Netflix Acquires Animation Studio Animal Logic (The Lego Movie, Happy Feet)

[Bubbles-11]

Netflix is moving further into the world of animation with the acquisition of Australian studio Animal Logic.

The company is responsible for work on films such as Happy Feet, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, The Lego Movies and Peter Rabbit.

It comes after Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said last year that it is building out its animation unit with the hope to compete against Disney in family animation.

The streamer’s animation slate includes the likes of Over the Moon, Academy Award-nominated Klaus and the recently released The Sea Beast.

Netflix has previously acquired companies such as visual effects studio Scanline VFX, which has worked on series such as Stranger Things, and has recently bought a slew of gaming companies.

The two companies have previously partnered on projects such as The Magician’s Elephant, directed by Wendy Rogers, and are working on The Shrinking of the Treehorns, directed by Ron Howard.

https://deadline.com/2022/07/netflix...ic-1235072619/

[Bubbles-11]

Other non-Netflix exclusive projects that the studio has been in production on recently are League of Super Pets and Toto for WB.

[Poya]

Cool. Maybe their animation won't be garbage anymore.