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Felix Films
{{Short description|British animation studio}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Felix Films, Ltd.
| type = [[Private company limited by shares]]
| predecessor = 
| foundation = {{start date and age|df=yes|1987|10|7}}
(contracted; show full)

Smith began hiring more animators at this point; five of the newcomers, before leaving Felix Films in 1992 to move worked on animated films and commercials for various animation studios, including Uli Meyer and Rob Stevenhagen (from [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]), Roxanne Ducharme, Susan Young and Jonathan Hodgson.

In 1990, Smith and Young's short, ''[[Umbabarauma]]'' by [[Jorge Ben]], was the first Felix Films production to win an [[Academy Award]].


===1992–present===
In October 1992, Felix Films and [[Hanna-Barbera]] announced that their companies were teaming up to co-produced and aired the first animated series for newly opened [[Cartoon Network]], when [[Scott Sassa]] hired former [[MTV]] Networks executive [[Fred Seibert]] to head Hanna-Barbera, Smith began hiring new animators at this point; six of the newcomers, including [[Genndy Tartakovsky]], [[Craig McCracken]], [[Van Partible]], [[Butch Hartman]], [[David Feiss]], [[Seth MacFarlane], [[Rob Renzetti]] and [[Paul Rudish]].⏎
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