Universal Animation Studios is an American animation studio owned by Comcast through its wholly-owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. Founded in 1986 as Universal Feature Animation, the studio creates animated feature films, short films, and television programs for Universal Pictures, and currently maintains its main feature animation studio in Universal City, California, which produces a total of 24 feature films including the Judy & Lucy, Galactic Quest, and The Epic Pixel franchises, as well as a satellite studio in Glendale, which produces animated television series and direct-to-video and occasional theatrical animated feature films.
In recent years, Universal Animation Studios has primarily focused upon the production of television, feature and direct-to-video animation of other properties owned by Universal, notably including those related to films that already exist since 1997.