Video Dream Theatre used animation to visualize children's dreams in different styles, such as color Xerox. It was produced over a half-year period in 1979, when the network hired its future president Geraldine Laybourne to make two pilots for the show. Nickelodeon's first original animated program, Video Dream Theatre, was left unaired. Several months later, the studio announced a multi-year deal to produce animated content for Netflix, including new properties and spin-offs of previous Nicktoons. In 2019, Nick Animation debuted its first streaming-exclusive Nicktoon, Pinky Malinky, which was released on Netflix rather than television. These two revamped shows were developed at Nickelodeon Animation Studio following Viacom's purchases of both properties. In the early 2010s, Nickelodeon debuted the first two Nicktoons based on preexisting TV franchises, as opposed to new characters: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Winx Club. Several original shows have premiered new episodes on the Nicktoons network. In 2002, a cable channel also called Nicktoons was launched, followed by multiple international versions. Among the first shows produced at this new facility was SpongeBob SquarePants, which by 2004 had become the most profitable program in Nickelodeon history. Production moved to an individual building in nearby Burbank on March 4, 1998. Until 1998, Nickelodeon's animation division operated out of a rented office complex in Studio City, California. The first Nicktoons debuted to financial success, convincing Viacom to invest in original animated shows for its other network MTV. In contrast to the merchandise-based cartoons that dominated the 1980s animation industry, Vanessa Coffey and Geraldine Laybourne agreed that the Nicktoons should be creator-driven: based on original characters designed by animators. On August 11, 1991, the three cartoons premiered as part of a 90-minute block, becoming the first branded Nicktoons.
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Geraldine Laybourne, the channel's then-president, greenlit three pitches for full series: Doug, The Ren & Stimpy Show, and Rugrats.
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The channel did not invest into its own original cartoon series until 1989, when producer Vanessa Coffey visited Los Angeles to accept pitches from local animators.
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Since its launch in the late 1970s, Nickelodeon's schedule incorporated animation produced by other companies. All Nicktoons are produced partly at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio and list Nickelodeon's parent company, ViacomCBS, in their copyright bylines. Nicktoons is a collective name used by Nickelodeon for their original animated series.
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Various Nicktoon characters, as shown in 2013 artwork for the Nickelodeon Animation Studio