The studio had initially operated from an animation facility in Van Nuys, California, and negotiated with Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment to make the animated feature An American Tail. During its production, Sullivan began to move the studio to Dublin, Ireland, to take advantage of government investment and incentives offered by the Industrial Development Authority (IDA). Most of the staff from the US studio moved to the new Dublin facility during production on the studio's second feature film, The Land Before Time. The studio also recruited heavily from Ireland, and helped set up an animation course at Ballyfermot College of Further Education to train new artists. In 1989, during the production of All Dogs Go to Heaven, founding member John Pomeroy and many of the remaining American staff members returned to the United States to form a satellite studio in Burbank, California. The studio found itself in financial difficulty in 1992 when Goldcrest withdrew funding due to concerns about the poor box office returns of its most recent films and budgetary over-runs in its in-production films, Thumbelina, A Troll in Central Park and The Pebble and the Penguin. Another British film company, Merlin Films, and Hong Kong media company Media Assets invested in the studio to fund the completion and release of the three partially completed films. Bluth and Goldman were drawn away from the studio when they were approached in late 1993 to set up a new animation studio for 20th Century Fox. Sullivan Bluth Studio's films continued to suffer losses at the box office, and the studio was closed down on October 31, 1995, after the release of their final feature, The Pebble and the Penguin. Don Bluth and Gary Goldman went on to head up Fox Animation Studios in Phoenix, Arizona to work on Anastasia, Bartok the Magnificent and Titan A.E.. After this the studio closed.
@Da1Dez2 ай бұрын
Man I wish I could've worked there!
@edcampion39984 ай бұрын
Sad day for ireland when they closed
@Silver77cyn5 ай бұрын
So, this is were the magic happens.
@Sam-ve6wu9 ай бұрын
Glen McIntosh at 2:29 😎
@GMC652310 ай бұрын
Thanks to Don Bluth who helped Walt Disney Studios & Universal Studios & MGM studios & Warner Bros studios & 20th Century Fox Studios with their animated movies that were directed by Don Bluth
@reneastle8447 Жыл бұрын
What will it be like if "An American Tail" was the first ever animated feature film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture? That would've been a milestone achievement.
@KodytheRedFox Жыл бұрын
Is that Whitney Houston singing in background from 6:30 to 6:40?
@michaellittlepage4314 Жыл бұрын
If Fievel Mousekewitz Was a Human Boy He Would Have Blonde Hair
@dylanroyer2484 Жыл бұрын
hello my name is Dylan Royer I love all you Animations
@dylanroyer2484 Жыл бұрын
Attached is the link to my video that you asked :forkzread.info/dash/bejne/g32cqcauXZDbcps.html
@music39053 Жыл бұрын
Why was the studio closed in Ireland?
@paulfogarty77242 жыл бұрын
Lovely !.. I can still remember the excitment I felt when I was offered a job here. .. magical times.
@romulo5602 жыл бұрын
THIS IS AWESOME!! Did you work here? If so, you're so lucky!! This is my favorite era of animation, nothing can compare.
@sandrocleuzo88142 жыл бұрын
Yes, I did work there for 4 years on Thumbelina, Troll in Central Park and Pebble and the Penguin
@basaari17152 жыл бұрын
This is amazing, makes me realize how much they really invested for their life long passion. Was that whole massive building just for Bluth studios?
@KodytheRedFox Жыл бұрын
Yes, it was.
@ellie_bells49883 жыл бұрын
woah ;0;
@moccalou4 жыл бұрын
I know Bluth disowned it, but Pebble will always be my favorite Bluth movie! Critics panned it and even mentioned that Marina was a boring damsel in distress... but I think she was just a total pacifist full of light and love! Hubie was the one who had to change and be the hero! Shy, meek guys like me need role models too and want girls who love them for who they are and care about their welfare, and this is one of the rare movies that do that in the sweetest way I think! Thank you for sharing these intimate 11 minutes of everyone working and bringing this movie to life. :)
@sladelutz32284 жыл бұрын
I wonder what that building is now a office or some other corp?
@Hydrart4 жыл бұрын
10:56 is that Moya?
@Hydrart4 жыл бұрын
I remember when we got the bones out of the canal at low tide...whos desk is that with the sheep skull?
@Hydrart4 жыл бұрын
Doesn't Lisa Joko sound a wee bit Irish?
@villain_gaming_x83934 жыл бұрын
Wish this company succeeded. Truly great animation
@splashinisworldwidestudios92745 жыл бұрын
That's why this is what the former traditional animation was closet about Ultraverse.
@briansivley20015 жыл бұрын
Were you able to meet Don Bluth and if so what was he like? Also did you work there as an animator?
