The following list of animation studios presents past and present organizations similar to artists studios

Studio

A studio is an artist's or worker's workroom, or the catchall term for an artist and his or her employees who work within that studio. This can be for the purpose of architecture, painting, pottery , sculpture, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, radio or television...

 but principally dedicated to the production and distribution of animated films. Such studios may be actual production facilities or corporate entities. Most are based in North America

North America

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, particularly the United States of America, but some are to be found in Asia

Asia

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 and Europe

Europe

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. Anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 studios (Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese animation) are also listed here.

Active animation studios

• A. Film
• A Squared Entertainment
  Andy Heyward
  Andrew A. "Andy" Heyward is the former Chairman and CEO of DIC Entertainment, an animation production company.Heyward was born in New York City, New York, the son of Sylvia and Louis M. "Deke" Heyward, who was vice president in charge of development at Barry & Enright Productions...
  
  
• Aardman Animations
  Aardman Animations
  Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol, United Kingdom. The studio is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit...
  
  
• Ace&Son
  Asterisk animation
  Ace&Son is a design and animation production company in New York. Ace & Son Moving Picture Company LLC creates animation and graphics for commercials, television, feature films and any other media you can conjure....
  
  
• Act3animation
  Act3animation
  Act3animation is an Australian CGI company, specializing in character animation, based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1992 by current creative director, Mike Hollands, Act3 has produced various TVCs, FMVs and short films.-History:...
  
  
• Adelaide Productions
  Adelaide Productions
  Adelaide Productions is an animation division of Sony Pictures Television.Originally named Columbia TriStar Children's Television, Adelaide has produced numerous animated television series including:*Jumanji: The Series...
  
  
• AKOM
  AKOM
  AKOM Productions is a South Korean animation studio in Songpa-gu, Seoul that has provided much work since its conception in 1985 by Nelson Shin. Its biggest claim to fame is the overseas animation for 200 episodes of The Simpsons, to which that number is consistently rising...
  
  
• Anima Studios
  Anima Studios
  Anima Studios is a Mexican animation studio founded in 2002 by Guillermo Cañedo White, Fernando De Fuentes, Fernando Pérez Gavilán, José Carlos García De Letona and Federico Unda...
  
  
• Animafilm
  Animafilm
  Animafilm is a Romanian animation studio, located in central Bucharest.The studio was created in 1964 from the animation division of Studioul Cinematografic Bucureşti...
  
  
• Animal Logic
  Animal Logic
  Animal Logic is an Australian digital visual effects company based at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia and Santa Monica, California. Established in 1991, Animal Logic's core business has traditionally been the design and production of high-end visual effects for commercials and television programs,...
  
  
• Animation Collective
  Animation Collective
  Animation Collective is an American animated cartoon studio formed in 2003. The studio is based in New York City and is founded by Larry Schwarz...
  
  
• Animax Entertainment
  Animax Entertainment
  Animax Entertainment is an animation and interactive production studio based in Van Nuys, California. Animax's clients include Disney, ESPN, Warner Bros., National Geographic, Sesame Workshop, WWE and many others. Animax has a particular expertise in Adobe Flash animation and has produced work...
  
  
• Anzovin Studio
  Anzovin Studio
  Anzovin Studio is an animation studio located in Florence, Massachusetts. Founded in 1999 by the father-and-son team of Steve and Raf Anzovin, they provide character animation and cinematics for television and game production...
  
  
• Arc Productions
• Atomic Cartoons
  Atomic Cartoons
  Atomic Cartoons is a Canadian animation company founded in 1999 by Trevor Bentley, Mauro Casalese, Rob Simmons and Emmy Award winner Rob Davies.-Productions:*Atomic Betty...
  
  
• Augenblick Studios
  Augenblick Studios
  Augenblick Studios is an independent animation studio located in New York City. Founded in 1999 by Aaron Augenblick, their team of artists has created a wide array of animated shorts for television, film, and the Internet. Clients include the Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Spike Lee, PBS, MTV,...
  
  
• Bagdasarian Productions
  Bagdasarian Productions
  Bagdasarian Productions is an American production company which holds the rights to Alvin and the Chipmunks and related intellectual property assets. It is owned and operated by Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. and Janice Karman...
  
  
• Bee Train
  Bee Train
  , commonly referred simply as Bee Train, is a Japanese animation studio founded by Kōichi Mashimo in 1997. Since their involvement with Noir, .hack//Sign, and Madlax they have a strong following in the yuri fandom for being involved in series portraying strong female leads with speculatively...
  
  
• Bent Image Lab
  Bent Image Lab
  BENT IMAGE LAB is a production company and animation studio specializing in commercials, music videos, short films, and visual effects for feature films. Located in Portland, Oregon the company was founded in 2002 by partners David Daniels, Ray Di Carlo, and Chel White...
  
