Its most notable products were the mid-1980s lines, Madballs and My Pet Monster, both of which had animated shows from the Canadian company Nelvana.
He arrived in Toronto in 1999, where he became an animation director for Nelvana, Canada's most prestigious Animation Institute for developing Television programs aimed at children and youth.
In 1999, coinciding with the CBS Saturday Morning cartoon "Blaster's Universe" produced by Nelvana and Teletoon, the characters once again changed, probably to be more identifiable as people, with Blasternaut becoming Max Blaster, a 12-year old boy obsessed with science and space in the 21st century, and his Galactic Commander becoming G.C., a cool 12-year-old girl who looks like an earthling but is really an alien.
Christmas Two Step is a 1975 live-action/animated television special made by Nelvana Limited, and broadcast on the CBC.
Since leaving Nelvana, Smith founded Musta Costa Fortune with Melleny Melody.
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He moved to Canada in 1967 and worked as a senior animator and designer on commercials and short films with Al Guest and Vladimir Goetzleman before meeting Hirsh and Loubert and later founding Nelvana.
Clive A. Smith, founder of the Canadian animation studio Nelvana
From Nelvana, Turner moved on to feature films, working as a character assistant on Titan AE, and an effect assistant on Space Jam for Warner Brothers Animation, Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas at Disney's Toronto animation studios, and Looney Tunes: Back in Action for Warner Brothers Animation.
Peter Sauder is a Canadian film and TV writer, television producer and animator best known for his contributions to Nelvana franchises such as Care Bears (whose three movies he wrote), Babar, Strawberry Shortcake and Droids.
Stussi was first hired as a background artist in 1987 by Nelvana where he worked on the award-winning series Little Bear and Rolie Polie Olie.
Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins is a 1985 animated television special from Canada's Nelvana Limited, and the last one until DiC's recent revival to feature the American Greetings character, Strawberry Shortcake (1993–1995) on Fox Kids.
Sunny Besen Thrasher (born December 13, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario) is a former Canadian child actor who starred as Paul Edison in Nelvana's live-action series, The Edison Twins, and supplied voices in the first two Care Bears movies.
A limited edition of Ellipse-Nelvana's The Adventures of Tintin TV cartoon series was released as its HMV exclusive in Europe by Anchor Bay Entertainment.