History Creator / Amblimation

Amblimation was the short-lived animation production arm of Creator/StevenSpielberg's Creator/AmblinEntertainment that was active from [[TheNineties 1991 until about 1997]], formed with the animation staff from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Spielberg created the animation studio after parting ways with Creator/DonBluth, and a lot of the latter's influence can be seen in Amblimation's character designs. Despite their lavish animation, even when compared to what Disney was putting out at the time, none of the films were critically or commercially successful and the studio closed after only three films and a couple of TV specials.

The company's {{mascot}} was Fievel Mousekewitz from the ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' series, who appears in its production logo. Given that he's both [[MickeyMouse a mouse]], the main character of Spielberg's first entrance into animation and a character that had some personal relevance to Spielberg (being named after his grandfather), it's not hard to see why Fievel was chosen.

The feature animation studio was located in London, England, UK. In 1997, the London studio was shut down and some of the Amblimation staff moved on to Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. After the London studio was shut down, all references with Amblimation became Amblin Entertainment. Today, [=DreamWorks=] Animation is somewhat of a spiritual successor to Amblimation (it's more obvious in [=DreamWorks=]' early 2D animated films), and has had far more success. They were also closely associated with Creator/{{Universal}} Cartoon Studios, with which they co-produced ''A Wish for Wings that Work'' and ''Fievel's American Tails'' and produced a few DirectToVideo sequels to ''Balto'', though it mainly had its own thing going on.

* DerangedAnimation: The animators were very good at zany and over-the-top character animation.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: As mentioned above, since a lot of the animators at Amblimation previously worked with Don Bluth, there is some obvious influence in a lot of the designs. For instance, [[WesternAnimation/WereBackADinosaursStory Rex and Woog's feral forms]] look a lot like [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime Sharptooth and Cera's father]], respectively. Also, a lot of the minor dog characters in ''{{WesternAnimation/Balto}}'' look like they came straight out of ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'', and Steele's habit of constantly grinning makes him resemble [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH Jenner]].

* ArtShift: ''Balto'''s animation looks a lot more flat than the heavily shaded character animation of ''Fievel Goes West'' and ''We're Back''.

Amblimation was a short-lived animation production arm of Creator/StevenSpielberg's Creator/AmblinEntertainment that was active from [[TheNineties 1991 until about 1997]], formed with the animation staff from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Spielberg created the animation studio after parting ways with Creator/DonBluth, and a lot of the latter's influence can be seen in Amblimation's character designs. Despite their lavish animation, even when compared to what Disney was putting out at the time, none of the films were critically or commercially successful and the studio closed after only three films and a couple of TV specials.

The feature animation studio was located in London, England, UK. In 1997, the London studio was shut down and some of the Amblimation staff moved on to Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. After the London studio was shut down, all references with Amblimation became Amblin Entertainment. Today Creator/DreamWorksAnimation is somewhat of a spiritual successor to Amblimation (it's more obvious in [=DreamWorks=]' early 2D animated films), and has had far more success. They were also closely associated with Creator/{{Universal}} Cartoon Studios, with which they co-produced ''A Wish for Wings that Work'' and ''Fievel's American Tails'' and produced a few DTV sequels to ''Balto'', though it mainly had its own thing going on.

The feature animation studio was located in London, England, UK. In 1997, the London studio was shut down and some of the Amblimation staff moved on to Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. After the London studio was shut down, all references with Amblimation became Amblin Entertainment. Today Creator/DreamWorksAnimation is somewhat of a spiritual successor to Amblimation (it's more obvious in [=DreamWorks=]' early 2D animated films), and has had far more success. They were also closely associated with Creator/{{Universal}} Cartoon Studios, with which they co-produced ''A Wish for Wings that Work'' and ''Fievel's American Tails'' and produced a few DTV sequels to ''Balto'', though it mainly had it's own thing going on.

* ''WesternAnimation/AWishForWingsThatWork''

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest All]] [[WereBackADinosaursStory three]] [[{{WesternAnimation/Balto}} of]] their films had a very obvious "good guy versus bad guy" conflict.