  
• Big Idea Productions
• Blue Sky Studios
  Blue Sky Studios
  Blue Sky Studios is an American CGI-animation studio which specializes in high-resolution, computer-generated character animation and rendering. It is owned by 20th Century Fox and located in Greenwich, Connecticut...
  
  
• Blue-Zoo
  Blue-Zoo Productions
  Blue-Zoo Productions Ltd. is an award winning UK based computer animation studio. Founded in 2000 by Tom Box, Oli Hyatt, Adam Shaw and Nic Sims, it mainly produces content for TV broadcast. It is most well known for creating the children's animation series Blue Cow as part of the BBC series The...
  
  
• bolexbrothers
  Bolexbrothers
  bolexbrothers is an independent British animation studio based in Bristol. The studio specialises in stop motion animation, producing numerous short films and commercials, as well as one stop motion feature film, The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb...
  
  
• BONES
  Bones (studio)
  is a Japanese anime studio. It has produced numerous series, including RahXephon, Wolf's Rain, Scrapped Princess, Eureka Seven, Angelic Layer, Darker than Black, Soul Eater, Ouran High School Host Club and two adaptions of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga along with Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto and...
  
  
• BRB International
• Brown Bag Films
  Brown bag films
  Brown Bag Films is an animation studio based in Dublin, Ireland. Established in 1994 by Cathal Gaffney and Darragh O'Connell, Brown Bag Films produce 3D character animation, including short films, features and TV series for international markets...
  
  
• Buzzco Associates
  Buzzco Associates
  Buzzco Associates, Inc. was founded in 1974 with Candy Kugel and Vincent Cafarelli as co-creative directors and Marilyn Kraemer as executive producer. Early work of the studio included the "I Want My MTV" campaign, and the "Top of the Hour" network ID for MTV. The spots mixed live action, rock...
  
  
• Bullwinkle Studios
  Jay Ward
  J Troplong "Jay" Ward was an American creator and producer of animated television cartoons. He produced animated series based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken...
  
  
• Cartoon Pizza/Jumbo Pictures
  Cartoon Pizza
  Cartoon Pizza is an animation company located in New York City. It was co-founded by Jim Jinkins and David Campbell as the successor to Jinkins' former company, Jumbo Pictures, Inc. Cartoon Pizza's logo is a picture of a pizza with a face in front of a globe and under the logo is the company's...
  
  
• Cartoon Network Studios
  Cartoon Network Studios
  Cartoon Network Studios is an American animation studio. A subsidiary of the Turner Broadcasting System , Cartoon Network Studios focuses on producing and developing animated programs only for and related to Cartoon Network...
  
  
• Cartoon Saloon
  Cartoon Saloon
  Cartoon Saloon is an Irish company which provides illustration, design, animation, film and TV services. The company is based in Kilkenny City. The company developed the successful cartoon series Skunk Fu!. Skunk Fu was nominated for a BAFTA Children's Award in October 2008. The company has...
  
  
• Charlex
  Charlex
  Charlex is an American animation studio set in New York City that has created and produced commercials and animation for decades.-History:...
  
  
• CinéGroupe
  CinéGroupe
  CinéGroupe Corporation is a Canadian animation studio based in Montreal, Quebec. The company also has offices in nearby Toronto and in the U.S. city of Los Angeles...
  
  
• Clockwork Zoo Animation
  Clockwork Zoo (Company)
  Clockwork Zoo, is the world's largest animation studio in South Africa.After creating the local action-adventure teen show Urbo: The Adventures of Pax Afrika, the company produced the animation for several international television series, including the fifth season of Caillou co-produced with the...
  
  
• Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment
  Collingwood O'Hare
  Collingwood O'Hare is a TV animation studio based in London headed by writer/director Tony Collingwood and producer Christopher O'Hare. Responsible for animated TV series 'Oscar's Orchestra', 'Dennis the Menace', 'Gordon the Garden Gnome', 'Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!' and 'The Secret Show', among...
  
  
• Cookie Jar Group
• Cosgrove Hall Films
  Cosgrove Hall Films
  Cosgrove Hall Films was a British animation studio based in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, that once was a major producer of children's television programmes. Cosgrove Hall's programmes are still seen in over eighty countries...
  
  
• Cosmic Toast Studios
  Cosmic Toast Studios
  Cosmic Toast Studios, currently headed by founding partner Kenny Gage and former William Morris Agency senior vice president David Kekst, is an entertainment company which focuses on developing and producing diverse content in film, television, FX, and animation.Their productions include one of the...
  
  
• Creative Capers Entertainment
  Creative Capers Entertainment
  Creative Capers Entertainment is an animation studio founded by Terry and Sue Shakespeare and David Molina in 1989. Based in Montrose, California, it specializes flash and hand-drawn animation in various feature films, television series, commercials, and CD-ROM and video games...
  
  
• Crest Animation Studios
  Crest Animation Studios
  Crest Animation Studios Ltd. is an Indian animation studio. It was founded by Shyam Raja Ramanna in 1990 under the name Crest Communications and it first went public in 1995...
  
