'''Amblimation''' was the British [[animation]] production subsidiary of [[Amblin Entertainment]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/17/business/hollywood-falls-hard-for-animation.html|title=Hollywood Falls Hard for Animation|first=Sallie|last=Hofmeister|work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 17, 1994|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61614358.html?dids=61614358:61614358&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+03%2C+1992&author=BARBARA+ISENBERG&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=A+look+inside+Hollywood+and+the+movies.+THE+CARTOON%27S+THE+THING+Book+by+Kipling.+Musical+by+Mackintosh.+And+Next%2C+Animated+Movie+by+Spielberg&pqatl=google "A look inside Hollywood and the movies" - Los Angeles Times]</ref> It was formed by [[Steven Spielberg]] in May 1989, following the success of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'' (1988), and after he parted ways with [[Don Bluth]], due to creative differences. It was stationed in what was originally the [[D. Napier & Son]] factory in [[Acton, London]] and had 250 crew members from 15 different nations.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1991-11-17-2826530-story.html|title=Animation Really Keeps Steven Spielberg Moving|newspaper=The Morning Call |date=November 17, 1991|access-date=May 30, 2020|via=Mcall.com}}</ref> It only produced three [[feature films]]: ''[[An American Tail: Fievel Goes West]]'' (1991), ''[[We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (film)|We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story]]'' (1993), and ''[[Balto (film)|Balto]]'' (1995), all three of which feature music composed by [[James Horner]] and were distributed by [[Universal Pictures]]. The company's [[mascot]], [[Fievel Mousekewitz]], appears in its [[production logo]]. It was based in what was originally the [[D. Napier & Son]] factory in [[Acton, London]], and had 250 crew members from 15 different nations.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1991-11-17-2826530-story.html|title=Animation Really Keeps Steven Spielberg Moving|newspaper=The Morning Call |date=November 17, 1991|access-date=May 30, 2020|via=Mcall.com}}</ref>
The studio closed in 1997 after only eight years of operation and its office building became a [[self-storage]] facility called Access Self-Storage. All 250 of Amblimation's crew members went on to join [[DreamWorks Animation]],<ref name="Walt">{{Cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/spielberg-walt.html|title=Film: The Man Who Would Be Walt|website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref> which was later acquired in 2016 by Universal's parent company [[NBCUniversal]] for $3.8 billion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-nbcuniversal-buys-dreamworks--20160428-story.html|title=Comcast's NBCUniversal buys DreamWorks Animation in $3.8-billion deal|last=James|first=Meg|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=28 April 2016 |access-date=2019-01-16}}</ref>