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Cartoon Network hit Kids Next Door is produced by New York's curious pictures.

 

Big Big World, animated series produced by Shadow Projects on Long Island.


New York is home to some of the best and brightest in the cutting edge worlds of animation and computer imaging, including

  • Blue Sky Studios in Westchester County, Academy Award winning creators of the advanced lighting technique ‘radiosity', producers of box office hits “Ice Age2: The Meltdown,”  “Robots” and the original "Ice Age" all released by 20th Century Fox
  • Shadow Projects, in East Hampton, producers of numerous hit children's shows and feature films combining live action, puppetry and CGI such as Its A Big Big World, Bear in the Big Blue House, Elmo in Grouchland, Book of Pooh, many more…
  • curious pictures, creators of Cartoon Network staples Codename: Kids Next Door and Sheep in the City
  • New York has some of the leading film and media arts schools in the country - NYU's Tisch School, Columbia University, School of Visual Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Purchase, Cornell, Buffalo State, Ithaca College, many more…

New York also has more than a dozen telecommunications companies that provide broadband video links via satellite and fiber optics to virtually anywhere on earth .

Blue Sky Studios, based in Westchester County, won an Academy Award© for the short BUNNY in 1999. Their latest project ICE AGE: The Meltdown, is one of the biggest box office hits of 2006.