  
• Cuckoo's Nest Studio
  Cuckoo's Nest Studio
  Cuckoo's Nest Studio is an animation studio based in Taiwan. The company is famous for their work on the Hanna-Barbera series, movies and specials of the 1980s, as well as overseas production for Nelvana's Care Bears franchise, Film Roman's Garfield and friends, DiC Entertainment's Inspector...
  
  
• Cuppa Coffee Studio
  Cuppa Coffee Studio
  Cuppa Coffee Studio is a Canadian animation studio in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; it was founded by Adam Shaheen and Bruce Alcock in December 1990...
  
  
• The Curiosity Company
  The Curiosity Company
  The Curiosity Company is Matt Groening's production company behind the television series Futurama and the 1999 TV film Olive, the Other Reindeer...
  
  
• Curious Pictures
  Curious Pictures
  Curious Pictures is an American animation studio and multi-media company set in New York City and Santa Monica that creates and produces television programs, commercials, animation and videogames for audiences worldwide....
  
  
• Def2shoot
  Def2shoot
  Def2shoot is a motion picture and advertising visual effects company, founded in 2002 and established in Paris, France.- Filmography :* Paris * L'Ennemi intime * La Môme...
  
  
• Digital Domain
  Digital Domain
  Digital Domain is a visual effects and animation company founded by film director James Cameron, Stan Winston and Scott Ross. It is based in Venice, Los Angeles, California...
  
  
• DisneyToon Studios
  DisneyToon Studios
  DisneyToon Studios is an American animation studio owned by The Walt Disney Company, responsible for producing direct-to-video and occasional theatrical films for Walt Disney Studios....
  
  
• Don Bluth Films, Inc.
  Don Bluth
  Donald Virgil "Don" Bluth is an American animator and independent studio owner. He is best known for his departure from The Walt Disney Company in 1979 and his subsequent directing of animated films such as The Secret of NIMH , An American Tail ,The Land Before Time , and All Dogs Go to Heaven ,...
  
  
• DreamWorks Animation
  DreamWorks Animation
  DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. is an American animation studio based in Glendale, California that creates animated feature films, television program and online virtual worlds...
  
  
• DR Movie
  DR Movie
  Dr. Movie is very well versed in the theory behind motion picture production and frequently works with Japanese companies on anime titles. Since 1991, he has been in an exclusive partnership with the Japanese animation studio Madhouse, and in 2001, Madhouse became a partial owner/investor. In 2006,...
  
  
• Dong Woo Animation
  Dong Woo Animation
  Dongwoo Animation Co. Ltd is an animation studio located in Seoul, South Korea. It has produced many animated series and films created and produced in the United States, Canada, South Korea and Japan...
  
  
• Eiken
  Eiken (studio)
  is an anime studio in Tokyo, Japan. The company was formerly known as Tele-Cartoon Japan or TCJ before changing its name in 1969 to establish Eiken. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Asatsu-DK.-External links:...
  
  
• EMation
  EMation
  Digital eMation is an animation studio located in Korea and founded in 1993. They specialize in digital animation.*Johnny Test*The Venture Brothers*Time Squad *The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy *Xiaolin Showdown*Evil Con Carne...
  
  
• Fatkat
  Fatkat
  FatKat animation was an animation studio located in Miramichi, New Brunswick. It was owned and operated by Gene Fowler and his employees. This company was started in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was taken over by Trainingscape which saw the creation of over 40 training films for various companies.In...
  
  
• Felix the Cat Productions
• Film Roman, Inc.
• Fine Arts Films
  Fine Arts Films
  Fine Arts Films is a production studio based in Northern England and Hollywood. It was founded in 1955 by animator John David Wilson as a means to preserve the notion of animation as an art form.-History:...
  
  
• Folimage
  Folimage
  Folimage is a French animation studio, based in Bourg-lès-Valence, Drôme, France. The studio produce animation films for cinema and TV . The company has created an animation school, La Poudrière, also in Valence...
  
  
• Fox Animation Studios
  Fox Animation Studios
  Fox Animation Studios is an American animation production company located in Phoenix, Arizona and is a division of 20th Century Fox. After the bankruptcy of Sullivan Bluth Studios in Ireland in 1994, animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman returned to the United States and were hired by 20th Century...
  
  
• Fred Wolf Films Dublin
  Fred Wolf Films Dublin
  Fred Wolf Films Dublin is an animation studio in Dublin, Ireland founded by Fred Wolf, and Jimmy Murakami . It was originally founded as MW . The studio produced The Point, the first U.S. animated special to air in prime time...
  
  
• Frederator Studios
  Frederator Studios
  Frederator Studios is an independent American production company founded by Fred Seibert in 1997, with its first series launching in 1998. The studio focuses primarily on artists who write their own shorts, series, and movies...
  
