colossal pictures founded 1994 headquarters los angeles california new york city new york united states area served worldwide products television series special television commercials licensed merchandise parent dhx media divisions animation kidrobot collectables ghostbot website http www.wildbrain.com wildbrain stylized as w ldbrain is an american entertainment company that develops and produces television programming motion pictures commercial content and licensed merchandise . established in 1995 and acquired by canadian media company dhx media in 2010 it maintains offices in los angeles and new york city . film productions include the annie award winning cgi short hubert s brain while television work includes nick jr. series yo gabba gabba and highly rated disney channel series higglytown heroes . wildbrain also produced earlier animated shorts and television specials of monster high for mattel . they have produced national commercials for clients like esurance 1 chiclets target nike honda kraft the wall street journal and lamisil featuring digger the dermatophyte . their ad work has won clio awards addy awards bda awards and annie awards . a subsidiary kidrobot creates limited edition toys clothing artwork and books . it has stores in new york city los angeles san francisco and miami . today wildbrain functions as the manager for dhx media s intellectual properties on youtube . wildbrain continue to produce shows including reboots of rosie & jim and brum as well as making original content including toy reviews and surprise egg openings all for youtube . contents 1 history 2 wildbrain entertainment 2.1 tv shows 2.2 films 2.3 selected commercials 2.4 short films 2.5 video games 2.6 wildbrain consumer products 2.7 web animation 3 executives 4 directors 5 references 6 external links history edit in october 1994 john hays phil robinson and jeff fino started wildbrain animation studio in san francisco s castro district . the new company bootstrapped with contract work from local game companies such as broderbund lucasarts and living books . in 1996 wildbrain moved to a 17 000 square foot warehouse at the corner of 18th and york st. in the mission district spearheading the growth of what came to be known in san francisco as multimedia gulch . over the next few years wildbrain s staff ballooned from a staff of about 20 to about 250 . it struck deals with yahoo and the cartoon network to produce animated shorts for the web . it launched wildbrain.com creating animated web shorts such as groove monkey mantalope and numerous web series including joe paradise glue graveyard and space is dum . after legendary studio colossal pictures closed down in 1999 wildbrain expanded further providing employment for former colossal directors and staff . around this period they produced the series higglytown heroes and poochini . in 2004 charles rivkin former ceo of the jim henson company joined wildbrain as president and ceo . rivkin oversaw the creation and development of the yo gabba gabba series for nick jr. in 2007 former founder jeff fino left to start nuvana an educational web based company with former colossal pictures producer joe kwong . in 2008 rivkin left wildbrain after newly elected president obama appointed him us ambassador to france and monaco . michael polis the marketing director of wildbrain then became the new ceo . around this time john hays left wildbrain to work on indie features la mission and howl which opened the 2010 sundance film festival . by 2009 the original founders of the company had all left wildbrain and the company moved to los angeles . it had been an independent company until dhx media purchased wildbrain in 2010 . the same year phil robinson and amy capen exec producer of wildbrain s san francisco studio started an independent company called special agent productions . wildbrain entertainment edit wildbrain s first venture into television was 13 i am weasel shorts for the hanna barbera produced cartoon network series cow and chicken in 1997 . i am weasel later spun off to become a separate show . in 2000 wildbrain launched mr. baby and poochini s yard ; the second series aired globally but did not appear in the united states until 2002 airing as poochini . wildbrain produced two animated series for disney channel s preschool friendly programming block disney junior formerly playhouse disney higgytown heroes and sheriff callie s wild west along with the aquabats super show for hub network . the studio has also done commercials and promos for companies like mtv noggin locomotion coca cola and cartoon network . tv shows edit happily ever after fairy tales for every child storyboards ; 1995 2000 freakazoid pre production ; 1995 1997 kablam the brothers tiki shorts ; 1997 i am weasel 1997 2000 o canada opening title & bumpers ; 1997 todd mcfarlane s spawn 1998 space is dum 1999 2001 poochini s yard 2000 2002 the chuck jones show opening title ; 2001 higglytown heroes 2004 2008 yo gabba gabba 2007 2015 team smithereen 2009 2011 the ricky gervais show 2010 2012 the hard times of rj berger 2010 2011 monster high 2010 octonauts 2010 the aquabats super show 2012 2014 bubble guppies first season only 2011 present shezow 2012 sheriff callie s wild west first season only 2014 present brum 2016 present youtube only films edit ferngully 2 the magical rescue 1998 the adventures of rocky and bullwinkle 2000 animated sequences untitled kidrobot film tba 2 the powerpuff girls movie 2002 animation production happiness is a warm blanket charlie brown 2011 selected commercials edit coca cola ntb mainstay nike locomotion cartoon network animax kfc levi s nestle xerox hershey s noggin parfums de coeur pillsbury esurance lamisil short films edit out in space 1997 humanstein 1998 a dog cartoon 1998 el kabong rides again 2000 hubert s brain 2001 erin esurance in carbon copy 2007 video games edit green eggs and ham 1996 wildbrain consumer products edit yo gabba gabba apparel accessories books electronics games home d cor and toys are available at retail through top licensees including kidrobot spin master ltd. simon & schuster nickelodeon home entertainment and paramount home entertainment nickelodeon sony bmg and others . kidrobot wildbrain subsidiary was the first to hit shelves with apparel and collectible merchandise . web animation edit the studio was one of the pioneers of web based flash animation series which were offered to the public from their website in the late 1990s and early 2000s . the studio was also the animation provider of happy tree friends season 1 2 . executives edit michael polis marge dean david graber bob higgins directors edit george evelyn paul fierlinger christian jacobs denis morella scott schultz phil robinson john hays ed bell robin steele dave marshall references edit alex miller cross media case study secret agent of change omma march 2006 . fleming michael 9 september 2008 . paramount commits to kidrobot films . wildbrain . retrieved 2013 08 12 . external links edit official website animation insider article sf weekly the little animation company that could by ryan blitstein v t e dhx media dhx studios dhx cookie jar inc. epitome pictures nerd corps entertainment ragdoll productions wildbrain kidrobot dhx television family channel family chrgd family jr. t l magino dhx distribution copyright promotions licensing group people micheline charest michael donovan michael hirsh anne wood andrew davenport linda schuyler stephen stohn asaph fipke jean chalopin andy heyward bruno bianchi ivor wood related list of dhx media programs colossal pictures cookie jar tv cookie jar kids network cookie jar toons dic entertainment filmfair kidsco retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wildbrain & oldid 743961515 categories companies based in san franciscodhx mediaadvertising directorsamerican animation studios navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa ol edit links this page was last modified on 12 october 2016 at 07 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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