Geo Animation Studios

Geo Animation Studios, or simply Geo, is an American CGI animation studio, founded by Jake Sharratt in 1990, which makes the Greenuts shorts, TV shows and films. It is owned by Paramount Pictures and The Walt Disney Company and it is based in New York, USA. The company is best known for its 1993 animated feature Greenuts, and its sequels, Greenuts 2: the 2nd Film Begins (1997), Greenuts 3: the 10th Geo Animation Studios Film (2007) and Greenuts 4: A New Beginning (2016).

History
Geo Animation Studios was founded in September 18, 1990 by Jake Sharratt, the creator of World of Jake.

Geo Animation Studios merged into Paramount Pictures in 1991. Their first feature movie was Greenuts, which was released in 1993 and distributed by Paramount. 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.

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 by Walt Disney Pictures.

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.

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

Greeny Phatom-related films
NOTE: All movies shown here are distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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

 * 1) The characters from Greenuts eventually turn out being their company's mascots.