StarToons International, LLC.

StarToons International, LLC. was a Chicago-based animation studio that was founded in October 1988 by Jon McClenahan. They worked on many of the segments on the original Animaniacs, and were especially synonymous with Slappy Squirrel's cartoons.

After the first season wrapped-up, Fox Kids didn't order any new episodes of Animaniacs for the 1994/95 season, as all Warner Bros. material was headed to the then-upcoming Kids' WB! block. As a result, there was no longer any material for the studio to animate for a time, and McClenahan could no longer afford to keep paying a full staff. Some of his staff including Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone, Kirk Tingblad, and Jeff Siergey left to go work for WB itself; while McClenahan assembled a new crew as the studio was brought back in-order.

From 1994-1996, most of StarToons' involvement with Animaniacs consisted of storyboarding cartoons animated by Wang (including one episode of the Pinky and the Brain spin-off series). By 1996, they were ready to animate again, and contributed a few episodes to the final season of Animaniacs.^[1]

StarToons filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and shut down shortly after.^[2]

Animaniacs Productions[]

Animaniacs (Original Series)[]

• Slappy Squirrel Intro (First version, used in most of season 1 and "Soccer Coach Slappy")
• All Randy Beaman segments
• "Slappy Goes Walnuts" (Episode 3)
• "Film Projector Transition" (Episodes 4 and 20)
• "What Are We?" (Episode 6)
• "The Big Candy Store" (Episode 8)
• "Bumbie's Mom" (Episode 8)
• "Wally Llama" (Episode 9)
• "Fortunes" (Episode 12)
• "Meatballs or Consequences" (Episode 19)
• "Wakko's America" (Episode 21)
• "Guardin' the Garden" (Episode 22)
• "Plane Pals" (Episode 22)
• "Sessions 1 and 2" (Episode 23)
• "Be Careful What You Eat" (Episode 23)
• "Yakko's World of Baldness" (Episode 24)
• "Chairman of the Bored" (Episode 32)
• "Cartoons in Wakko's Body" parts 1, 2, 3 and Conclusion (Episode 33)
• "Critical Condition" (Episode 36)
• "Buttermilk, It Makes a Body Bitter" (Episode 41)
• "Broadcast Nuisance" (Episode 41)
• "Windsor Hassle" (Episode 45)
• "...And Justice for Slappy" (Episode 45)
• "Branimaniacs" (Episode 51)
• "Frontier Slappy" (Episode 51)
• "Meet Minerva" (Episode 54)
• "Meet John Brain" (Episode 58)
• "Ragamuffins" (Episode 59)
• "Karaoke-Dokie" (Episode 60)
• "Scare Happy Slappy" (Episode 62)
• "MacBeth" (Episode 62)
• "It" (Episode 92)
• "Dot - The Macadamia Nut" (Episode 92)
• "Bully for Skippy" (Episode 92)
• "Magic Time" (Episode 94)
• "The Brain's Apprentice" (Episode 94)
• "There's Only One of You" sequence (Hooray for North Hollywood Part 1, Episode 95)
• "Punchline" Parts 1 and 2 (Episode 98)

Storyboarding and Timing Only[]

• "Yabba Dabba Boo" (Episode 78, animation by Wang)
• "Gunga Dot" (Episode 80, animation by Wang)
• "Soccer Coach Slappy" (Episode 82, animation by Wang)
• "Wakko's 2-Note Song" (Episode 82, animation by Wang)
• "The Return of the Great Wakkorotti" (Episode 82, animation by Wang)
• "The Big Wrap Party Tonight" (Episode 82, animation by Wang)
• "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock" (Episode 83, animation by Wang)

Pinky and the Brain[]

• Select archival footage from "Meet John Brain" utilized in "Schpiel-borg 2000" (Episode 48)

Storyboarding and Timing Only[]

• "Brainania" (Episode 5, animation by Wang)

References[]