Titmouse, Inc.
FoundedFebruary 2000 (2000-02)
FoundersChris Prynoski
Shannon Prynoski
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California
,
U.S.[1]
Key people
Number of employees
over 700[2]
SubsidiariesTitmouse New York
Titmouse Canada
Websitetitmouse.net

Titmouse, Inc. is an American animation studio based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2000 that develops and produces animated television programming, feature films, music videos, title sequences, commercials, and short films.

History

Founder and CEO Chris Prynoski began working at MTV in New York on shows such as Daria, Beavis and Butt-Head, and his own creation, Downtown, which was nominated for a primetime Emmy Award.[3] In the early 2000s, Prynoski opened a small T-shirt company with his wife, Shannon Prynoski. However, upon getting more requests for cartoons than for T-shirts, they decided to abandon screen-printing in favor of animation. The Prynoskis moved to California, and opened the revamped Titmouse, Inc., an animation studio. Antonio Canobbio, who had worked with Chris Prynoski at MTV and both Prynoskis at Cartoon Network in Los Angeles, was hired as creative director.[4] Titmouse opened a games division in 2009.[5]

Due to projects like Cartoon Network's Metalocalypse, Superjail! and The Venture Bros. the company expanded and opened a sister studio in New York City in 2010. The California studio later added a wholly owned subsidiary, Robin Redbreast, which was then unionized in order to produce Motorcity for Disney XD.

The company has a YouTube channel, Rug Burn, launched in December 2012 with 6 Point Harness. Rug Burn was launched with a handful of shows.[6]

In April 2016, Titmouse released its first feature-length film, the R-rated Nerdland, which stars Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt.[7]

In early 2020, Titmouse signed a multiyear production deal with Netflix.[8]

In October 2020, Titmouse Vancouver became the first animation studio in Canada to join a union. Following a vote that captured 87% of the workforce, 98% of Titmouse Vancouver's workforce voted to join the newly founded Animation Guild IATSE Local 938.[9] In response to this, some said that the issues raised by the workers of Titmouse were the same ones heard "from unrepresented animation workers everywhere" and that the unionization of the Titmouse workers acknowledges the contributions by animation workers to the industry.[10][11][lower-alpha 1]

In January 2022, the employees of Titmouse New York formed a union with Animation Guild IATSE Local 839, the first to do so outside of Los Angeles County in more than 70 years. In the card check process, Titmouse NY employees showed more than 90% of support for the organizing effort. Following the union becoming public, Titmouse management chose to voluntarily recognize the union and agreed to negotiate with the Animation Guild in good faith.[12]

Notes

  1. ↑ A related union is The Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839, formerly named the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists, located in Burbank, California

References

  1. ↑ "Titmouse, Inc. - Central Hollywood - 267 visitors". Foursquare.com. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
  2. ↑ "About - Titmouse". Titmouse. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ "52nd Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners". Television Academy. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Antonio Canobbio". Titmouse. July 30, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
  5. ↑ French, Michael (March 19, 2009). "Animation house Titmouse opens game studio". Develop Online.
  6. ↑ "Six Point Harness and Titmouse launch Rug Burn channel". Animation Magazine. December 7, 2012.
  7. ↑ Wickline, Dan (October 9, 2015). "NYCC '15: Paul Rudd To Lead Titmouse' First Feature Length Film". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  8. ↑ Sakoui, Anousha (February 7, 2020). "Titmouse, maker of 'Big Mouth' and other animated series, expands into Burbank". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  9. ↑ Amidi, Amid (October 20, 2020). "Historic Moment in Canadian Animation: 98% Of Titmouse Vancouver Workers Vote To Unionize". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on November 2, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  10. ↑ Larsen, Karin (October 22, 2020). "Vancouver animation workers unionize after precedent-setting vote". CBC News. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  11. ↑ Milligan, Mercedes (October 20, 2020). "Titmouse Canada Becomes Country's First TAG Union Toon Shop". Animation Magazine. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  12. ↑ Kilkenny, Katie (January 10, 2022). "Animation Guild Expands Beyond L.A. With Unionization of Titmouse New York". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
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