In March, 250 jobs were cut in the Burbank feature animation unit -- mostly traditional animators and the assistants called cleanup artists.
Henderson recently persuaded creepy-movie director Tim Burton to produce a series of animated shorts for Macromedia's animation unit, Shockwave.com.com
Landau also formed and managed Sony Pictures Animation, a full-scale animation unit producing full-length CG animated feature films.
Those would considerably expand the range of releases at Disney, which has been focused heavily on animated films like "Up" from its Pixar Animation unit, and family fare like "G-Force," from the producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
"Wall-E" from Disney's Pixar Animation unit was named the year's best animated film.
Eager to dip into the revenue stream, Sony Pictures Entertainment hired two former DreamWorks executives eight months ago to lead its new animation unit, which plans to focus solely on computer-animated films.
Walt Disney and its Pixar animation unit announced that a 3-D presentation of its coming animated feature "Up" has been selected as the opening-night premiere of this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Bugs Bunny was conceived at Leon Schlesinger's animation unit at Warner Brothers studios.
Clampett joined Leon Schlesinger's fledgling animation unit on the Warner Bros. lot in 1933.
"Beavis and Butt-Head" is coming back, too, thanks to a newly reformed animation unit.
Comcast is expected to merge it with its own animation unit, Illumination Entertainment.