  
• Future Thought Productions
  Future Thought Productions
  Future Thought Productions is a creative animation studio that creates, produces or contributes to film, television, web and mobile animation. Future Thought is amongst the first studios in the world to have employed Macromedia's Flash software for the UNICEF television series Meena along with...
  
  
• Gainax
  Gainax
  is a Japanese anime studio famous for productions such as Gunbuster, The Wings of Honneamise, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann which have gone on to critical acclaim and commercial success, as well as for their association with...
  
  
• Global Mechanic
  Global Mechanic
  Global Mechanic Media is an award-winning animation studio headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. It was founded by Bruce Alcock and Ann Marie Fleming in 1995 as Tricky Pictures in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  
• Gonzo
• Group TAC
  Group TAC
  Group TAC was a Japanese animation and computer graphics studio located in Shibuya, Tokyo, and founded in 1968. They have worked on movies, videos, TV shows, and commercials, and have contributed to all stages of the process, including planning, production, sound effects, and so on...
  
  
• Guru Studios
  Guru Studios
  Guru Studio is an Canadian animation studio based in Toronto, Canada. The company has won various industry awards and has been featured in several international film festivals.Guru won a Telly Award in 2010 for their short film Hazed...
  
  
• H5
• Hanho Heung-Up
• Head-Gear Animation
• Hong Ying Animation
  Hong Ying Animation
  Hong Ying Animation is an animation studio located in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China and Shanghai, China. It was founded in 1986.-Works:Hong Ying animated, inked, and/or painted for the following shows:*Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog...
  
  
• House of Cool
  House of Cool
  House of Cool Studios is a Toronto, Canada-based pre-production animation studio founded in 2004 by animation veteran Ricardo Curtis and his business partner Wes Lui, specializing in designing and storyboarding of films, TV series and commercials...
  
  
• Ilion Animation Studios
  Ilion Animation Studios
  Ilion Animation Studios is an animation studio based in Madrid . The studio was established by the founders of Pyro Studios, a video game development studio, to create state-of-the-art computer-animated movies for theatrical release around the world, using purpose-built technology enabling it to...
  
  
• Illumination Entertainment
  Illumination Entertainment
  Illumination Entertainment is an American film production company, founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007. It is owned by Universal Studios and based in Santa Monica, California. It is best known for its 2010 animated feature Despicable Me.- History :...
  
  
• Imagi Animation Studios
  Imagi Animation Studios
  Imagi Animation Studios is an animation studio that was established in 2000 by Imagi International Holdings Limited , a listed company on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.-Background:...
  
  
• Industrial Light & Magic
• J.C.Staff
  J.C.STAFF
  , is a Japanese animation studio founded in January 1986. Their first release was the three episode OVA Sengoku Kidan Yōtōden, in 1987. They have produced several well-known anime series, such as Revolutionary Girl Utena, Excel Saga, Shingetsutan Tsukihime, Shakugan no Shana, Toaru Majutsu no...
  
  
• Jetix Animation Concepts
  Jetix Animation Concepts
  Jetix Concept Animation was an American brand owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its programming was previously seen on ABC Family and Toon Disney; some, soon to be one, of these programs can now be seen on Jetix's successor in the US, Disney XD....
  
  
• JibJab
  JibJab
  JibJab is a digital entertainment studio based in Venice, California. Founded in 1999 by Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, it was noticed during the 2004 US presidential election when their video of George W. Bush and John Kerry singing "This Land is Your Land" became a hit. The company creates,...
  
  
• John Lemmon Films
  John Lemmon Films
  John Lemmon Films is a traditional character animation studio based in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, and is listed among five “prominent animation houses”. The company was founded in 1984 by John Lemmon and Mike Rosinski...
  
  
• Kandor Graphics
  Kandor Graphics
  Kandor Graphics is an animation studio based in Granada .-Filmography:*The Missing Lynx - Plot: Follows the adventures of a group of animals in their quest to escape from being kidnapped by an unscrupulous hunter, hired by a benevolent millionaire to start a new Noah's ark...
  
  
• Klasky Csupo
  Klasky Csupo
  Klasky Csupo, Inc. is a multimedia entertainment production company located in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, founded by artist/producer, Arlene Klasky and animator, Gábor Csupó.- History :...
  
  
• Koko Enterprises
  Koko Enterprises
  Koko Enterprises is an animation studio located in South Korea. It was founded by Myong Ok Jeon. The owners are Tokyo Movie Shinsha and Sega. Koko has animated and provided ink and paint for the following series and movies:*Tweety's High-Flying Adventure...
  
  
• Kyoto Animation
  Kyoto Animation
  , abbreviated , is a Japanese animation studio located in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 1981, became a limited company in 1985 and then became a corporation in 1999. Presided by Hideaki Hatta, the company is affiliated with noted studio Sunrise and is also parent to the studio...
  
  
• LAIKA
  Laika
  Laika was a Soviet space dog that became the first animal to orbit the Earth – as well as the first animal to die in orbit.As little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the time of Laika's mission, and the technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, there...
  
