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Wang Film Productions
aka: Cuckoos Nest Studio
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Wang Film Productions: Serving practically everyone under the face of the sun since 1978. Wang Film Productions (formerly known as Cuckoo's Nest Studio; Also known as Thai Wang and in Chinese as Hong Guangnote Both are actually separately credited studios, though still one and the same; serving as Wang's Thailand and Chinese satellite studios, respectively. Their credits are listed here for obvious reasons.) is a Taiwanese studio founded in 1978 by former Hanna-Barbera employee James Wang as a means for the company to their animation to (when the technique was still relatively unheard of at the time). Since its founding, Wang has worked with and/or for several companies like Warner Bros., Disney, Nelvana, Klasky-Csupo, Film Roman, Universal, Kennedy Cartoons, Toon City and Studio Pierrot (among others). Through them, they have done animation for shows and movies made in the North America, Europe and Asia. Their main claim to fame, though, is being used by a large number of shows. The Other Wiki, in fact, has a list of their works about a mile long . The works below are just scraping the surface. Wang also owns a CG company ( creatively named CGCG), founded in 1988 (Originally independent, they've been partners with Wang since 1998) with studios in both Xiaman and Japan. Like Wang, the company's not only done CG work on their productions, but they've also done All-CGI Cartoon work on their own (and likewise being used by everyone; including Xebec, LEGO, Sunrise, Square Enix, Lucasfilm, Toei and above-mentioned studios Nelvana, Disney, Warner Bros. and Universal). In addition, Hong Ying is generally considered an offshoot, having started out getting extra Wang work. Compare (and contrast) AKOM, TMS Entertainment, Toei Animation, Fil-Cartoons, Saerom, Sunwoo Entertainment, Dong Woo Animation, Synergy Animation, Hanho Heung Up, Rough Draft Studios and the aforementioned Toon City. Their partners for many of the shows listed below.
Side note - the amount of work both Wang and CGCG did is staggering. The following three folders consist of an (almost) complete filmography between them. Shows and TV Specials Disney- 101 Dalmatians: The Series (11 episodes; Some as sub-contractor for Toon City.)
- Aladdin (TV series only; 14 episodes) List "Armored and Dangerous", "The Day the Bird Stood Still", "Dune Quixote", "Elemental, My Dear Jasmine", "The Love Bug", "My Fair Aladdin", "The Prophet Motive", "Sea No Evil", "Seems Like Old Crimes Parts 1 & 2", "Smells Like Trouble", "To Cure a Thief", "The Vapor Chase", "The Web of Fear"
- American Dragon Jake Long
- Bonkers (4 episodes) List "The Rubber Room Song", "O Cartoon! My Cartoon!", "If", "Goldijitters and the Three Bobcats"
- Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command (10 episodes) List "The Torque Armada", "Gravitina", "Inside Job", "The Beasts of Karn", "Mindwarp", "Panic on Bathyos", "Stress Test", "Super Nova", "The Slayer", "Bunzel Fever"
- Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers (16 episodes) List "An Elephant Never suspects", "The Luck Stops Here", "Fake Me to Your Leader", "Last Train to Cashville", "Case of The Cola Cult", "Throw Mummy From The Train", "A Wolf In Cheap Clothing", "Prehistoric Fly", "Robocat", "Seer No Evil", "Chocolate Chips", "The Last Leprechaun", "Double O' Chipmunk", "It's a Bird, It's Insane, It's Dale!", "Short Order Crooks", "Out of Scale"
- Darkwing Duck (3 episodes) List "The Darkwing Squad", "Inside Binkie's Brain, "Slime Okay, You're Okay"
- Dave The Barbarian
- DuckTales (Late season 1; All of seasons 2 & 3)
- The Emperors New School
- Fillmore (All of season 1; most of season 2)
- Gargoyles (2 episodes) List "Enter Macbeth"; support work for "Awakening Part 2" for WDAJ
- Goof Troop (9 episodesList "Buddy Building", "Tee for Two", "Pistolgeist" "Calling All Goofs", "Where There's a Will, There's a Goof", "Rally Round The Goof", "Mrs.Spoonerville", "Frankengoof", "Terminal Pete"; also provided ink & paint for four Kennedy episodes List ("Counterfeit Goof", "Cabana Fever", "Lethal Goofin'", and "Hot Air") and twoList ("To Catch a Goof and "The Good,The Bad & the Goofy") for Walt Disney Animation France)
- Hercules: The Series
- The Legend Of Tarzan (12 episodes)List "Fountain", "Rift", "Giant Beatles", "Protege", "Rough Rider", "Seeds of Destruction", "Silver Ape", "Outbreak", "Silver Screen", "Lost Treasure", "Mysterious Visitor", "Volcanic Diamond Mines"
- Lilo And Stitch The Series (numerous episodes; as well as Leroy and Stitch)
- The Little Mermaid
- The Mighty Ducks (2 episodes)List "Dungeons and Ducks", "Puck Fiction"
- The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Later episodes)
- Winnie the Pooh: Boo To You Too! (additional services for Toon City)
- Quack Pack
- The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show
- Raw Toonage
