Draft:Nelvana Studios
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer animation Motion pictures Television |
| Predecessor | Pacific Data Images Blue Sky Studios Disneytoon Studios |
| Founded | March 20, 2025 |
| Founder | Chris Meledandri Bruce Anderson Mary Ellen Bauder Andrews |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Pete Docter (head of animation) Shannon Jeffries (president) Andrew Woodhouse (CCO) |
| Products | Animation production Animated films |
| Owner | Universal Animation Studios Paramount Animation Warner Bros. Animation Sony Pictures Animation 20th Century Animation MGM Animation Studios |
| Parent | Corus Entertainment |
Nelvana Studios was an American visual effects and computer animation studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was founded on March 20, 2025, by Chris Meledandri, Bruce Anderson and Mary Ellen Bauder Andrews, Connecticut the Greenwich branch was originally Blue Sky Studios.
History
[edit]In March 2025, Nelvana formed an studios division and a multi-year partnership with Greenwich, Connecticut-based animation studio Blue Sky Studios. Nelvana Studios hired former Illumination and DreamWorks Animation CCO Chris Meledandri as producer. The following month, long time Pixar director Pete Docter was announced to have joined Nelvana Studios to develop and produce an original animated film for the studio. Bruce Anderson and Mary Ellen Bauder Andrews, who previously served as Nelvana's Head of Production, was promoted to the position of president at Nelvana Studios.
Nelvana Studios signed on directors Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc., Up and Inside Out) to direct Maggie and the Ferocious Beast: The Movie, Chris Renaud (Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets and Sing) to direct Super Why! the Movie, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs. the Machines) to direct Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Planet of the Grapes and The Chuck's Choice Movie, Genndy Tartakovsky (Hotel Transylvania) and Cory Edwards to direct Sinbad: Revenge of the Eris!, Hoodwinked Three! the Fellowship of the Hood, Star vs. the Forces of Evil the Movie and Alvin and the Chimpunks!, Erica Rivinoja and Alessandro Carloni to directors Marvin the Top-Dancing Horse, Kirk DeMicco (Vivo and Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken) to directors The Amphibia Movie, Tony Leondis (Igor and The Emoji Movie) to direct Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese and The Emoji Movie 2: Get Down, George Miller to directors Happy Feet Three, Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland (Storks) to directors Esme & Roy, Chris Miller (Shrek the Third, Puss in Boots and The Smurfs Movie) to direct Go Away, Unicorn! and Kevin Asbury and Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2, Monsters vs. Aliens, Sausage Party, The Addams Family and The Addams Family 2) to directors The Tangerine Bear.