Geo Animation Studios

Geo Animation Studios, LLC. (formerly known as Jakelsm Animation) is an Irish-American CGI animation studio founded on September 18, 1990 by Jake Sharratt, later the creator of World of Jake. It is owned since 1991 by Paramount Pictures and based in New York, USA. The company is known for the well-recognized Greenuts series, as well as their contributions to an episode of The Jan and Jason Show (Alevy/Film Roman/Fox). The studio's first feature film Greenuts was released in 1993, followed by two sequels which included Greenuts 2: The 2nd Film Begins (1997) and Greenuts 3: The 10th Geo Animation Studios Film (2007). A fourth film, Greenuts 4: A New Beginning, is set to be released in 2015. Greenuts 2 marks the first time that the studio made a sequel. Other work includes Vegetables and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends film series.

Jakelsm Animation
Before Jake Sharratt, the creator of World of Jake started Geo Animation Studios in 1990, Jake Sharratt created a animation studio named Jakelsm Animation in 1988 right after Sharratt created Jakelsm Home Entertainment. In 1990, However, it was renamed to Geo Animation Studios.

Paramount Pictures
By October 1991, a deal was announced positioning Geo as Paramount’s family entertainment arm (later in 1994 Viacom) that would produce one to two films a year starting in 1993. It is co-owned by Paramount who exclusively distributes the films. Geo's first film Greenuts was released on November 17, 1993. It has since then been solely focused on animated features.

In 1996, Geo's second film Under the Blue Sea was released in theatres November 12, 1996.

In 1997, Geo's third film Greenuts 2: The 2nd Film Begins was released in theatres November 29, 1997, it's sequel to Greenuts.

For Paramount's 90th anniversary, Geo made a Paramount logo in 2002 with puffy clouds. For Paramount Pictures's 100th anniversary, Geo did a new Paramount Pictures logo with an extra stars. This logo was first seen on Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.

Lix FX
In the summer of 1998, Lix FX as the old animation company has a two splits from the visual effects the new company named "Geo Lix FX" is the all new animation studios.

Tj's World reboot
Geo G., the creator of Geo's World, said that the company was going to make the reboot of the Tj's World film series, titled Tj's World (since Paramount owns both Geo and the Tj's World movies), respectively. But TjsWorld2011/Tjdrum2000 said it was actually TjsWorld2011 Pictures who would be doing it. The film was later cancelled in August 2012.

Upcoming projects
Geo Animation Studios is currently working on Gerald McBoing-Boing (2014), and more. and has many other projects in development, including Crash Bandicoot and Balloon 2: The Adventures Begin and a reboot to the Greenuts film series.

Feature films
Released films

Upcoming films

Films in development

Cancelled movies

 * For the full list, see List of cancelled Geo Animation Studios projects.


 * The Simpsons (Moved to TCF)
 * South Park
 * BallCone 
 * Dead Lead 2
 * The Animals 
 * Samurai Jack
 * The Land of the Earth 
 * Under the Blue Sea 2 
 * Red 2
 * Dexter's Laboratory
 * Johnny Test
 * Ico

Contributions

 * The Jan and Jason Show (1990) – 3D Jan, Jason and objects in the episode 3D Jan and Jason

Theme park attractions
While Geo Animation Studios has never had its own theme park, theme parks have made rides based on Geo films and co-productions.
 * Greenuts Land, a children's area at Paramount Canada's Wonderland (now Canada's Wonderland).
 * Greenuts: The Fun Ride, a simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida. Also existed at Universal Studios Hollywood.
 * Under the Blue Sea: Boat Ride, a water ride at Universal Studios Japan.

Trivia

 * The characters from Greenuts eventually turn out being their company's mascots.
 * The name for the company came from the show Geo's World.