  
• Lambie-Nairn
  Lambie-Nairn
  Lambie-Nairn is an international branding agency within the WPP Group, headquartered in London with offices in Munich, Madrid, Abu Dhabi and Prague...
  
  
• Les' Copaque Production
  Les' Copaque Production
  Les' Copaque Production is a MSC-certified animation and film production company based in Shah Alam, Malaysia. Founded in 2005, it is best known for the production of the commercially and critically acclaimed TV series Upin & Ipin and Geng: The Adventure Begins.-History:Les' Copaque was established...
  
  
• Littlenobody
  Littlenobody
  Littlenobody, founded by Karen Penman, is a small animation collective working from the South East of England.Littlenobody Productions specialise in animation and have screened projects in competition at Bradford Animation Festival, Encounters Film Festival, Northern Lights Film Festival and...
  
  
• Lucasfilm Animation
  Lucasfilm Animation
  Lucasfilm Animation is an animation studio founded in 2003. In 2008 it was officially launched after the premiere of Star Wars: The Clone Wars...
  
  
• Mac Guff
  Mac Guff
  Mac Guff is a French visual effects company based in both Los Angeles, USA and Paris, France, where it is headquartered. Mac Guff specializes in the creation of computer-generated imagery for commercials, music videos and feature films. 270 graphic artists, vfx supervisors and producers, computer...
  
  
• Madhouse
  Madhouse (company)
  is a Japanese animation studio, founded in 1972 by ex–Mushi Pro animators including Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, Rintaro, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. It has created and helped to produce many well known shows, starting with TV anime series Ace o Nerae! in 1973, and including western favourites Ninja...
  
  
• March Entertainment
  March Entertainment
  March Entertainment is a Canadian producer of digital animated entertainment for television and the World Wide Web. The company's properties include the television series Chilly Beach, Maple Shorts, Yam Roll and Dex Hamilton....
  
  
• Marvel Animation
  Marvel Animation
  Marvel Animation, LLC is an American animation production company. The Marvel Entertainment subsidiary was incorporated on January 25, 2008 to direct Marvel's efforts in animation and home entertainment markets...
  
  
• Marwah Films & Video Studios
  Marwah Films & Video Studios
  Marwah Studios Enterprise , NOIDA near New Delhi, has produced over 2500 films and television shows during the past 17 years. It is founded by Sandeep Marwah who has been in films, television and theatre for the last 25 years....
  
  
• Melnitsa Animation Studio
  Melnitsa Animation Studio
  Melnitsa Animation Studio is a Saint Petersburg-based Russian studio which produces animated films. There is also a section of the studio devoted to digital special effects for the use of its own projects as well as for live-action films....
  
  
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation, or MGM Animation for short, was the animation division of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture studio in Hollywood, California, USA that specializes in animated productions for theatrical features and television...
  
  
• Mike Young Productions
  Mike Young Productions
  Mike Young Productions LLC is an animation studio that produces children's TV series. It is named after co-founder and partner Mike Young, and is part of the Moonscoop Group...
  
  
• Millimages
  Millimages
  Millimages is a French television production studio, which produces both animated and live action programming. The studio was founded in 1990.-Progammes & Movies:*Mimi Cracra *Caroline and her Friends...
  
  
• Mirari Films
  Mirari Films
  -Animations / Additional live-action:*Baxter and McGuire - Comedy Central*Cheetah with No Spots*Cute Attack*Destination Domination*The Drinky Crow Show - Adult Swim*Les Gnoufs*Mongo Wrestling Alliance - Adult Swim...
  
  
• Mondo Mini Shows
  Mondo Mini Shows
  Mondo Mini Shows is an American company that produces animation targeted at teens and young adults. Mondo Mini Shows are distributed as an ad-supported, virtual animation channel via the Internet, podcasts and mobile...
  
  
• MoonScoop Group
  MoonScoop Group
  The MoonScoop Group is a French company that creates and publishes animated television series with offices in U.K. and U.S.A.. It was established in 2003...
  
  
• National Film Board of Canada
  National Film Board of Canada
  The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's twelve-time Academy Award-winning public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions...
  
  
• Nelvana
  Nelvana
  Nelvana Limited is a Canadian entertainment company founded in 1971 known for its work in children's animation. It was named by founders Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert and Clive A. Smith after a Canadian comic book superheroine created by Adrian Dingle in the 1940s...
  
  
• Nickelodeon Animation Studios
• Nippon Animation
  Nippon Animation
  is a Japanese animation studio. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, with chief offices in the Ginza district of Chūō and production facilities in Tama City....
  
  
• O Entertainment/Omation Animation Studio
  O Entertainment
  O Entertainment is a production company founded by Steve Oedekerk in 1990. Among O Entertainment productions such as the Thumb series , Santa vs...
  
