

Also several scenes in the Kennedy Cartoons episodes.

Also, network executives' temporary fascination with Macromedia Flash, which was thought to make animation faster and cheaper, didn't help. In addition, the steady rise in popularity of anime made network execs question the need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on animating something domestically when it could simply import foreign programs. The cost of paying American animators is far higher than for labor in foreign countries like South Korea and Taiwan. Numerous factors contributed to StarToon's demise. shows, including the opening title sequence for Taz-Mania and animation of much of an unreleased Looney Tunes theatrical short entitled Little Go-Beep however, it also created the popular character Dudley the Dinosaur for the American Dental Association, the Fat Cats pilot for Cartoon Network, and some direct-to-video films for the Christian market.īefore its demise in 2001, StarToons had a plethora of exciting projects lined up, such as pilots "Up With the Chickens", "Tuna Sammich", "The Kitchen Sink Gang", "The Neverland Gnomes", and M-7, a Japanese-style anime which was to be animated fully in Chicago.

For the most part, StarToons provided animation exclusively for Warner Bros. While the initial founding of StarToons was in October 1988, the studio didn't start getting credit until 1991, when StarToons animated a full episode of Tiny Toon Adventures (it had previously done individual scenes outsourced to them by Kennedy Cartoons when Jon McClenahan worked alone).

It was founded by Jon McClenahan, an animator who had previously worked for other studios like Hanna Barbera. StarToons International, LLC was an American animation studio located in the Chicago, Illinois area.
