Skyscore Animation

Skyscore Animation is an American animation studio owned by the Universal Kids & Adults Production Group‎ division of Universal Studio Group, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal. Located in North Hollywood, California, the studio primarily produces and develops original animated programs and shorts for Skyscore, including Sean Santos, Wu Xie: Legendary Warrior, Cyanstar of the Sky Kingdom, and Ace of All Trades, among others. It has also recently produced programs for its preschool programming block Skyscore Junior and night–time block NightHouse, as well as sibling cable channels NBC, USA Network and Universal Kids, and the streaming service Peacock.

The studio was established on April 1, 1994, originally as the animation division of Multimedia Entertainment until the latter was absorbed into Universal Television two years later in 1996.

1994–1996: Multimedia era
Skyscore Animation was initially formed on April 1, 1994, as a television animation division of Multimedia Entertainment following Multimedia's purchase deal of the television production arm of Timothy Winbush Productions along with the aforementioned studio, focusing on producing original programming for Skyscore, including The Tooney Hour, Sean Santos and Funky Fu! Pop Star Fighter. The studio also produced the third and fourth seasons of The Spacebots, a cartoon series previously aired on CBS from 1991 to 1994 and produced by Timothy Winbush Productions.

Before animator Timothy Winbush came to Multimedia to start Skyscore, his animation studio began its first foray into television production with the Christmas short Bright Christmas in 1984 before producing the following television series Muzy, The Spacebots, and Animal Tales.

1996–2008: As a division of Universal Television Animation
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2008–2019: Under NBCUniversal Television Group
In January 2008, NBC Universal announced a reorganization of its animation units to improve resource usage and continued focus on new characters and franchise development. In this reorganization, when Universal moved its direct-to-video animation unit from Universal Television Animation to Universal Feature Animation (now renamed Universal Animation Studios), the Television Animation unit (including its Skyscore Animation and NightHouse Animation divisions) was transferred to the NBC Universal Television Group under its Kids & Family Group.

In 2010, the studio produced Kyle + Rosemary (in co-production with Frederator Studios), which originated as a short featured on Nicktoons' Random! Cartoons that was not picked up as a full series by that channel. In 2014, Skyscore Animation produced its first television series based on a series of online shorts, Elliot's Guide to Becoming a True Mouse.

2019–present: Under Kids & Adults Production Group
In October 2019, Skyscore Animation, along with NightHouse Animation, was split off from Universal Television Animation as part of a restructuring by NBCUniversal which was in the progress of transferring all three studios to NBCUniversal Content Studios via the newly formed Kids & Adults Production Group.

Skyscore has since planned collaboration with fellow sister studios such as Universal Television Animation, NightHouse Animation, and now DreamWorks Animation Television (via NBCUniversal's purchase of DreamWorks Animation in 2016). The studio has even invested in co-production for other NBCUniversal-owned networks including Universal Kids.

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