Gingo Animation


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Gingo Animation, LLC (or simply Gingo) is an American animation studio headquartered in North Hollywood, California. Founded by Geo G. and Michael Wildshill on February 13, 1988, it is best known for producing the franchises Gabriel Garza, Hatty, BJ and Wally, Niz Chicoloco, Chrysocolla, TeenV, Critter Mockers, Zina and the Vivid Crew, Metro Cone, and Imagimals. After some experimental computer-animated short films during the late 1990s beginning with Tifi (1996), it entered the computer animation market with Metro Cone (2005). Gingo continues to produce films using both traditional animation and computer-generated imagery (CGI).

In addition to its intellectual properties, Gingo is mainly known for its Glass Ball Productions, Gingo Interactive, and Creative Step Studio units. Its former feature animation unit Gingo Feature Animation, now known as Universal Animation Studios, was folded into Universal Studios and became the in-house feature animation division of said company, where it develops and produces animated feature films (including the franchises Computeropolis, Paradoria and Luna & Zak) that heavily borrow the style of Gingo and its works due to the fact that many former Gingo employees are involved in those films. Gabriel Garza, the main character of the studio's animated television series of the same name, is the studio's mascot.