Creator / Tonic DNA

Tonic DNA (formerly known as Studio Pascal Blais) is a Canadian animation studio based in Montreal. It was established in 1987 by Pascal Blais (who has since left the studio) and Bernard Lajoie. It also has offices in Toronto and Mexico. They specialize in both 2D and 3D animation, as well as CGI, stop motion and VFX work. The company was later renamed to its current name in 2019.

For film and TV, the studio mastered the art of making big and small screen magic, crafting compelling stories and iconic characters for feature films, short films and series. Their most used client is Warner Bros. since Tonic animated several episodes of Looney Tunes Cartoons, Green Eggs and Ham and Animaniacs to massively fluid results. Tonic is well known among the animation community as having some of the best animation outside of Disney since The Golden Age of Animation (like with TMS Entertainment, Carbunkle Cartoons, Richard Williams, Don Bluth, Studio Ghibli, StarToons and studios founded by Ex-TMS staff members like Walt Disney Animation Japan and Spectrum Animation).

Compare Titmouse, Digital eMation, Yowza! Animation, Snipple Animation and Studio Mir, studios which Warner Bros. also currently uses for their productions.

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Shows and films worked on by Tonic DNA:

• Animaniacs (2 shorts)^List "Here Comes Treble", "A Zit!" (both with Giant Ant)
• The Bob's Burgers Movie (with Bento Box, Mercury Filmworks, Synergy Animation, Yeson Entertainment, Brilliant Pictures Group, Nørlum ApS, Lighthouse Studios, Mighty Animation, Golden Wolf and Dave Enterprises)
• Building the Inuit Homeland
• Central Park (22 episodes, with Yearim Productions and Yeson Entertainment)^List "Episode One", "Skater's Circle", "Central Dark", "Of Course You Realize This Means Ward", "Fista Puffs Mets Out Justice", "Mother's Daze", "Down to the Underwire", "The Shadow", "A Decent Proposal", "Sir Bricks-A-Lot", "A Star is Owen", "A Boat-iful Mind", "Bee is for Brandenham", "The PAIGE-riarchy!", "Castle Sweet Castle", "Celeste We Forget", "The Ballad of Johnnie Lee", "Where There's Smoke", "The Lyin' in Winter"
• C'était le 12 du 12 et Chili avait les blues
• Creep School (set construction and camera services; with Animation Service (HK) and Lux Animation)
• Dans le Ventre du Dragon
• DC Super Hero Girls (for Bardel Entertainment)
• Disenchanted (2D animation)
• Freebird
• Green Eggs and Ham (5 episodes and 3 promos, with Chromosphere and Deluxe Animation Studios)^List "Here" (with Folimage and Snipple Animation), "Box", "Rain", "There" (with Snipple), "Anywhere" (with Snipple and Yowza! Animation)
• Hemingway: A Portrait
• How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
• Looney Tunes Cartoons (5 shorts)^List "Dynamite Dance", "Big League Beast", "Puma Problems", "Bugs Bunny's Howl-O-Skreem Spooktacular", "Skyscraper Scrap"
• Matusalem
• Men in Black
• The Old Lady and the Pigeons (with Les Armateurs)
• The Old Man and the Sea (1999 short)
• Pinocchio: A Modern Retelling
• Space Jam: A New Legacy (with Industrial Light & Magic, Company 3 Animation, Cinesite and Luma Pictures)
• Super Speedway
• Tales for All
  • Bye Bye Red Riding Hood
  • The Great Land of Small
  • The Peanut Butter Solution
  • Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller

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Tropes associated with Tonic DNA:

• Animation Bump: Possibly one of the most popular cases of this trope.
• Production Posse: Warner Bros. and Bento Box frequently used them.

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