Eric Darnell

A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a ...  (more)

Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends—Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo—have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before an admiring public and with ...  (more)

Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired craft stays airborne just long enough to make it to the African continent. There the New Yorkers encounter members of ...  (more)

Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French animal-control officer ...  (more)

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.  (more)

Mac and Cheez are back, this time on a deep space adventure. Joined by their robot sidekick, their spaceship is endangered by teeth-gnashing space bugs and careening asteroids.  (more)

In a distant galaxy, three natives of Gas Planet carry on with their quest for nourishment. Their behavior is definitely alien, but also comically familiar to an earthling audience. Gas Planet is an in-house release from ANTZ co-director Eric Darnell with support ...  (more)

An Animated Short film By Eric Darnell  (more)

The carefree forest animals imagine spring will last forever. However, winter comes and the animals soon realize that their lives are in danger. What they need is a hero; what they need is Crow: The Legend.  (more)

Invasion! is the story of menacing aliens who come to take over Earth and destroy anyone that tries to stop them. It is up to two adorable little white bunnies (and you are one of them) to stop their plans before it is too late.  (more)

Baba Yaga is a witch in the enchanted Forest. When the viewer's mother, the Chief, falls ill, it is up to them and their sister Magda to enter the forbidden rainforest, uncover its hidden mysteries and get the cure from Baba Yaga.  (more)

You’ve just crashed your spaceship on a strange planet. Your only tools for survival are a fading bonfire, a surly robot and a limited supply of nourishment cylinders. And what's that sneaking around out there in the dark alien jungle?  (more)