Nitrogen Studios

Nitrogen Studios Canada, Inc. (commonly referred to as Nitrogen Studios) is a Canadian animation company founded by husband and wife duo Greg Tiernan and Nicole Stinn.

Nitrogen Studios Canada, Inc.
IndustryComputer animation
FoundedOctober 2003 (2003-10)
FounderGreg Tiernan
Nicole Stinn
Headquarters
Vancouver, British Columbia
,
Canada
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Nicole Stinn (President and CEO)
Greg Tiernan (CCO)
OwnerGreg Tiernan
Nicole Stinn
Number of employees
51 - 200
ParentCinesite

On March 7, 2017, it was acquired by British visual effects and feature animation studio company Cinesite.[1]

Filmography

Theatrical
Year Title Co-production Notes
2006 Happily N'Ever After Vanguard Animation
Odyssey Entertainment
Lionsgate
2016 Sausage Party Point Grey Pictures
Annapurna Pictures
Columbia Pictures		 [2]
2019 The Addams Family Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cinesite Studios
The Jackal Group
United Artists Releasing
Bron Creative
Whalerock Industries
Denver and Delilah Productions
BermanBraun
2021 The Addams Family 2 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
BermanBraun
Bron Creative
Cinesite Studios
United Artists Releasing
TBA Arkie Passion Pictures
Luma		 [3][4][5]

Direct-to-Video
Year Title Co-production
2009 Hero of the Rails HIT Entertainment
2010 Misty Island Rescue
2011 Day of the Diesels
2012 Blue Mountain Mystery

Television
Premiere Date End Date Title Channel Note
January 9, 2008 December 25, 2012 Thomas & Friends PBS Kids
Channel 5		 100 episodes: CGI series; co-produced with HIT Entertainment
February 26, 2011 June 23, 2012 Dan Vs. Hub Network 27 episodes: lip sync; co-produced with Film Roman, The Hatchery, and Starz Media
December 23, 2016 May 25, 2018 Trollhunters Netflix 2 episodes: co-produced with DreamWorks Animation and Double Dare You

Other projects
Year Title Medium
2005 God of War (uncredited) Video game with Santa Monica Studio, Sony Computer Entertainment, and JP: Capcom
2008 Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Video game with Bioware and Sega
2010 Kodee’s Canoe Interactive app series

Controversy

Several days after the release of Sausage Party, allegations of poor treatment of Nitrogen Studios employees surfaced in the comments section of an interview with Tiernan and co-director Conrad Vernon, featured on the website Cartoon Brew.[6] Various anonymous posters, purporting to be animators who worked on the film in question, made claims including that Nitrogen forced them to work overtime for free and that some employees were threatened with termination. Some animators who complained or left due to stress went uncredited in the film. One poster stated that Tiernan had developed a reputation for "disturbing behaviour and abusive management style".[7] Publications such as the Washington Post[8] the Los Angeles Times[9] and /Film[10] have picked up the story.

References
  1. Regan Reid (March 7, 2017). "Cinesite Studios acquires Nitrogen". Kidscreen. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  2. Burns, Elias; Vlessing, Etan (August 16, 2016). "'Sausage Party' Animators' Pay Dispute Surfaces After Big Opening". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  3. "Nitrogen On Board To Animate Scarygirl Feature 'Arkie'". February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
  4. Ritman, Alex (May 20, 2017). "Cannes: Shailene Woodley, Jai Courtney Team for 'Arkie'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
  5. Frater, Patrick (December 14, 2017). "Australian Animation 'Arkie' Sold to Vision for China Release". Variety Magazine. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
  6. Sausage Party's Animators Were Treated Like Shit
  7. 'Sausage Party' Directors Conrad Vernon & Greg Tiernan On Making 2016’s Most Outlandish Animated Film
  8. The working conditions for some ‘Sausage Party’ animators were pretty terrible
  9. 'Sausage Party' anything but a good time at work, some animators say
  10. 'Sausage Party' Allegedly Forced Animators to Work Overtime for Free, Refused to Credit Artists
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