "for all intents and purposes done" and "not in my hands anymore". [4] Mike Judge said in January 2014 that he might pitch Beavis and Butt-head to another network.[5]
Productions[]
1980s[]
Title | Creator/Developer(s) | Premiere date | Finale date | Co-production with | Note(s) |
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Stevie and Zoya | Joe Horne | 1987 | 1989 |
1990s[]
Title | Creator/Developer(s) | Premiere date | Finale date | Co-production with | Note(s) |
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Liquid Television | Japhet Asher | June 2, 1991 May 15, 2014 |
March 6, 1994 June 12, 2014 |
Original series: (Colossal) Pictures BIG Pictures Noyes & Laybourne Enterprises BBC Enterprises Revival series: Titmouse, Inc. |
Revived for the internet in 2014. |
Æon Flux | Peter Chung | September 1991 | October 10, 1995 | (Colossal) Pictures | Spun-off from Liquid Television. |
Beavis and Butt-Head | Mike Judge | March 8, 1993; October 27, 2011 |
November 28, 1997; December 29, 2011 |
J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. (Season 1) Tenth Annual Industries (Season 2–7) Ternion Pictures (Season 8) Inbred Jed's Homemade Cartoons (Pilot only) Film Roman (Season 8) Judgemental Films |
Spun-off from Liquid Television. Created by Mike Judge, creator of King of the Hill. |
The Brothers Grunt | Danny Antonucci | August 15, 1994 | April 9, 1995 | a.k.a. Cartoon | Created by Danny Antonucci, creator of Ed, Edd n Eddy. |
The Head | Eric Fogel | September 1, 1994 | March 1, 1996 | ||
The Maxx | Original character: Sam Kieth Series: Sam Kieth Bill Messner-Loebs |
April 8, 1995 | June 19, 1995 | Based on the comic book series of the same name. | |
Daria | Glenn Eichler Susie Lewis |
March 3, 1997 | June 25, 2001 | Tenth Annual Industries | Spun-off from Beavis and Butt-Head. |
Cartoon Sushi | Danny Antonucci Keith Alcorn |
1997 | 1998 | DNA Productions a.k.a. Cartoon |
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Celebrity Deathmatch | Eric Fogel | May 14, 1998; June 10, 2006 |
October 20, 2002; March 30, 2007 |
Cuppa Coffee Studios (2006–07) | |
Station Zero | 1999 | Spun-off from Beavis and Butt-Head. | |||
Downtown | Chris Prynoski George Krstic Anne D. Berstein |
August 3, 1999 | November 8, 1999 |
2000s[]
Title | Creator/Developer(s) | Premiere date | Finale date | Co-production with | Note(s) |
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Spy Groove | Michael Gans Richard Register |
June 26, 2000 | July 13, 2002 | ||
Undergrads | Pete Williams | April 1, 2001 | August 12, 2001 | Click Productions Decode Entertainment Helix Animation Teletoon Original Production |
First MTV cartoon co-produced with Teletoon. |
Clone High | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Bill Lawerance |
November 2, 2002 | April 13, 2003 | Doozer Lord Miller Productions Nelvana Touchstone Television Teletoon Original Production |
Second MTV cartoon co-produced with Teletoon. |
3 South | Mark Hentemann Steve Callaghan |
November 7, 2002 | January 16, 2003 | Warner Bros. Animation | |
Video Mods | Tony Shiff | September 16, 2004 | July 22, 2005 | Big Bear Entertainment IBC Entertainment |
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Wonder Showzen | Vernon Chatman and John Lee | March 11, 2005 | May 19, 2006 | PFFR Augenblick Studios |
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Where My Dogs At? | Aaron Matthew Lee and Jeff Ross | June 10, 2006 | July 29, 2006 | Enough With The Bread Already Productions Six Point Harness |
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The Adventures of Chico and Guapo | Orlando Jones, P. J. Pesce, and Paul D'Acri | June 10, 2006 | July 29, 2006 | One Red Room | |
Alejo & Valentina | Alejandro Szykula | 2006 | 2010 | ||
Friday: The Animated Series | Ice Cube | June 24, 2007 | July 8, 2007 | New Line Television Cubevision |
Adapted from the Friday film series. |
DJ & the Fro | Dave Jeser Matt Silverstein |
June 15, 2009 | July 2, 2009 | Double Hemm | |
Popzilla | R.J. Fried Tim Hedrick Jared Miller Kevin Pedersen Dave Thomas |
September 27, 2009 | October 16, 2009 | Animax Entertainment |
2010s[]
Title | Creator/Developer(s) | Premiere date | Finale date | Co-production with | Note(s) |
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Good Vibes | David Gordon Green Brad Ableson Mike Clements |
