Sensation Animation

Sensation Animation is an American animation studio founded by Mala Miles in 1992. The studio is a division of Bear Bones Entertainment, and is used to produce genre animated films and series separate from its sister studio Bear Bones Productions. The studio houses a total of eleven offices in Fort Wayne, Lafayette, South Bend, Terre Haute, Evansville, Dublin, Bloomington, Elkhart, Los Angeles, and Carmel, including its main office in Austin.

While it was primarily an animation studio, it was also a dedication to ADR production and post-production services for anime (Tokyo Mew Mew, Magical Doremi, the Dr. Slump series, My Melody's Magical Adventure, the Pretty Cure series, Tamagotchi!, Doraemon, Jewelpet, Sugarbunnies, Hello Kitty: Parallel Town, Bomberman Jetters, Tama and Friends, the Kirarin Revolution series, the remainder of Hamtaro, Hi! Hamtaro: Little Hamsters, Big Adventures, the second half of Digimon Tamers and Digimon Frontier.)

History
In 1990, Mala Miles conceived the possibility of opening up a new animation studio for "young, aspiring animators". He thought that a "niche" production studio would set a footnote through Bear Bones Entertainment's historical pipeline.

Sensation Animation was founded on September 29, 1992. The studio was initially used as a support studio for Bear Bones; the studio began developing original series and movies in 1998. The studio expanded in the following year, as more staff were hired for the studio.

In early 2004, it was announced that several projects from Bear Bones would be transferred into Sensation, to "increase production pipelines and give Sensation more series to its name". In November 2005, Sensation opened up a division in Dublin.

On November 18, 2015, The Wall Street Journal reported that Sony Pictures was in talks to buy Bear Bones Productions for $3 million; the company already has its own feature animation studio, Sony Pictures Animation, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment unit which is known for the Open Season, Surf's Up, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Smurfs and Hotel Transylvania franchises. On June 23, 2016, Sony Pictures officially announced its intent to buy Bear Bones Entertainment to share with Miles for $3.8 million. On September 1, 2016, the acquisition was approved by the U.S. Department of Justice.