Spotlight (company)
Spotlight Animation Studios (or simply Spotlight) is an upcoming American visual effects and computer animation studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was founded on December 21, 2025, by Chris Wedge, Chris Meledandri, Robert Simonds and Bill McGlashan, Connecticut the North Stamford it is a unit of 20th Century Studios, a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is a division of The Walt Disney Company.
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| Predecessors | Fox Animation Studios MAGI Blue Sky Studios |
| Founded | December 21, 2025 |
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| Headquarters | , United States |
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| Products | Film production Television series Animated series |
| Parent | 20th Century Studios |
History
In December 2025, it was reported that Robert Simonds and Bill McGlashan was nearing a after the closure of Blue Sky Studios in 2021. to the Spotlight Animation label under 20th Century Studios for the first time in over a decade. In March 2026, Spotlight Animation Studios hired former Illumination and DreamWorks Animation CCO Chris Meledandri.
Production logo
With the release of Kazorn and the Unicorn in TBA, Spotlight Animation's logo revealed their first logo it represents their full logo was released and shows the Scrat which are the mascots of the studio launched from their around to form the studio's logo with himself then appears in the distance, hops to the acorn and embraces it. Suddenly, the surface tips to the right. Scrat runs to the left and closer to the screen, causing the surface to tip towards the left, becoming increasingly vertical. Scrat panics and scrambles in vain to tip the surface back to the right, but ends up clinging to the vertical surface while his acorn falls off-screen. The camera then zooms out to reveal the vertical surface as the left side of the "S" in "SPOTLIGHT" (in a similar gotham black font as before), with "ANIMATION STUDIOS" (in Neutraface) below. Scrat then loses his grip on the "S" and bonks off the left corner before falling off. A drop shadow fades in behind the text, and then the screen, it was animated by DNEG Animation and their head of animation Chris Meledandri.
Process
In a similar fashion to MGM Animation Studios, Paramount Animation, Sony Pictures Animation, Illumination and Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Spotlight does not produce its films in-house where it is based in Greenwich, Connecticut., but rather outsources the animation production of its films to other studios, with the majority of their films being animated by. Spotlight Animation Studios outsources their feature films to other animation studios such as DNEG Animation.
Feature films
Filmography
Upcoming films
| Title | Release date | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Composer(s) | Production | Distribution |
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| Kazorn and the Unicorn | TBA | Kevin Asbury Co-director: Chris Wedge |
Pamela Ribon Stacey Harman |
Chris Meledandri Gina Shay |
Christopher Lennertz | N/A | 20th Century Studios |
In development
| Film | Director(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The ChubbChubbs! | Chris Wedge | N/A | |
| Geronimo Stilton | David Soren | ||
| Untitled The Ugly Duckling and Me! film | Nick Bruno and Troy Quane |
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The Spotlight studios at 16 Garrick Street (credit: Paul Porter)
The cover of the Spotlight actors' directory from 2005 for surnames M-Q
The Spotlight directories on display at the studios in 16 Garrick Street (credit: Paul Porter)
