Wachtenheim/Marianetti Animation (also known as W/M Animation) is an American animation studio founded by David Wachtenheim and Robert Marianetti in 1999. The duo has worked separately as prominent creative forces with various animation studios in New York and Los Angeles during the last twenty years and have combined their talents into an award winning full service animation studio located in New York City.
Shortly after it's inception, the studio was best known for animating Saturday Night Live's Saturday TV Funhouse segments, made by Robert Smigel, for over 9 seasons and (alongside J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc.) have continued to have a long and creative relationship with Smigel beyond SNL, most recently as directors on the Netflix animated film Leo, with W/M Animation working on the Creative Closing Credits of the film.
Shows and films worked on by Wachtenheim/Marianetti:
- Cartoon Network Wedgies (Big Baby shorts)
- Leo (end title sequence)
- My Depression
- Saturday Night Live (46 Saturday TV Funhouse segments)List "The All-New Adventures of Mr. T: A Doll's House" (with Tapehouse Toons), "The Life of a Catch Phrase" (with Tapehouse Toons), "The All New Adventures of Mr. T: Actors Strike" (with Tapehouse Toons), "Fun with Real Audio: Sex and the Country", "Ray of Light", "The Anatominals Show: Kogi Bear", "The Michael Jackson Show", "The 700 Club", "The X-Presidents: Hunt for Osama" (with Tapehouse Toons), "Fun with Real Audio: Colin Powell on MTV", "Fun with Real Audio: Oscars' Greatest Moments", "The Anatominals Show: Kogi Bear's Picnic", "Bambi 2002", "The Smurfette Show", "The Religetables" (with Hornet Inc.), "A Charlie Brown Christmas", "The X-Presidents: Iraq 2003", "Are You Hot?", "Saddam and Osama", "Cokee, the Most Expensive Dog in the World", "Yankee Super-Heroes", "Fun with Real Audio: George W. Bush", "Fun with Real Audio: Access Hollywood", "Cartoons and Your Government", "Pothead Theater", "The X-Presidents: Election Meddling", "Fun with Real Audio: John McCain", "The Homocranial Mind Mixer", "Shazzang", "Divertor" (with 8 Hats High Animation), "Celebrity Mugshot Poker", "Darwin", "Belated Black History Moments", "Journey to the Disney Vault", "Fun with Real Audio: Presidential Outtakes", "Republican Attack Ads", "Kobayashi", "Diddy Kiddies", "Fun with Real Audio: Frontline: 2007 Year in Review", "Maraka", "Torboto", "Tales From The Greatest Generation", "Decision '08: Spring Cleaning '07", "First Served, First Come", "The Obama Files", "The Ambiguously Gay Duo: The Dark, Clenched Hole of Evil" (with J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc.)
- Sesame Street (2 segments)List "Kangaroo K", "Queen Quagmire Q"
- Elmo Visits the Doctor (with Celefex and Magnetic Dreams)
- Kids' Favorite Country Songs (with Magnetic Dreams, Augenblick Studios, Mustapha Khan Productions and Imagination Inc.)
- Typewriter shorts for the "Old School: Volume 2" DVD set
- Stroker and Hoop (with Studio B Productions and 8 Hats High)
- TV Funhouse (4 shorts)List "Stedman", "Captain Marginal", "Wonderman", "Picasso"
