StarToons International, LLC. was an animation studio located in the

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area. It was founded by Jon McClenahan, an animator who had previously worked for other studios like

Hanna-Barbera Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( ) was an American animation studio and production company which was active from 1957 to 2001. It was founded on July 7, 1957, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera following the decision of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to c ...

. The initial founding of StarToons was in October 1988 and for the most part it provided animation exclusively for Warner Bros. shows, but it also created the character Dudley the Dinosaur for the

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. * Its animators also worked on the 2000 ''

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'' short '' Little Go Beep'' featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. StarToons shut down in 2001. The studio provided animation for the following cartoons: *''

Tiny Toon Adventures ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' is an American animated comedy television series that was broadcast from September 14, 1990, to December 6, 1992. It was the first collaborative effort of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation a ...

'' (1990–1992) - 3 half-hour episodes: ''Henry Youngman Day'', ''Thirteensomething'' and ''It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special''. *''

Taz-Mania ''Taz-Mania'' is an American animated sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Animation from 1991 to 1995, broadcast in the United States on Fox Kids. The show follows the adventures of the ''Looney Tunes'' character Taz ( the Tasmanian Devil) in the ...

'' (1991–1992) - The opening and 2 half-hour episodes: ''Instant Replay/Taz and the Pterodactyl'' and ''Hypnotazed/Mum's n' Taz's''. *'' McGee and Me'' (1992) - The animated sequences. *''

Animaniacs ''Animaniacs'' is an American animated comedy musical television series created by Tom Ruegger for Fox Broadcasting Company's Fox Kids block in 1993, before moving to The WB in 1995, as part of its Kids' WB afternoon programming block, until ...

'' (1993–1998) - 28 segments: ''Wakko's America'', ''What Are We?'', ''Be Careful What You Eat'', ''Slappy Goes Walnuts'', ''The Big Candy Store'', ''Plane Pals'', ''Meatballs or Consequences'', ''Broadcast Nuisance'', ''Guardin' the Garden'', ''Bumbie's Mom'', ''Wally Llama'', ''Chairman of the Bored'', ''Meet Minerva'', ''And Justice for Slappy'', ''Meet John Brain'', ''Critical Condition'', ''Frontier Slappy'', ''MacBeth'', ''Windsor Hassle'', ''Scare-Happy Slappy'', ''Ragamuffins'', ''Karaoke-Dokie'', ''Testimonials'', ''Dot The Macadamia Nut'', ''Bully for Skippy'', ''Magic Time'', ''The Brain's Apprentice'' and ''There's Only One of You''. Also, numerous bumpers. *''

Secret Adventures Secret Adventures is an American Christianity, Christian television series created by George Taweel and Rob Loos. It was released between 1993 and 1995 as direct-to-video VHS tapes spanning seven half-hour episodes. The series concerns teenager ...

'' (1994) - The animated sequences. *''

What a Cartoon! ''What a Cartoon!'' (later known as ''The What a Cartoon! Show'' and ''The Cartoon Cartoon Show'') is an American animated anthology series created by Fred Seibert for Cartoon Network. The shorts were produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; by ...

'' (1995) - 1 short: ''Drip Dry Drips''. *''

Histeria! ''Histeria!'' is an American animated series created by Tom Ruegger and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Unlike other animated series produced by Warner Bros. in the 1990s, ''Histeria!'' was an explicitly educational program created to ...

'' (1998–2000) - 4 half-hour episodes: ''The Wild West'', ''Around the World In a Daze'', ''Writers of the Purple Prose'' and ''Dawn of Time''.

References

External links

Interview with Jon McClenahanIMDb - StarToons Assistant Animator: John MorfootFat Cats Short
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