@nivdel6 жыл бұрын
Ótimo vídeo, Sandro. Lembro da camera line test (mas só tinha uma funcionando no Dogs 2); o Paul Newberry, meu primeiro supervisor, que depois partiu pra Fox; a sala do screening (só usada para life drawing no Dogs 2). O de camisa rosa não é o John Power? Bom desenhista e um cara bacana, quase comprei o Honda Civic dele, mas resolvi que continuaria com os ônibus verdes de dois andares, que sempre vinham em pares depois de esperar o maior tempão.
@NotOrdinaryInGames7 жыл бұрын
Too bad it was Pebble, of all the movies, to be shown worked on.
@aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa7 жыл бұрын
This is so cool, Don Bluth had pretty snazzy place at Ireland. I'd love to know what else was going on behind the scenes, because from what I can see, production's mostly focused on Pebble and the Penguin, but I can see some Troll in Central Park cels being made, shame there are no behind the scenes stories about any of Don Bluth's movies made in that period.
@manuelorozco77606 жыл бұрын
aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa I prefer Pebble over Troll. Even though the latter was a bigger part of my childhood. I haven't watched Troll since my senior year of high school
@KodytheRedFox Жыл бұрын
There's a behind-the-scenes documentary of "The Pebble And The Penguin" on the 2007 Family Fun Edition DVD of the movie. It's right here: m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/YpibwdyOmdiZhZc.html
@Pablo993368 жыл бұрын
The Pebble & The Penguin...1995. A great year !
@manuelorozco77606 жыл бұрын
Jack Silver Not a perfect year but now I am looking back I am glad I lived in it in terms of pop culture
@epache3153 жыл бұрын
Happy 26th Anniversary Of The Pebble And The Penguin
@DennisTamayo3 жыл бұрын
It was Don Bluth's final film to use traditional cel animation.
@basaari17152 жыл бұрын
@@DennisTamayo They used cel animation in Anastasia, too (1997). It had some 3D camera pans, but even then they used hand painted textures.
@DennisTamayo2 жыл бұрын
@@basaari1715 That's during pre-production!
@rosemoon31188 жыл бұрын
2:42: Ducky and AnneMarie in the background. RIP Judith Barsi.
@SaillantCoofArizonaАй бұрын
She & her mother were killed by the father
@JiM-SWEET-art8 жыл бұрын
For people who haven’t heard the news and like Don Bluth animation, movies or the video games Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace, please consider supporting this project by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. www.kickstarter.com/projects/donbluth/dragons-lair-the-movie
@johnylitalo41639 жыл бұрын
This building has been bankrupted 20 years ago.
@manuelorozco77608 жыл бұрын
+John Ylitalo Time has gone by quick as lightning
@johnylitalo41639 жыл бұрын
I could start my own animation studios.
@vincenzogiordano98507 жыл бұрын
can I join your animation studio
@johnylitalo41637 жыл бұрын
Vincenzo Giordano Sure.
@andreslizama11137 жыл бұрын
John Ylitalo bajar
@andreslizama11137 жыл бұрын
John Ylitalo
@vincenzogiordano98507 жыл бұрын
John Ylitalo so what will the studio be called
@DionysusJPower9 жыл бұрын
Can't believe it, his studio was in Ireland! Would loved to have seen it
@Maxi235439 жыл бұрын
Was it you who shot this?
@sandrocleuzo88148 жыл бұрын
Yes, I did just before I left but I was nervous about it because I knew the producers did not approve of it. I am glad I did it.
@darwinlong85869 жыл бұрын
Sandro - thank you so much for sharing this. It was truly remarkable to view a 'virtual tour' of Sullivan Bluth Studios during the height of production of one of the Don Bluth films that I hold the most affinity for (#211 The Pebble and the Penguin). I have frequently taken pause to imagine what it must have been like to work there during that specific era. My family and colleagues deeply appreciate the diligent effort and talent that you and your colleagues at SB Studios put into creating these films. They are irreplaceable treasures that cannot be matched by today's CG fare. You are extremely fortunate to have worked under the likes of Don Bluth, Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy. Out of curiosity, may I ask which character(s) and sequences you were primarily involved with for this film?
