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C.O.R.E.

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C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures
TypePrivately held company
IndustryCGI animation
FateSuspended operations
FoundedMarch 31, 1994
FounderWilliam Shatner
Bob Munroe
John Mariella
Kyle Menzies
DefunctMarch 15, 2010
Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario
,
Canada

C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures was a Canadian film and television computer animation special effects studio, which branched out into fully animated television series and feature films. On March 15, 2010, the company announced it was suspending operations, and shut down.

C.O.R.E. signed a production partnership deal with Radar Pictures.[1]

History

C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures was started in 1994 by John Mariella, Kyle Menzies, Bob Munroe and William Shatner.[1]

Its first and only animated feature film, The Wild, was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.[1] It met with unfavourable critical and commercial reaction. With 400 temporary employees, The Wild had the largest production crew for a film made in Canada.

With a rising exchange rate as with most Canadian animation firms, C.O.R.E. was getting fewer jobs from America. So in March 2010, C.O.R.E. stopped operating and laid off their employees.[1]

C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures

Television

Series, unless mentioned otherwise.

  • Planet Sheen Nickelodeon/Omation Animation Studio (now produced by Bardel Entertainment) (O Entertainment)
  • The Tudors[1]
  • National Aboriginal Achievement Awards National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
  • Code Breakers - MOW Orly Adelson Productions/ESPN Original Entertainment
  • Kevin Hill Kevin Hill Prods. Inc./ABC, Inc.
  • Anonymous Rex - Pilot Fox Television/ Sci-Fi
  • Wonderfalls - Pilot and Series, Fox Television
  • Dead Aviators – MOW Temple Street/Showtime/CBC
  • The Music Man - MOW The Disney Channel
  • Spinning Boris - MOW Dufferin Gate Productions/ Showtime
  • Salem Witch Trials - MOW Alliance Atlantis Communications/Spring Creek Productions
  • Tru Confessions (The Disney Channel, MOW)
  • The Zack Files (Decode Entertainment for Fox Family/Channel 4)
  • The Rats (Cort-Madden Productions/Fox Television, MOW)
  • Prancer Returns (USA Studios, MOW)
  • The Feast of All Saints (Dufferin Gate/Showtime, miniseries)
  • Jett Jackson: The Movie (Alliance/Atlantis & The Disney Channel, MOW)
  • The Four Seasons (MOW)
  • Don Giovanni: Leporello's Revenge (Rhombus Media/CBC, MOW)
  • Model Behavior (Disney Telefilms/The Wonderful World of Disney, MOW)
  • PSI Factor (Atlantis/Alliance/CTV, Seasons I, II, III & IV)
  • Sandy Bottom Orchestra (Dufferin Gate Productions/Showtime, MOW)
  • Dead Aviators (Temple Street/Showtime/CBC, MOW)
  • Sea People (Temple Street/Showtime, MOW)
  • John Woo's Once a Thief (Alliance Communications)
  • LEXX (TiMe Film/Salter Street Films)
  • Shock Treatment (Alliance/CBS, pilot)
  • Government of Playhouse (Decode Entertainment for PBS Kids)
  • Tek War (Atlantis Films)

Games

  • Midnight Club 3 (Rock Star Games, intro sequence)

C.O.R.E. Toons

  • Dudson (Decode Entertainment)
  • Dragon Tales (CBC/Sesame Workshop/Sony Pictures Television/Decode Entertainment/PBS)
  • The Naughty Naughty Pets (Decode Entertainment/CBC)
  • The Save-Ums! (Decode Entertainment/Discovery Kids/CBC/The Dan Clark Company)
  • The Ren & Stimpy Show (Decode Entertainment/Spümco/Nickelodeon)
  • Franny's Feet (Decode Entertainment/Family Channel/PBS)
  • Sheriff Callie's Wild West (CBC/WildBrain/Decode Entertainment/Wild Canary Animation/Disney Junior)
  • Adventures from the Book of Virtues (PorchLight/FOX/Kristin/PBS)
  • The Hoobs (Decode Entertainment/Jim Henson Productions/Hit Entertainment/PBS Kids Sprout Originals)
  • Angela Anaconda (Decode/Fox Family/Teletoon)
  • Brats of the Lost Nebula (Decode Entertainment/Jim Henson Productions/Kids' WB)
  • Iggy Arbuckle (Blueprint Entertainment/National Geographic Kids/Teletoon)
  • Planet Sketch (Decode Entertainment/Aardman Animations/Teletoon)
  • Planet Sheen (Nickelodeon/Omation/Cookie Jar Entertainment)
  • Chop Socky Chooks (Decode Entertainment/Aardman Animations/Cartoon Network Studios)
  • Paws & Tales (Providential Pictures)
  • Urban Vermin (Decode Entertainment)
  • Super Why! (Decode Entertainment/Out Of The Blue Enterprises/PBS)

Animated films

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Vlessing, Etan (March 16, 2010). "Toronto FX giant C.O.R.E. Digital shuts down". The Hollywood Reporter. AP. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  2. ^ "The Spine". Official website. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
  3. ^ Desowitz, Bill (9 June 2009). "Chris Landreth Talks The Spine" (Interview). Animation World Network. Retrieved 12 March 2011.

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