NBCUniversal, a major media company owned by Comcast, has owned and operated several animation studios.
Its flagship feature animation studio, Universal Animation Studios through Universal Pictures, outputs television, direct-to-video, and animated feature film releases. Currently, Comcast also operates Illumination and DreamWorks Animation as part of the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. This article does not include other animation studios whose films were released by only Universal Pictures but don't own.
Founded in 1990, Universal Animation Studios (formally Universal Cartoon Studios) is the primary animation division of Universal Pictures.[1]