@Maxi235439 жыл бұрын
shame it closed down not long after this :(
@admiralackbar93075 жыл бұрын
Yes, sadly the 1990s were very badly hit with a massive film industry recession, lots of studios were struggling, it was a terrible time to be trying to enter into the animation industry, or film industry work, very few studios where able to afford to employ new artists, in this video it looks like they only had a skeleton crew in the Don Bluth studio to work on this film, it looks very sad to me, :(
@manuelorozco776010 жыл бұрын
Pebble is my fav Don Bluth movie tied with Thumbelina. Can anyone find any Pebble related promotions Seaworld did back in 1995 that would very appreciative
@darwinlong85869 жыл бұрын
Manuel - I have no television video clips of the SeaWorld promos coinciding with the MGM home video VHS release of the film. HOWEVER... I collect anything related to The Pebble and the Penguin to preserve its history (merchandising tie-ins, toys, Pebble/Penguin animation art from SB Studios, etc.), and I do have two VHS clamshells having the original SeaWorld Name-A-Penguin Contest promo stickers and inserts, rebate form, and also the admission discount flyers (of course presented by both Hubie and Marina). See this link: facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200935073448022.1073741827.1501347530&type=3
@manuelorozco77609 жыл бұрын
Darwin Long Perfect
@manuelorozco77609 жыл бұрын
Your gallery is awesome
@manuelorozco77606 жыл бұрын
Darwin Long Have you ever thought of turning Pebble into a musical on Broadway?
@chazclark804010 жыл бұрын
This is a cool studio, thanks for sharing it
@dermotoc959410 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting, Sandro! Strange to see it all again, after so much time.
@MarkFloodAnimations10 жыл бұрын
An amazing insight into the wonderful Don Bluth Studios. Thanks for sharing this!
@SalixTree10 жыл бұрын
Thanks Sandro! Nostalgia! Loved seeing all the old gang... Silvia
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The studio had initially operated from an animation facility in Van Nuys, California, and negotiated with Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment to make the animated feature An American Tail. During its production, Sullivan began to move the studio to Dublin, Ireland, to take advantage of government investment and incentives offered by the Industrial Development Authority (IDA). Most of the staff from the US studio moved to the new Dublin facility during production on the studio's second feature film, The Land Before Time. The studio also recruited heavily from Ireland, and helped set up an animation course at Ballyfermot College of Further Education to train new artists. In 1989, during the production of All Dogs Go to Heaven, founding member John Pomeroy and many of the remaining American staff members returned to the United States to form a satellite studio in Burbank, California. The studio found itself in financial difficulty in 1992 when Goldcrest withdrew funding due to concerns about the poor box office returns of its most recent films and budgetary over-runs in its in-production films, Thumbelina, A Troll in Central Park and The Pebble and the Penguin. Another British film company, Merlin Films, and Hong Kong media company Media Assets invested in the studio to fund the completion and release of the three partially completed films. Bluth and Goldman were drawn away from the studio when they were approached in late 1993 to set up a new animation studio for 20th Century Fox. Sullivan Bluth Studio's films continued to suffer losses at the box office, and the studio was closed down on October 31, 1995, after the release of their final feature, The Pebble and the Penguin. Don Bluth and Gary Goldman went on to head up Fox Animation Studios in Phoenix, Arizona to work on Anastasia, Bartok the Magnificent and Titan A.E.. After this the studio closed.
Man I wish I could've worked there!
Sad day for ireland when they closed
So, this is were the magic happens.
Glen McIntosh at 2:29 😎
Thanks to Don Bluth who helped Walt Disney Studios & Universal Studios & MGM studios & Warner Bros studios & 20th Century Fox Studios with their animated movies that were directed by Don Bluth
What will it be like if "An American Tail" was the first ever animated feature film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture? That would've been a milestone achievement.
Is that Whitney Houston singing in background from 6:30 to 6:40?
If Fievel Mousekewitz Was a Human Boy He Would Have Blonde Hair
hello my name is Dylan Royer I love all you Animations
Attached is the link to my video that you asked :forkzread.info/dash/bejne/g32cqcauXZDbcps.html
Why was the studio closed in Ireland?
Lovely !.. I can still remember the excitment I felt when I was offered a job here. .. magical times.
THIS IS AWESOME!! Did you work here? If so, you're so lucky!! This is my favorite era of animation, nothing can compare.
Yes, I did work there for 4 years on Thumbelina, Troll in Central Park and Pebble and the Penguin
This is amazing, makes me realize how much they really invested for their life long passion. Was that whole massive building just for Bluth studios?
Yes, it was.
woah ;0;
I know Bluth disowned it, but Pebble will always be my favorite Bluth movie! Critics panned it and even mentioned that Marina was a boring damsel in distress... but I think she was just a total pacifist full of light and love! Hubie was the one who had to change and be the hero! Shy, meek guys like me need role models too and want girls who love them for who they are and care about their welfare, and this is one of the rare movies that do that in the sweetest way I think! Thank you for sharing these intimate 11 minutes of everyone working and bringing this movie to life. :)
I wonder what that building is now a office or some other corp?
10:56 is that Moya?
I remember when we got the bones out of the canal at low tide...whos desk is that with the sheep skull?