- The Replacements
- Phineas And Ferb (several episodes and the Christmas special)
- Tale Spin (8 episodes) List "Bearly Alive", "On a Wing and a Bear", "The Bigger They Are, The Louder They Oink", "The Old Man and The Sea Duck", "Molly Jolly Christmas", "Waiders Of The Wost Tweasure", "Sheepskin Deep", "Mach One For The Gipper"
- Teachers Pet (the series)
- Timon And Pumbaa
- The Weekenders
- W.I.T.C.H. (First season with Hong Ying, replaced by Dong Woo in the second)
Hanna-BarberaOther- Animaniacs (87 shorts, plus a handful of bumpers)
- Around The World With Willy Fog (1990 series)
- Baby Looney Tunes
- Back To The Future
- Beetlejuice
- Bobby's World
- Care Bears (Nelvana TV series)
- Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
- Clifford the Big Red Dog (1980s specials)
- The Comic Strip
- David The Gnome
- Detention
- Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds (1990 series)
- Eek The Cat
- Fantastic Four (First season)
- Fievel's American Tails
- Garfield and Friends
- Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats (Uncredited)
- Hey Arnold! (First season only)
- Hulk Hogans Rock N Wrestling (with Hanho and Studio Shaft)
- Inspector Gadget (First season; with TMS, AIC, Ajia Do, Oh Production & an uncredited Toeinote and rotating photography duties with Asahi Production and T. Nishimura, as Cuckoo's Nest. Was also a co-producer.)
- Kidd Video (Season One; as Cuckoo's Nest)
- Lazer Tag Academy
- The Little Lulu Show
- Littlest Pet Shop (1995) (with AKOM and KK C&D Asia)
- The Mask (First season only)
- Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
- My Little Pony G3
- New Kids on the Block (Cartoon)
- The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil
- Ni Hao Kai Lan
- Ozzy And Drix
- Peanuts: Two specialsList "It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown", "You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown!"
- Peter Pan & the Pirates (Two episodesList "Slightly in Stone", "Wee Problem")
- Random Cartoons (Multiple shorts)
- The Real Ghostbusters (With other studioslist Toei, TMS, Trans Arts, Dai Won, Sei Young, Saerom/Plus One Animation, Studio Korumi, Hanho Heung Up and KK C&D Asia)
- The Ren & Stimpy Show ("Lair of the Lummox", "Cheesefist" bumper, and "It's a Dog's Life/Egg Yolkeo" only)
- Rescue Heroes (originally, replaced by AKOM)
- Rugrats (First season only, also helped on the pilot episode; credited as Cuckoo's Nest in the latter)
- Sagwa The Chinese Siamese Cat (rather fitting, considering the setting)
- Star Wars: Ewoks
- Street Sharks
- Stripperella (With Mook DLE and Sunmin)
- Tales From The Crypt Keeper (ABC Seasons)
- Taz Mania
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (uncredited)
- Tiny Toon Adventures (38 episodes List "The Looney Beginning" (with Kennedy Cartoons), "Looking Out For the Little Guy", "Starting From Scratch", "Hare-Raising Night", "The ACME Acres Zone", "Rock 'n Roar", "Prom-ise Her Anything", "You Asked For It", "Citizen Max", "Wake Up Call of the Wild", "Europe in 30 Minutes", "Spring in ACME Acres", "Psychic Fun-omenon Day", "Career Oppor-toon-ities", "Dating, ACME Acres Style", "Ask Mr. Popular", "Mr. Popular's Rules of Cool", "Fairy Tales For the '90s", "The Return of the ACME Acres Zone", "Viewer Mail Day", "Here's Hamton", "No Toon Is an Island", "K-ACME TV", "Going Places", "New Class Day", "Flea For Your Life", "Buster's Directorial Debut" (with Cuckoo's Nest), "Toon TV", "The Horror of Slumber Party Mountain" (with Cuckoo's Nest), "Weekday Afternoon Live" (with Cuckoo's Nest), "Spring Break Special" - 30 episodes solo, Ink & Paint and camera services on seven Kennedy Cartoons episodesList "Strange Tales of Weird Science" (uncredited), "Inside Plucky Duck", "Son of Looniversity Daze", "Son of the Wacko World of Sports", "Polution Solution", "You Asked For It Again", "How Sweetie it is", "New Character Day" (Episode miscredited), "High Toon". Footage from "K-ACME TV" was recycled into the TMS-animated "Take Elmyra, Please")
- Transformers: Go-Bots
- The Twisted Tales Of Felix The Cat
- Whats New Scooby Doo (Season 1 and Christmas Special)
- Winx Club
CGCG Movies - Bebes Kids
- The Bionicle movies (Co-producers for the original trilogy, animation for all films done by CGCG)
- The Brave Little Toaster
- The Care Bears Movie (With Hanho)
- Go-Bots: Battle of The Rock Lords
- Devilman (Live-Action Adaptation, CGCG)
- FernGully: The Last Rainforest (alongside Rough Draft, Hanho, Saerom, A. Film, Available Light Productions, and Luk-Film (Among others), and the only studio from the original kept around for Ferngully 2)
- Heavy Metal 2000 (Backgrounds, In-Between Animation)
- How to Hook Up Your Home Theater (Special Thanks)
- Jetsons: The Movie
- Joseph King Of Dreams
- The Land Before Time (Movies VII-XII)
- Leroy and Stitch
- The Little Troll Prince
- Once Upon A Forest
- The Pagemaster (Animated portion; movie done with Pacific Title, Cinesite, 4-Ward Productions, Perpetual Motion Pictures and others).