  
• Pacific Data Images
  Pacific Data Images
  Pacific Data Images is a computer animation production company that was bought by DreamWorks SKG. The company is now known as PDI/DreamWorks and is half of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., the public company formed by merging PDI and the feature animation division of DreamWorks.-History:PDI was...
  
  
• PannóniaFilm
  PannóniaFilm
  Pannonia Film Studio is the largest animation studio in Hungary, based in the capital of Budapest.-History:...
  
  
• Paramount Animation
• Pentamedia Graphics
• The People's Republic of Animation
  The People's Republic Of Animation
  The People's Republic of Animation is an animation studio based in Adelaide, Australia. Since starting out on music videos for Australian bands in 2003, The People’s Republic of Animation has grown into a highly prolific studio creating international award-winning short films, TV commercials and...
  
  
• Pixar
  Pixar
  Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...
  
  
• Plus One Animation
  Plus One Animation
  Plus One Animation is an animation studio located in Seoul, South Korea. Plus One was founded in 1991. Their biggest contribution is for the Mike Judge series King of the Hill, with upwards of 80+ episodes animated, but they also animated the newer episodes of Doug and some episodes of Recess...
  
  
• Post Amazers
  Post Amazers
  Post Amazers is an animation and post-production facility that provides creative services from concept to execution including art direction, broadcast design, 2D/3D animation, post-production, sound design etc....
  
  
• Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc.
  Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc.
  Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based animation studio that develops and produces traditional and Flash animation for television series, motion pictures, video games cinemas, commercials, and the internet...
  
  
• Premavision/Clokey Productions
• Production I.G
• Production Reed
• Radicial Axis
  Radical Axis (studio)
  Radical Axis is an animation studio headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States known for its diverse work in both episodic television and commercials...
  
  
• Rainmaker Digital Effects
  Rainmaker Digital Effects
  Rainmaker, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada and maintaining an office in Los Angeles, California, is an award-winning visual effects, 3D animation and post-production company with a 28 year history in feature film, television, commercials, and games...
  
  
• Renegade Animation
  Renegade Animation
  Renegade Animation is an animation studio, located in Glendale, California, which currently specializes in Macromedia Flash/Toon Boom animation. It was founded by former Disney and Warner Bros...
  
  
• Richard Williams Animation
  Richard Williams
  Richard Williams is a Canadian animator. He is best known for serving as animation director on Disney/Amblin's Who Framed Roger Rabbit and for his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler...
  
  
• RingTales
  RingTales
  RingTales is an animation production company that creates short online cartoons from existing print comics. Their flagship series, The New Yorker Animated Cartoons, was nominated for a 2008 Webby Awards for Online Animation.-List of series:...
  
  
• Rubicon Group Holding
  Rubicon Group Holding
  Rubicon Group Holding, also known as Rubicon Studios, is a Middle Eastern digital content production company based in Jordan. Founded in 2004, Rubicon develops entertainment and educational content across multiple platforms and handheld devices including feature films, television series, short...
  
  
• Rhythm and Hues Studios
  Rhythm and Hues Studios
  Rhythm & Hues Studios is a visual effects studio serving the major film studios. It is known for its computer-generated 3D character animation. Recognized as one of the top facilities of its kind in the world, Rhythm & Hues has contributed to more than 150 feature films...
  
  
• Rough Draft Studios
  Rough Draft Studios
  Rough Draft Studios, Inc. is an animation studio based in Glendale, California, United States, with its sister studio Rough Draft Korea located in Seoul, South Korea. RDS was founded in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California by Gregg Vanzo...
  
  
• Sae Rom
  Saerom
  Saerom Animation, Inc is an animation studio located in South Korea which was founded in 1987 by Kil Whan Kim. While it has been animating shows from US animation studios, the company has started making their cartoons from 2003.-Productions:...
  
  
• Savage Studios Ltd.
  Savage Steve Holland
  Savage Steve Holland is an animator and film director who wrote and directed the cult films Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer , starring John Cusack. He also directed the film How I Got Into College , and animated the "Whammy" on the game show Press Your Luck. He later went on to create and...
  
  
• Se-ma-for
  Se-ma-for
  Se-ma-for is a Polish animation studio. Founded in Łódź, Poland, in 1947, it has created many animated cartoons and stop motion puppet animations, for young and mature audiences...
  
  
• Six Point Harness
  Six Point Harness
  Six Point Harness Studios is an animation studio located in Los Angeles, California. 6PH has provided animation for MTV's series Where My Dogs At? and Good Vibes, animated sequences for feature films Black Dynamite, Eurotrip, and produced The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!. Greg Franklin serves...
  
  
• Skycron
  Skycron
  Skycron is an animation and film studio located in Ottawa, Canada, which concentrates on original properties as well as television commercials and public service announcements...
  
  
• Smallfilms
  Smallfilms
  Smallfilms was a British company that made animated television programmes for children, from 1959 to the 1980s. It was a partnership between Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin . Several very popular series of short films were made using stop-motion animation, including The Clangers, Noggin the Nog,...
  