Doesn't Lisa Joko sound a wee bit Irish?
Wish this company succeeded. Truly great animation
That's why this is what the former traditional animation was closet about Ultraverse.
Were you able to meet Don Bluth and if so what was he like? Also did you work there as an animator?
Ótimo vídeo, Sandro. Lembro da camera line test (mas só tinha uma funcionando no Dogs 2); o Paul Newberry, meu primeiro supervisor, que depois partiu pra Fox; a sala do screening (só usada para life drawing no Dogs 2). O de camisa rosa não é o John Power? Bom desenhista e um cara bacana, quase comprei o Honda Civic dele, mas resolvi que continuaria com os ônibus verdes de dois andares, que sempre vinham em pares depois de esperar o maior tempão.
Too bad it was Pebble, of all the movies, to be shown worked on.
This is so cool, Don Bluth had pretty snazzy place at Ireland. I'd love to know what else was going on behind the scenes, because from what I can see, production's mostly focused on Pebble and the Penguin, but I can see some Troll in Central Park cels being made, shame there are no behind the scenes stories about any of Don Bluth's movies made in that period.
aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa I prefer Pebble over Troll. Even though the latter was a bigger part of my childhood. I haven't watched Troll since my senior year of high school
There's a behind-the-scenes documentary of "The Pebble And The Penguin" on the 2007 Family Fun Edition DVD of the movie. It's right here: m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/YpibwdyOmdiZhZc.html
The Pebble & The Penguin...1995. A great year !
Jack Silver Not a perfect year but now I am looking back I am glad I lived in it in terms of pop culture
Happy 26th Anniversary Of The Pebble And The Penguin
It was Don Bluth's final film to use traditional cel animation.
@@DennisTamayo They used cel animation in Anastasia, too (1997). It had some 3D camera pans, but even then they used hand painted textures.
@@basaari1715 That's during pre-production!
2:42: Ducky and AnneMarie in the background. RIP Judith Barsi.
She & her mother were killed by the father
For people who haven’t heard the news and like Don Bluth animation, movies or the video games Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace, please consider supporting this project by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. www.kickstarter.com/projects/donbluth/dragons-lair-the-movie
This building has been bankrupted 20 years ago.
+John Ylitalo Time has gone by quick as lightning
I could start my own animation studios.
can I join your animation studio
Vincenzo Giordano Sure.
John Ylitalo bajar
John Ylitalo
John Ylitalo so what will the studio be called
Can't believe it, his studio was in Ireland! Would loved to have seen it
Was it you who shot this?
Yes, I did just before I left but I was nervous about it because I knew the producers did not approve of it. I am glad I did it.
Sandro - thank you so much for sharing this. It was truly remarkable to view a 'virtual tour' of Sullivan Bluth Studios during the height of production of one of the Don Bluth films that I hold the most affinity for (#211 The Pebble and the Penguin). I have frequently taken pause to imagine what it must have been like to work there during that specific era. My family and colleagues deeply appreciate the diligent effort and talent that you and your colleagues at SB Studios put into creating these films. They are irreplaceable treasures that cannot be matched by today's CG fare. You are extremely fortunate to have worked under the likes of Don Bluth, Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy. Out of curiosity, may I ask which character(s) and sequences you were primarily involved with for this film?
shame it closed down not long after this :(
Yes, sadly the 1990s were very badly hit with a massive film industry recession, lots of studios were struggling, it was a terrible time to be trying to enter into the animation industry, or film industry work, very few studios where able to afford to employ new artists, in this video it looks like they only had a skeleton crew in the Don Bluth studio to work on this film, it looks very sad to me, :(
Pebble is my fav Don Bluth movie tied with Thumbelina. Can anyone find any Pebble related promotions Seaworld did back in 1995 that would very appreciative
Manuel - I have no television video clips of the SeaWorld promos coinciding with the MGM home video VHS release of the film. HOWEVER... I collect anything related to The Pebble and the Penguin to preserve its history (merchandising tie-ins, toys, Pebble/Penguin animation art from SB Studios, etc.), and I do have two VHS clamshells having the original SeaWorld Name-A-Penguin Contest promo stickers and inserts, rebate form, and also the admission discount flyers (of course presented by both Hubie and Marina). See this link: facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200935073448022.1073741827.1501347530&type=3
Darwin Long Perfect
Your gallery is awesome
Darwin Long Have you ever thought of turning Pebble into a musical on Broadway?
This is a cool studio, thanks for sharing it
Thanks for posting, Sandro! Strange to see it all again, after so much time.
An amazing insight into the wonderful Don Bluth Studios. Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks Sandro! Nostalgia! Loved seeing all the old gang... Silvia
Incredible document!
Amazing Gem Sandro! More more!