October 27, 2011 | December 29, 2011 | Werner Entertainment Rough House Not the QB Pro. Six Point Harness Good Humor Television |
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Greatest Party Story Ever | January 14, 2016 | December 22, 2016 | Four Peaks Media Group Den of Thieves ShadowMachine |
References[]
- ↑ Beavis and Butt-head Do America DVD (2006 version): Making Of feature
- ↑ TV Guide: "Exclusive: MTV Developing Another Animated Series with Beavis and Butt-head Producers"
- ↑ Deadline: Animated Comedy ‘Good Vibes’ Cancelled By MTV After One Season
- ↑ Making It #61: Thomas Middleditch, 58:25 to 59:09
- ↑ "Mike Judge: 'Beavis and Butt-Head' Trapped in Limbo". CraveOnline. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
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Paramount Animation | ||
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Feature films | Released | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) • Monster Trucks (2016 • Sherlock Gnomes (2018) • Wonder Park (2019) |
Upcoming | The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge (2020) • Rumble (2020) • Luck (2021) • The Tiger's Apprentice (2022) • Jersey Crabs (2022) | |
Related animation studios | Comedy Central Films • Fleischer Studios (Bray Productions • Famous Studios) • MTV Films (MTV Animation) • Nickelodeon Movies (Nickelodeon Animation Studio • Nick Digital) • Rainbow (Bardel Entertainment) • Terrytoons |
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Companies/studios | Active | 21st Century Fox (20th Century Fox Animation • Blue Sky Studios • Fox Television Animation) • Ace & Son • Augenblick Studios • Bento Box Entertainment • The Curiosity Company • DHX Media (WildBrain) • Disney (Disney Television Animation • DisneyToon Studios • Industrial Light & Magic • Lucasfilm Animation • Marvel Animation • Pixar Animation Studios • Walt Disney Animation Studios) • Film Roman • Floyd County Productions • Frederator Studios (Frederator Films) • Fuzzy Door Productions • Golden Films • Hasbro (Hasbro Studios) • Jim Henson's Creature Shop • Kinofilm • Klasky Csupo • Laika • Little Airplane Productions • Man of Action Studios • Marza Animation Planet • Mattel (Hot Animation) • Mexopolis • Mondo Media (6 Point Harness) • NBCUniversal (DreamWorks Animation • Big Idea Entertainment • DreamWorks Classics • Harvey Entertainment • Jay Ward Productions • Illumination Entertainment • Universal Animation Studios • PorchLight Entertainment • Radical Axis • Reel FX Creative Studios • Renegade Animation • Rough Draft Studios • ShadowMachine • Sony Pictures (Adelaide Productions • Sony Pictures Animation • Sony Pictures Imageworks) • Splash Entertainment • Sprite Animation Studios • Spümcø • Stoopid Monkey • Time Warner (Cartoon Network Studios • Warner Bros. Animation • Williams Street) • Titmouse, Inc. • United Plankton Pictures • Vanguard Animation • Viacom (MTV Animation • Nick Digital • Nickelodeon Animation Studio • Paramount Animation) • World Events Productions |
Defunct | 70/30 Productions • Amblimation • Animation Collective • Animation Lab • Animation Magic • Cartoon Pizza • Circle 7 Animation • Cookie Jar Group • Crest Animation Productions • Curious Pictures • DePatie-Freleng Enterprises • DIC Entertainment • DNA Productions • Famous Studios • Filmation • Fleischer Studios • Fox Animation Studios • Hanna-Barbera • Jetlag Productions • Kroyer Films • Laugh-O-Gram Studio • Marvel Productions • MGM-Pathé Communications • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation • MGM Animation/Visual Arts • MGM Cartoons) • Pacific Data Images • Rankin/Bass Productions • Ruby-Spears • Screen Gems Cartoons • Skellington Productions • Soup2Nuts • Sullivan Bluth Studios • Sunbow Entertainment • Terrytoons • United Productions of America • Van Beuren Studios • Walter Lantz Productions • Warner Bros. Cartoons • Will Vinton Studios • Williams Street West | |
Industry associations | The Animation Guild, I.A.T.S.E. Local 839 • ASIFA-Hollywood | |
Awards | Academy Awards • Annie Award • Daytime Emmy Award • Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards • Primetime Emmy Award | |
History | Silent era • Golden age (World War II) • Television era • Modern era | |
Genres | Animated Infomercial • Animated sitcom • Buddy film • Comedy-drama • Superhero fiction • Western | |
Related topics | American Comics (History of American comics • Tijuana bible) • Humorous Phases of Funny Faces • Flash animation |