Geo Animation Studios

Geo Animation Studios, LLC. (formerly known as Jakelsm Animation) is an 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) and the 2002 movie Greeny Phatom The Movie (Fox/Sony).

The studio's first feature film Greenuts was released on November 17, 1993. Their most financially successful movie to date is Vegetables in 2012.

History
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.

By 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.

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.

In 2000, Viacom sold 26% of the studio to News Corporation, where Geo Animation Studios began work for a scene from Greeny Phatom The Movie when The Toy activates its Japanese mode (directed by Geo G. with assistance with the GPTM crew) and the credits, as well as GreenyWorld: The Gree Guy Assault, which are the studio's only non-Paramount projects. Both films were produced by Sony Wonder and 20th Century Fox.

For Paramount's 90th anniversary, Geo made a Paramount logo in 2002 with puffy clouds.

In 2003, following the failure of GreenyWorld: The Gree Guy Assault, News Corporation sold their interest of Geo Animation Studios to The Walt Disney Company, the owners of World of Jake. Then, some of Geo Animation Studio's flims were distributed internationally by Walt Disney Pictures and ending its distribution deal in 2012 (since they already own Pixar).

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.

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, respectively. But TjsWorld2011/Tjdrum2000 said it was actually TjsWorld2011 Pictures who would be doing it. The film was later cancelled in August 2012.

Geo Animation Studios is currently working on World of Jake (2013), Rocket Gems (2014), Gerald McBoing-Boing (2014), and more. and has many other projects in development, including Crash Bandicoot and Balloon 2: The Adventures Begin.

Feature films
NOTE: All movies shown here are distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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
 * GreenyWorld: The Great Geo
 * The Land of the Earth 
 * Under the Blue Sea 2 
 * Untitled Red sequel
 * Dexter's Laboratory
 * Ico

20th Century Fox films
NOTE: All films are distributed by 20th Century Fox and Sony Wonder.

Contributions

 * The Jan and Jason Show (1990) – 3D Jan, Jason and objects in the episode 3D Jan and Jason
 * Greeny Phatom The Movie (2002) – the toy and credits

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.