Nickelodeon Animation Studio

Nickelodeon Animation Studio is an American animation studio and division of Nickelodeon. It has created many original television programs for Nickelodeon and its sister channels, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Invader Zim, Danny Phantom, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Since the 2010s, the studio has also co-developed its own series based on preexisting IP purchased by ViacomCBS, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Winx Club. In 2019, Nickelodeon Animation Studio signed a multiple-year output deal for Netflix.

The studio's foundation followed the creation of three animated programs for Nickelodeon in 1991: Doug, Rugrats, and The Ren & Stimpy Show. In 1992, Nickelodeon founded Games Animation to produce new animated shows, including their first fully in-house series, Rocko's Modern Life. Games Animation produced much of the network's mid-1990s output in partnership with other animation companies like Frederator Studios and Klasky Csupo. In 1998, the studio moved from Studio City, California to Burbank with the construction of a new facility. It was renamed Nickelodeon Animation Studio and later Nickelodeon Studios Burbank. In 1999, a second facility in New York City was opened, named Nickelodeon Animation Studio New York.