User:Lolcatistan/Argosy catalogue

NOTE: A lot of these show and ideas originally came from Idea Wiki, Scratchpad, various ”what if” AUs, and other sources (mainly wikis). I use them under the CC-BY-SA license used by the majority of Wikia and Miraheze sites, as I have a bit of a creative block sometimes.

Argosy Animation Studios
The main animation department of Argosy.

Pre-1980s
Not much notable occurred during this time. This was before they bought in Ellen Peck and Paul Lopez.

1980s
Peck and Lopez were freshly hired, and had a considerable presence, cranking out shows like clockwork. A lot of (now-forgotten) shows with cats. However, higher-ranking executives still had some control over the creative output of the company.

1990s
This was when Ellen Peck and Nathan Blake took helm of the company as a whole after Lopez’ death. In 1989, Ellen’s team started work on a series vaguely based on the cat in the company’s production logo. They were given full creative control, exorbitant amounts of money, and the ability to hire whoever they wanted. The executives (a mixture of British TV moguls and televangelists) were expecting former Disney or Hanna-Barbera talent; instead, they got Robert Stainton, inventor of an early form of computer animation, who Ellen had seen on a WGN news interview received on her quasi-legal C-band satellite dish (which she had paid for using money that was meant to go towards hiring a character designer). “Ol’ Robby” brought his patented Rotanimation system to the table. The result: The Aaron Show.

2000s
In 2006, Peck resigned to an executive role (CEO and [self-proclaimed] Founder) in the company, having just bought out the MTM parent company from its Canadian owners who found it worthless. This was also the year when the majority of the 90s shows ended; Ellen ended The Aaron Show in that year because she had more important things to take care of, and most of the other animators gave up because TAS was the flagship of the whole syndicated Argosy Animation block, and what use is there continuing without a flagship?

2010s
In 2011, Ellen returned to a major creative role, becoming the Chief Creative Officer of the reorganized ArgosyMTM Group. Immediately, a rebooted (or, more accurately, continued) Aaron TV show, The New Aaron Show, was greenlit.

Films by decade
(TBA)