Olive Jar Studios

Olive Jar Studios (formerly known as Olive Jar Animation) was an American animation studio based in Boston, Massachusetts. Olive Jar was founded by Mark d'Oliveira and Bill Jarcho in 1984, and specialized in producing primarily commercials with different animation techniques.

Olive Jar Studios
Formerly
Olive Jar Animation (1984–1995)
IndustryAnimation
FateAbsorbed into Red Sky and Agency.com
Founded1984 (1984)
FounderMark d'Oliveira
Bill Jarcho
DefunctSeptember 2001 (2001-09)
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
Los Angeles, California (1999–2001)
Key people
ParentRed Sky (2000–2001)
WebsiteOfficial website (archived)

History

After Mark d'Oliveira and Bill Jarcho met each other while attending Emerson College, they collaborated on a nine-minute animated film, "The Taming", which won a student Oscar in 1981. MTV was impressed with the short and commissioned the two to create a series of network IDs for them.[1] In 1984, Mark d'Oliveira and Bill Jarcho co-founded Olive Jar Animation in a garage in Brookline, Massachusetts, doing primarily clay animation. By 1987, 15 people (up to 35 if the workload necessitated adding freelancers) were working at Olive Jar on two or three projects at once.

In 1989, Larry Pensack replaced d'Oliveira, and in 1992, Fred MacDonald replaced Jarcho as creative director. In the mid-1990s, Olive Jar upgraded its stop motion department and re-established an internship program with the Rhode Island School of Design. In December 1999, Olive Jar opened a branch in Los Angeles housing both stage and production space. Mark Rhodes, who previously supervised Olive Jar's projects for Universal's Islands of Adventure at Universal Creative, became the West Coast branch's executive in charge of special venue and theme park productions in February 2000. In September, Red Sky Interactive (an Omnicom company) acquired Olive Jar and White Noise Productions, and discontinued the Olive Jar name. In 2001, Red Sky was acquired by Agency.com, and Olive Jar was shuttered.

Filmography
Title Year(s) Notes Client
A Steven Wright Special1985animationPyramids and Ponies
U Know What Time it Is1987music videoElektra Records
Things Never Seen1989short film
Francis & Bob's Neighborhood1989short film
Totally Hidden Video1989animation and graphicsFox Broadcasting Company
A Very Very Long Time Ago1990short film
Riders in the Sky1991gila monster sequencesCBS Entertainment Productions
What's On Your Plate1992twenty PSAsMcDonald's
The Critic1995"Sherman, Woman and Child" ("Hanukkahtown" sequence)Columbia Pictures Television
NFL Films Presents1998openingNFL Films
Cartoon Network Shorties1998"Jonny Quest: Time Is Running Out"Cartoon Network
The Incredible Hulk Coaster
Doctor Doom's Fearfall		1999queueUniversal Creative
Between the Lions2000–2001animationWGBH/Sirius Thinking
The Cartoon Cartoon Show2001"Uncle Gus: Not So Fast!"Cartoon Network

Commercials
gollark: They have a "bathtub" failure curve, apparently.
gollark: Unless it got swapped out during its lifetime.
gollark: My server has been running on an HDD which is I think 11 years old at this point.
gollark: They are very fast, at least.
gollark: This isn't supported by the evidence I've looked at, although I can't actually be bothered to work out what gave me that impression right now.

References
  1. "The Boston Globe". Newspapers.com. August 9, 1989.
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