- Phineas And Ferb The Movie Across The2nd Dimension (With Synergy and Hong Ying)
- Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (Additional CGI, CGCG)
- Pound Puppies: The Legend of Big Paw
- Return to Neverland (with Disney's Australian and Canadian units)
- Resident Evil Degeneration (Production Cooperation, CGCG)
- Rover Dangerfield (With Hanho, Available Light and Rhythm And Hues)
- Scooby Doo And The Ghoul School
- The Thief And The Cobbler - They only did Ink & Paint and thus doesn't quite shoulder the weight that the other studios do. But are a still guilty party nonetheless (especially because all of the original animation drawings sent to the Thai studio were destroyed).
- TRON - Yes, you read that correctly, as Cuckoo's Nest.
- Rankin/Bass Productions' The Wind in the Willows
- Xin shu shan jian ke (With Visual Concept Engeneering)
- YuYu Hakusho: The Movie (additional animation)
Video Games All credits for CGCG unless noted:
Tropes Associated with Wang and CGCG include - All-CGI Cartoon: The Bionicle films, Fanboy and Chum Chum, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Most, if not all of CGCG's output actually.
- Animation Bump: Fairly often, particularly in The Brave Little Toaster and Animaniacs
- Animesque: Some of their works (W.I.T.C.H. and Winx Club, mostly). The fact that they worked on the sequel series to both Willy Fog & Dogtanian, Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie, three Final Fantasy games and Dino Breaker (the latter three through CGCG) among others, helps.
- Conspicuous CG: The Land Before Time sequels take this to levels beyond our understanding.
- The Dark Age of Animation: Established during this period.
- Deranged Animation: There's several shows containing this, but The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat and Courage the Cowardly Dog are the best examples.
- I Have Many Names: As mentioned at the top of the page.
- International Co Production: Inspector Gadget, Transformers: Go-Bots The Bionicle films, The Brave Little Toaster and most of their Hanna-Barbara work.
- Limited Animation: Most of their Hanna-Barbera projects for the most part. Carried over to the majority of their other 80s work due to those connections. They got better during the 90s.
- No Flow in CGI: Played straight often in CGCG's works. TRON and FernGully also to an extent (CG was done in America for both however).
- Medium Blending: Featured in The Land Before Time sequels they did. Also present in TRON, Courage, Winx Club, The Pagemaster, Ferngully, The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, Bionicle 3 (Albeit as an effects screw-up), Dino Breaker, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (not directly though) and Phineas and Ferb (occasionally).
- Motion Capture: Xcalibur. Some scenes in Bionicle: The Legend Reborn also contain this.
- Off Model: The less talked about the Pound Puppies movie, the better. This also occurs in many of their other projects (usually with Ink & Paint), including a surprisingly inconsistent first season of Tiny Toon Adventures (although for the other two seasons, It Got Better). This also happened in all of their 101 Dalmatians: The Series episodes.
- Parodied in the Garfield & Friends segment "Mistakes Will Happen".
- The Renaissance Age of Animation: The vast majority of their work comes from this era.
- Shout Out: To CGCG in The Legend Reborn in Matoran languagenote : It's in the laboratory scene.
- Thick-Line Animation: The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil. They also went through a period of this during the TTA era (mainly season one). Their Ren and Stimpy work tended to suffer from this as well.
- Tron Lines: TRON obviously.
- Troubled Production: The New Kids On The Block cartoon and Hulk Hogans Rock N Wrestling.
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