Augenblick Studios is an independent animation studio located in New York City. Founded in 1999 by Aaron Augenblick, their team of artists has created a wide array of animated shorts for television, film, and the Internet. Clients include the Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Spike Lee, PBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon. The studio is responsible for much of the animated content on MTV2's Wonder Showzen, as well as Comedy Central's weekly web series Golden Age. In 2007, Augenblick Studios animated the short "Lying Rhino" for the feature film comedy The Ten. In 2008, the studio completed 11 episodes of Superjail! for Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. Recent projects have included short cartoons for Yo Gabba Gabba! on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network's MAD, and the new Comedy Central series Ugly Americans. In 2011, the studios also created a video for the track "Another Tattoo" on "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Alpocalypse. Recently, they've provided their services towards creating a cartoon short for Saturday Night Live, with SNL writer Zach Kanin. In December 26, 2022, it is best known for PBS Kids' City Island, the series of shorts with senient objects.
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Segments[]
- Wonder Woman Bread
- Ant Funeral
- The Everyone's Pole: the Firefighter's Pole for Everyone
- Crate & Arrow
- MAD's Guide to the Royal Family
- What If They Had Cellphones?: Movie Edition
- Hands Free Detective
- Travelociraptor
- Man of Surreal
- Who Cut the Cheese?
- World War DBZ
- Alligator Eats a Princess
- Bad Idea #100: Juice Boxing Gloves/Good Ideas, Inc. Closed Forever
- Beached Whales
- Less Impressive Super Hero Lairs
- Jokey the Eighth Dwarf: That's why we've never heard of him
- Arrowbics
- The White House Down Comforter
- Tooth Fairies of the Old West
Trivia[]
- There are two scrapped sketches that didn't make it onto MAD. One involving an arm wrestling match and one involving a magician and a woman waiting for a train.