Skydance Animation Madrid (formerly known as Ilion Animation Studios) is a Spanish
animation studio
An animation studio is a company producing animated media. The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce, own the physical equipment for production, employ operators for that equipment, and hold a major stake in the sales or rentals o ...
based in Madrid, Spain. It is a subsidiary of
Skydance Media
Skydance Media, LLC (formerly known as Skydance Productions) is an American production company based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by David Ellison in 2006, the company entered a five-year partnership to co-produce and co-finance films with ...
via
Skydance Animation to create computer-animated films for theatrical release. After working with Skydance since 2017, they were acquired by the company in 2020, and rebranded as Skydance Animation Madrid.
History
Ilion Animation Studios was originally based in Madrid, Spain. The Perez Dolset brothers, Javier and Ignacio Perez Dolset, founded the company in the year of 2002 to make animated films. Ilion Animation Studios was a partner with U-Tad, which is a European University that is specialized in digital arts and technology. Ilion came up with all of its own content. On occasion, Ilion worked with some of its third parties.
Ilion Animation Studios was independently and privately owned.
In March 2017, Ilion announced that they would partner with
Skydance Animation to produce two animated feature films: ''
Luck
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'' and ''
Spellbound''. Skydance Animation formally acquired the studio in April 2020, renaming it as Skydance Animation Madrid.
Productions
Feature films
Released films
Upcoming films
Short films
References
External links
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Mass media companies established in 2002
2020 mergers and acquisitions
Spanish companies established in 2002
Spanish animation studios
Companies based in the Community of Madrid
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