  
• ŠAF
  ŠAF
  Škola Animiranog Filma is a school of animation in Čakovec, Croatia.The intent of the program is not career development, but seeks to promote cognition, imagination, perseverance, cooperation, and pride in one's work for children between the ages of 8 and 12 years old. Edo Lukman has been the head...
  
  
• Shademaker Productions
  Henry Selick
  Henry Selick is an American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline...
  
  
• SHAFT
  Shaft (company)
  is a Japanese animation studio founded on September 1, 1975 by Hiroshi Wakao. They are best known for their unique use of gags and references notably in Pani Poni Dash!, Maria Holic, Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei, Hidamari Sketch, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Bakemonogatari series.- History :Shaft was...
  
  
• Sony Pictures Animation
  Sony Pictures Animation
  Sony Pictures Animation is an American computer-animated film production company owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, founded in May 2002. It is working closely with Sony Pictures Imageworks, which takes care of the digital production...
  
  
• Soup2Nuts
  Soup2Nuts
  Soup2Nuts is an American animation studio founded by Tom Snyder, Loren Bouchard, Brendon Small, Jody Snider, and Amanda Normoyle. It is known for its animated comedy series...
  
  
• Soyuzmultfilm
  Soyuzmultfilm
  Soyuzmultfilm is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. Over the years it has gained international attention and respect, garnering numerous awards both at home and abroad. Noted for a great variety of style, it is regarded as the most influential animation studio of the former Soviet Union...
  
  
• Sparx*
• Spectrum Animation
  Spectrum Animation
  The Spectrum Animation Studio was an animation studio in Japan, made up of former TMS Entertainment employees. Spectrum animated several episodes of Batman: The Animated Series....
  
  
• Spümcø
  Spümcø
  Spümcø, Inc. was an American animation production company based in Los Angeles, California. The studio produced three traditionally animated series, two Flash-animated cartoon series, two music videos, five animated shorts, and a comic book. The company also went on to produce content for a few...
  
  
• Spy Pictures
  Spy Pictures
  Spy Pictures was established in 1999 as a London based production company making short films, commercials, music promos and title sequences, mainly animated...
  
  
• Start Anima
• Stretch Films
• Studio 4°C
  Studio 4°C
  is a Japanese animation studio founded by Eiko Tanaka in 1986. The name comes from the temperature at which water is most dense.-History:STUDIO4°C has produced numerous feature films, OVAs, and shorts. Early film titles include; Memories , Spriggan and Princess Arete...
  
  
• Studio B
  Studio B Productions
  DHX Media Vancouver is a Canadian animation studio based in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada.-Studio B Productions original shows:*The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers...
  
  
• Studio DEEN
  Studio DEEN
  is a Japanese company that produces anime. Three years after Sunrise was founded in 1972, Studio Deen was established by Sunrise's members in 1975. As a result of this, anime shows such as Cowboy Bebop that were produced by Sunrise may have had assistance from Studio Deen.-Produced anime:* Urusei...
  
  
• Studio Comet
  Studio Comet
  is an animation studio based in Tokyo, Japan. It was established January 21, 1986.-Notable staff:*Hiroshi Kanazawa *Kazuo Harada *Shin Misawa...
  
  
• Studio Gallop
• Studio Ghibli
  Studio Ghibli
  is a Japanese animation and film studio founded in June 1985. The company's logo features the character Totoro from Hayao Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro...
  
  
• Studio Pierrot
  Studio Pierrot
  is a Japanese animation/animation studio, founded in 1979 by former employees of Tatsunoko Production. Its headquarters is located in Mitaka, Tokyo.The company has a simple logo of the face of a clown...
  
  
• Sumo Dojo
• Sunrise
  Sunrise (company)
  is a Japanese animation studio and production enterprise. It is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings. Its former name was Nippon Sunrise, and prior to that, Sunrise Studios...
  
  
• Sunwoo Entertainment
  Sunwoo Entertainment
  Sunwoo Entertainment is an animation studio located in South Korea that has been very active since its conception in March 1989. It began by producing animation mainly for Disney Afternoon TV series, such as Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers and Darkwing Duck, and soon expanded by providing animation...
  
  
• Tatsunoko Productions
• Tim Burton Animation Co.
  Tim Burton
  Timothy William "Tim" Burton is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...
  
  
• Titmouse
  Chris Prynoski
  Chris Prynoski born November 1, 1971, is an American animator, director, and producer.Prynoski was born in Trenton, New Jersey and grew up in Bordentown, New Jersey. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1994. He then spent several years working in the industry in New York, mostly on his...
  
  
• Toei Animation
  Toei Animation
  Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name...
  
  
• Teletoon Canada
  Télétoon (Canadian TV channel)
  Télétoon is a Canadian French language Category A specialty channel that specializes in animation programming. Télétoon is owned by Teletoon Canada Inc; a 50/50 partnership between Astral Media and Corus Entertainment...
  
