Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation (or MGM Animation for short) is the animation division of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture studio in Hollywood, California, United States, that specializes in animated productions for theatrical features and television. It was established in 1993 and primarily involved in producing children's entertainment based upon MGM's ownership of properties, such as The Pink Panther, The Lionhearts, The Secret of NIMH, and All Dogs Go to Heaven as well as original properties including the films The Iron Stove, The Hero of Toytown, Darkness Awakening, and The Forests Between Mountains.

The founders, Paul Sabella and Jonathan Dern, left the company in 1999 and founded SD Entertainment. The studio has been dormant ever since then. Recent animated films from MGM would later be produced by outside animation studios such as Arc Productions, Reel FX Creative Studios, Mikros Image and Cinesite Studios, beginning with Upside Mystery in 2007.

History
MGM launched a dedicated animation division in January of 1994.

Miscellaneous productions

 * The Adventures of Hyperman (1995) (video game)

Unproduced projects

 * The Betty Boop Movie. In 1993, there were plans for an animated feature film of Betty Boop to be MGM Animation's first theatrical animated film, but the plans were later canceled. The musical storyboard scene of the proposed film can be seen online. The finished reel consists of Betty and her estranged father performing a jazz number together called "Where are you?" Jimmy Rowles and Sue Raney provide the vocals for Betty and Benny Boop. Latter All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 became MGM Animation's first theatrical animated film.
 * Noah. According to Animation Magazine, MGM Animation had plans to do a theatrical animated movie adaption of comedian Bill Cosby's famous stand up sketch of his take of Noah's Ark with Cosby producing, co-writing the script and as the voice of God, while Carl Reiner and Jonathan Winters were in talks to voice Noah. However the project was canceled after Cosby's previous films were both commercial and critically failures and more people were becoming aware of Cosby's sex abuse cases.
 * Film deal with Gingo. In February 1995, when Multimedia Motion Pictures and Gingo made a film deal with MGM, they mentioned the possibility of making films based on Gabriel Garza, Ray Eilo, BJ and Wally and Metro Cone, but these projects were soon scrapped by Gingo when the contract expired in 1996 due to Gingo's parent company, Multimedia, being merged with MCA (then-parent company of Universal Studios), and Universal would distribute the film projects instead.