Jumbo Pictures

&nbsp Jumbo Pictures (Now known as Cartoon Pizza) is a now-defunct New York based animation studio founded by Jim Jinkins which began operations in 1988.

Nickelodeon era
Jumbo Picutres began business designing commercials and shorts for Sesame Street and Square One Television. In 1990, Nickelodeon began looking for creators for the channel's own original cartoons, as they only aired syndicated reruns of older programming and dubbed anime. So in 1990, Jumbo Pictures created the pilot episode to Doug, "Doug Can't Dance". After being green-lit, Doug premiered on August 11, 1991 as the first Nicktoon. The show ended production with 53 episodes in 1994. During the fourth season of Doug, Jumbo Pictures created their first puppetry show, Allegra's Window, for the Nick Jr. block aimed at preschoolers.

Disney era
Until 1996, Nickelodeon had a policy in which if one of the Nicktoons ended before 65 episodes, the rights to the show goes back to the creators, leaving them to use the characters and settings for other projects, while Nickelodeon can still rerun the show. Because Doug ended with 53 episodes, the show's rights went back to Jumbo Pictures. In 1996, Geri Laybourne, the former president of Nickelodeon and at the time, the head of ABC's Saturday Morning lineup, was interested in Jumbo Pictures to create new Doug episodes for Disney. So in 1996, Disney bought Jumbo Pictures, and they created new episodes of Doug from 1996 to 1999. The new episodes had various changes to the characters, such as giving them new clothes, as well as changing a few loctations and voice actors. Fans had mixed feelings about the changes. Due to the buyout, Allegra's Window ended production on Nickelodeon, due to the company no longer on the channel's payrole.

In 1997, Jumbo Productions co-produced their first spin-off of a previous franchise, 101 Dalmatians: The Series. The show also had a very differented art style than the rest of the shows produced by the studio.