* ''Fievel's American Tails'' (TV Series, produced along with Creator/{{Nelvana}})

Amblimation was a short-lived animation production arm of Creator/StevenSpielberg's Creator/AmblinEntertainment that was active from [[TheNineties 1991 until about 1997]], formed with the animation staff from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Spielberg created the animation studio after parting ways with Creator/DonBluth. Despite their lavish animation, even when compared to what Disney was putting out at the time, none of the films were critically or commercially successful and the studio closed after only three films and a couple of TV specials.

* DerengedAnimation: The animators were very good at zany and over-the-top character animation.

* SceneryPorn: A ''lot'' of effort was put into the backgrounds of their films.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** A film adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' was in the works but the concept was scrapped after the studio closed.
** An early form of the film ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' was in the works at this studio but was picked up by Creator/DreamWorksAnimation instead

Amblimation was a short-lived animation production arm of Creator/StevenSpielberg's AmblinEntertainment that was active from [[TheNineties 1991 until about 1997]], formed with the animation staff from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Spielberg created the animation studio after parting ways with Creator/DonBluth. Despite their lavish animation, even when compared to what Disney was putting out at the time, none of the films were critically or commercially successful and the studio closed after only three films and a couple of TV specials.

The feature animation studio was located in London, England, UK. In 1997, the London studio was shut down and some of the Amblimation staff moved on to Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. After the London studio was shut down, all references with Amblimation became Amblin Entertainment. Today Creator/DreamWorksAnimation is somewhat of a spiritual successor to Amblimation (it's more obvious in Dreamworks' early 2D animated films), and has had far more success. They were also closely associated with Creator/{{Universal}} Cartoon Studios, with which they co-produced ''A Wish for Wings that Work'' and ''Fievel's American Tails'' and produced a few DTV sequels to ''Balto'', though it mainly had it's own thing going on.

** An early form of the film ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' was in the works at this studio but was picked up by Creator/DreamWorksAnimation insted

** A film adaptation of Cats was in the works but the concept was scrapped after the studio closed.

Amblimation was a short-lived animation production arm of Creator/StevenSpielberg's AmblinEntertainment, and it was active from [[TheNineties 1991 until about 1997]], formed with the animation staff from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Spielberg created the animation studio after parting ways with Creator/DonBluth. Despite their lavish animation, even when compared to what Disney was putting out at the time, none of the films were critically or commercially successful and the studio closed after only three films and a couple of TV specials.

** An early form of the film Shrek was in the works at this studio but was picked up by Creator/DreamWorksAnimation insted

** An early form of the film ''Film/Shrek'' was in the works at this studio but was picked up by Dreamworks insted

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'''Amblimation''' was a short-lived animation production arm of Creator/StevenSpielberg's AmblinEntertainment, and it was active from [[TheNineties 1991 until about 1997]], formed with the animation staff from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Spielberg created the animation studio after parting ways with Creator/DonBluth. Despite their lavish animation, even when compared to what Disney was putting out at the time, none of the films were critically or commercially successful and the studio closed after only three films and a couple of TV specials.

The feature animation studio was located in London, England, UK. In 1997, the London studio was shut down and some of the Amblimation staff moved on to Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. After the London studio was shut down, all references with Amblimation became Amblin Entertainment. Today Creator/DreamWorksAnimation is somewhat of a spiritual successor to Amblimation (it's more obvious in Dreamworks' early 2D animated films), and has had far more success.

* WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest
* WesternAnimation/AWishForWingsThatWork
* Fievel's American Tails (TV Series, produced along with Creator/WangFilmProductions)
* WesternAnimation/WereBackADinosaursStory
* WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}

* [[WereBackADinosaursStory We're Back! A Dinosaur Story]]

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* WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West
* AWishForWingsThatWork

'''Amblimation''' was the animation production arm of Creator/StevenSpielberg's AmblinEntertainment, and it was active from [[TheNineties 1991 until about 1997]]. Spielberg created the animation studio after parting ways with Creator/DonBluth. One could almost say it was responsible for the animation in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', though the film was produced before the studio officially became an independent production arm of Amblin. While unfortunately none of the films released did exceptionally well at the box office, they were all very lavishly animated, even when compared to what Disney was putting out at the time.

* Fievel's American Tails (TV Series, produced along with WangFilmProductions)