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Cuppa Coffee Studios

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Formerly	Cuppa Coffee Animation (1992–2006)
Industry	Animation
Founded	December 14, 1992; 32 years ago (1992-12-14) inToronto,Ontario
Founder	Adam Shaheen Bruce Alcock
Headquarters	Toronto,Ontario, Canada
Divisions	Cuppa Coffee Studios USA
Website	www.cuppacoffee.com

Cuppa Coffee Studios (formerly known asCuppa Coffee Animation) is a Canadianproduction company headquartered inToronto,Ontario.^[1] Cuppa Coffee was founded byAdam Shaheen andBruce Alcock in 1992. It specializes in bothstop-motion animation and2D animation, winning over 150 international awards. Cuppa Coffee is currently developing live-action content through Cuppa Coffee USA.

By late 1992, Adam Shaheen had worked on several editorial assignments, book jackets and CD covers, but he wanted to create a unique animation style mixing photographic, collage and illustration techniques. In December, he founded Cuppa Coffee Animation with Bruce Alcock, and Steve Hillman joined the company shortly after. Cuppa Coffee's first projects were network IDs and show opens for MuchMusic and a commercial for Fruity Pebbles. In March 1993, Cuppa Coffee was featured onCitytv'sMediaTelevision program; the interview expanded a campaign for Molson's Black Ice which exhibited their unique mixed-media animation. Bruce Alcock moved to Chicago in 1995 to start Tricky Pictures, Backyard Productions' animation subsidiary. In February 1996, Cuppa Coffee began producing live-action, starting with three spots for Molson Ultra. In 1997, Cuppa Coffee launched Sargent York, a short-lived arm of the company that would work on longer-form content like "The Adventures of Sam Digital in the 21st Century", an award-winning short film forNickelodeon. In the late 1990s, Cuppa Coffee produced theHBO Family seriesCrashbox and other shorter projects for the network, the CBS Christmas specialSnowden's Christmas, and pilots for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.

In 2001, Cuppa Coffee Animation started development on three series for children:Cinema Sue,Ted's Bed andGordon Giraffe. The following year,Broadway Video Enterprises agreed to distribute the three series, but none of them went into production. In 2004, Cuppa Coffee launched Decaf Distribution as it started producing its own content. In 2005, the short seriesBruno aired onNoggin and internationalNickelodeon channels, and AWOL Animation agreed to distribute the short seriesTigga and Togga andBruno and the Banana Bunch, a long-form series based on theBruno interstitials. Cuppa Coffee was also going to co-produceCaptain Mack with Kickback Media, but the completed series was produced by Fireback Entertainment instead.

In September 2009,Gordon Ramsay signed a prime time animation deal with Cuppa Coffee Studios, who began working on the seriesGordon Ramsay, At Your Service, which was never completed. In 2010, Cuppa Coffee Studios added 30 stages and 30,000 square feet to its Toronto studios. Cuppa Coffee launched Saucer Sound that year and Lemon Squeezy Interactive in 2011. Cuppa Coffee developed other animated projects throughout the 2010s that never went into production, including a show based on Polybank Designs'Pets Rock licensing brand in 2017.^[2] The studio opened Cuppa Coffee Studios USA in 2018 and is developing live action dramas. Only the American studio is currently active as the website was redirected to Cuppa Coffee Studios USA.

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• Crashbox (1999–2000) (52x30 episodes)^[a]
• Little People (1999–2005) (co-production withEgmont Imagination,Fisher-Price and Wreckless Abandon Studios)
• Snowden's Christmas (1999)
• The Cartoon Cartoon Show ("Trevor!") (2000)
• Henry's World (2002–2004) (co-production withFamily Channel,Alliance Atlantis andTV-Loonland AG)
• JoJo's Circus (2003–2007) (co-production withCartoon Pizza forPlayhouse Disney)
• The Wrong Coast (2004) (26x11 episodes) (co-production withCurious Pictures)
• Bruno (2005) (50x1 episodes)
• A Very Barry Christmas (2005)
• Celebrity Deathmatch (2006–2007)
• Feeling Good with JoJo (2006–2008) (co-production withCartoon Pizza forPlayhouse Disney)
• Starveillance (2007)
• Bruno and the Banana Bunch (2007)
• Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World (2007–2009)
• Life's a Zoo (2008) (20x22 episodes)
• A Miser Brothers' Christmas (2008)
• Nerdland (2009) (pilot)
• Glenn Martin, DDS (2009–2011) (40x22 episodes)
• Ugly Americans (2010–2012)
• The Devil's Due (2011) (short film)
• Archetype Me (2013) (short film)
• Dodie in Oz (2013) (short film)
• Fordtacular Spectacular! (2013) (short film)
• Trump Unhinged (2016) (web shorts)

• Cuppa Coffee Studios website

• Entertainment companies established in 1992
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• Canadian animation studios
• Television production companies of Canada
• Companies based in Toronto
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