Watercolor Studios

Watercolor Studios is an ATBW Blog company that was founded in 1999 and is a member of the ATBW 12, which consists of all 12 ATBW Blog companies owned by ATBW Blog.

The company is well known for it's Watercolor Sheep franchise, which was the first online racing game released in 1999. It was also known for it's infamous Color Control game released in 2006.

Watercolor Studios was also the first company out of all eleven to be acquired by ATBW Blog in 2002, though it's rivals at that time were founded years before, with Merrill Studios being the oldest, having been founded on April 30, 1990, and being acquired later on May 12, 2006. Langile Corporation was split in two on May 30, 2003, months after Watercolor Studios was acquired by ATBW Blog.

History
Watercolor Studios was established in 1999 by Matthew Quartz after dreams of wanting to make the first successful online game on ATBW Blog, which in turn would become Watercolor Sheep. It was released on March 12, 1999 after only a few weeks of development using the site's game builder. It quickly became the most popular game on the site at the time and continued to be so in the early to mid 2000's, even after Calligraphy Deer was released in 2001 by Calligraphy Studios, which was founded the same year, and even remained popular after Deer Tracks in 2004.

On October 20, 2002, the company was hit by Tritose86V5, which attacked it's online game servers, primarily community servers, and was dismantled on December 6, 2002. This was followed by Deltahorse35V5 from February 4, 2003 to January 28, 2006 and caused a significant impact on Merrill Studios and Signature Studios, while Watercolor Studios mostly remained unimpacted.

It briefly became popular in the late 2000's following Tetrahorse04V1 that attacked Calligraphy Studios online servers, mostly Deer Tracks, which lasted from December 27, 2007 to May 3, 2009.