WildBrain Partners With EightyEight Pictures on CG
The long-term partnership aims to strengthen premium CG animation production across WildBrain and EightyEight Pictures.
Updated on Nov. 3, 2026 in Animation
WildBrain has entered a long-term strategic partnership with EightyEight Pictures to expand premium CG animation production. Creative leadership and core production functions remain with WildBrain and House of Cool in Canada.
Why it matters
The partnership forms part of WildBrain's broader plan to evolve its production capabilities into a more integrated, flexible model. Working with external studios reflects a standard and historic practice at WildBrain and across the industry.
WildBrain owns franchises including Strawberry Shortcake, Teletubbies, Yo Gabba Gabba!, and Inspector Gadget, and the Vancouver studio plans a 47,000-square-foot home. The partnership's financial terms and project-level production splits have not been disclosed.
The players
WildBrain
WildBrain is a Canadian children's entertainment company that owns franchises including Strawberry Shortcake, Teletubbies, Yo Gabba Gabba!, and Inspector Gadget.
EightyEight Pictures
EightyEight Pictures is an animation studio with offices in Toronto and London and production studios in Mumbai and Bangalore, known for work on Trollhunters, Gremlins, Kung Fu Panda, and Star Wars: Visions.
Milind D. Shinde
Milind D. Shinde founded EightyEight Pictures and previously helped establish DreamWorks Animation's production operation in India.
The details
The partnership brings together WildBrain and House of Cool with EightyEight Pictures' CG production infrastructure and talent, with EightyEight Pictures providing additional CG execution capacity within a shared pipeline. WildBrain retains complete pre-production through post capabilities in-house for CG and 2D projects.
Timeline
January 2027: WildBrain's Vancouver studio plans to move to a 47,000-square-foot home in Mount Pleasant.
Industry Dynamics
The partnership extends the cross-border model Milind D. Shinde helped build when he established DreamWorks Animation's production operation in India. It reflects the broader industry pattern of animation studios combining in-house creative leadership with outsourced CG production capacity.
Viewers are not directly affected by the partnership's structure, but its output could shape which premium CG animated series and films reach audiences. The announcement does not specify release schedules or distribution platforms for projects produced under the partnership.
The takeaway
Studio partnerships that split creative leadership from CG execution are becoming a practical way to scale premium animation output. Readers following the animation business can watch whether WildBrain and EightyEight Pictures publicly detail project slates under the arrangement.
Further reading
For more on how studios are building production partnerships, explore the Animation section.
