 Logo used since 2019 | |
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | |
| Founded | July 31, 1998[1] |
| Founder | Seth MacFarlane |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Key people | |
| Products | Family Guy American Dad! The Orville Ted |
| Divisions | Fuzzy Door Tech |
| Subsidiaries | Underdog Productions |
| Website | fuzzydoor |
Fuzzy Door Productions, Inc. is an American film and television production company founded by Seth MacFarlane in 1998.[2] The company's productions include the animated sitcoms Family Guy, American Dad!, the Family Guy spin-off The Cleveland Show, the live-action sitcom The Winner, the science documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and the sci-fi comedy drama series The Orville. Established as part of 20th Century Studios, the company signed a deal with NBCUniversal in 2020,[3] subsequently basing its headquarters at Universal City Studios in Universal City,[4] and naming Erica Huggins as its president that same year.[5][2]
MacFarlane's animated series, Family Guy and American Dad! have been produced at 20th Television Animation, while his live-action series, The Orville is filmed at the studio's Universal City headquarters and in Westlake, California.[6]
The name of the company comes from the leopard-printed fake fur-covered door to the house MacFarlane lived in when he attended Rhode Island School of Design as an undergraduate in animation. The house itself also went by the nickname the Fuzzy Door during MacFarlane's residence and was the location of many "Fuzzy Door" parties. The company logo was designed by Cory Brookes, a friend and housemate of MacFarlane's at the Fuzzy Door residence. The logo was updated in 2019, featuring a more abstract design of the door and no longer featuring the leopard fur-pattern design, instead it's colored in a plain white door with a blue background, or vice-versa colors. In 2020, the new logo was enhanced, featuring the door animating open and the text irising in as it does so, over a background that has a darker shade of blue.
- ^ "Business Search - Business Entities - Business Programs | California Secretary of State". Archived from the original on 2017-04-03.
- ^ a b Caranicas, Peter (2023-04-19). "'Lost' and 'Watchmen' Showrunner Damon Lindelof and Fuzzy Door Productions President Erica Huggins Keynote Variety's Power of Law Breakfast". Variety. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
- ^ Otterson, Joe (2020-01-10). "Seth MacFarlane Sets NBCUniversal Overall Deal". Variety. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
- ^ Slashfilm.com "Seth MacFarlane Leaving 20th Century Fox TV for NBCUniversal with a New Overall Deal" (Retrieved from Slashfilm.com on 27 October 2020)
- ^ Erica Huggins LinkedIn profile
- ^ The Orville's space adventures via Los Angeles (Retrieved from filmla.com on 27 October 2020)