Nickelodeon Animation Studio is an American animation studio owned by Paramount Global. It has created many original television programs for Nickelodeon, such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents, Rugrats, The Modifyers, and Avatar: The Last Airbender, among various others. Since the 2010s, the studio has also co-developed its own series based on preexisting IPs purchased by Paramount Global, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Winx Club. In November 2019, Nickelodeon Animation Studio signed a multiple-year output deal for Netflix, which will include producing content, in both new and preexisting IP, for the streaming platform.
The studio was founded in 1990, originally named Games Productions Inc. and later Games Animation. It oversaw the production of three animated programs for Nickelodeon: Doug, Rugrats, and The Ren & Stimpy Show. In 1992, Nickelodeon began work on Games Animation's first fully in-house series, Rocko's Modern Life. Games Animation produced much of the network's mid-1990s output in partnership with other animation companies like Klasky Csupo. In 1998, the studio moved from Studio City, California to Burbank with the construction of a new facility. It was renamed Nickelodeon Animation Studio and later Nickelodeon Studios Burbank. In 1999, a second facility in New York City was opened, named Nickelodeon Animation Studio New York.
List of animated programs co-produced by DreamWorks Animation Television[]
Most of the following shows were spun off from DreamWorks Animation's franchises and some are original to the channel. While they were co-produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Paramoumt Global owns half of each show's rights, Nickelodeon has excluded them (except Catscratch, The Legend of Josse, The Modifyers, Team Umizoomi and the half of copyright rights to Animal City) from their Nicktoons lineup since 2016, when DreamWorks Studios was purchased by NBCUniversal and stopped licensing their characters to Nickelodeon.
- Catscratch (2005-2007)
- Sailor Cat and Sailor Fish (2005-2013; moved to Netflix from 2013 to 2018)
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- Animal City (2006-2021)
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- The Legend of Josse (2007-2010)
- The Modifyers (2007-2014)
- Zoo Tales (2008-2015; revived as a Netflix series from 2018 to 2020)
- Team Umizoomi (2009-2014)
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- T.U.F.F. Puppy (2010-2015)
- Kung Fu Panda: Legend of Awesomeness (2011-2016)
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- Monsters vs. Aliens (2013-2014)
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