  
• TMS
  Tokyo Movie Shinsha
  , formerly known as , is a Japanese animation studio, founded on October 1946. One of the oldest and most prominent anime studios in Japan, it has also produced numerous animated series airing in other countries such as France, the United States, and Italy. The company currently uses "TMS...
  
  
• Toon City
  Toon City
  Toon City is an animation studio located in Philippines. Its primary contractor is The Walt Disney Company and its DisneyToon Studios division, which produces animated TV series and direct-to-video films. They have also done a few commercials and some direct-to-video work for Warner Bros. and...
  
  
• Toondra
  Toondra
  Toondra is a multiawarded Russian animation studio.The most well known Adobe Flash music videos for music bands Leningrad , Stu, Skafandr band, Multfilmy, Scratch, Robin Vood....
  
  
• Toonz
  Toonz India Ltd
  Toonz Animation India Pvt. Ltd. is an animation company in India. It is the animation arm of the Singapore-based Toonz Group, which has diverse interests in production and distribution of live-action feature films, digital and gaming content, licensing and merchandising, and media-related...
  
  
• Universal Animation Studios
  Universal Animation Studios
  Universal Animation Studios , is an American animation studio which is a division of Universal Studios....
  
  
• Varga Studio
  Varga Studio
  Varga Studio, Ltd. is an animation studio located in Hungary. It is currently one of Europe's nine leading animation houses, and while most of its work is for European animation, it occasionally animates for American series as well...
  
  
• Vanguard Animation
  Vanguard Animation
  Vanguard Animation, LLC. is an American animation studio founded in 2004 by producer, John H. Williams. It produces computer animated films. Films produced include its debut film Valiant, Happily N'Ever After and Space Chimps....
  
  
• Walt Disney Animation Studios
• Walt Disney Television Animation
  Walt Disney Television Animation
  Disney Television Animation is an American animation studio that is the TV animation production arm of the Disney-ABC Television Group, owned by The Walt Disney Company, dedicated to creating, developing and producing animated television series, films, specials and other projects.Established in...
  
  
• Wang Film Productions
  Wang Film Productions
  Wang Film Productions is one of the oldest and most prolific Taiwanese animation studios...
  
  
• Warner Bros. Animation
  Warner Bros. Animation
  Warner Bros. Animation is the animation division of Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner. The studio is closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters, among others. The studio is the successor to Warner Bros...
  
  
• W!LDBRAIN
  Wild Brain
  Wild Brain is an award-winning entertainment company that develops and produces television programming, motion pictures, commercial content and licensed merchandise...
  
  
• Williams Street Studios
• Xebec
• Xilam
  Xilam
  Xilam is a French production company that specializes in animated series feature films. Originally founded as Gaumont Multimédia, the company adopted it's current name in 1999...
  
  
• Xyzoo Animation
  Xyzoo Animation
  Xyzoo Animation is an animation studio founded by director/animator Lindsay van Blerk in 1991. Situated in Cape Town, South Africa, the studio has produced five stop-motion/clay-animated films, three of which have won a number of awards. All were commissioned by New York-based Billy Budd Films...
  
  
• Yowza! Animation
  Yowza! Animation
  Yowza! Animation is an animation studio based in Toronto, Canada and founded by Claude Chiasson in June 1996. They specialize in providing additional animation and/or clean-up and ink-and-paint for various shorts and feature films.*Mr...
  
  
• Zagreb school of animated films
  Zagreb School of Animated Films
  Zagreb school of animated films is an animation film studio located in Zagreb, Croatia and is a part of the Zagreb Film company. It is represented by authors like Nikola Kostelac, Vatroslav Mimica, Dušan Vukotić and Vladimir Kristl...
  
  
• Zinkia Entertainment
  Zinkia Entertainment
  Zinkia Entertainment is a company founded in 2001 by David Cantolla, Colman López and José María Castillejo. Located in Madrid, Spain, its main focus is to create animated series for TV and games for mobile devices and for game platforms...
  
  

Defunct animation studios

• Adventure Cartoon Productions
  Adventure Cartoon Productions
  Adventure Cartoon Productions was a television production studio that created the cartoon series The Mighty Hercules and Felix the Cat in association with Trans-Lux Television for broadcast from 1963 to 1966. The company worked from the cartoon division of Paramount Pictures, utilizing music...
  
  
• Alphanim
  Alphanim
  Alphanim was a French independent animation production and distribution company, founded in 1997, with a catalogue ranging from pre-school through teens and family properties...
  
   (the French independent animation production and distribution company)
• Amblimation
  Amblimation
  Amblimation was the animation production arm of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and was active from 1989 until about 1997.The feature animation studio was located in London, England, UK...
  
   (the animation production arm of Steven Spielberg
  Steven Spielberg
  Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
  
  's Amblin Entertainment
  Amblin Entertainment
  Amblin Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded by director and producer Steven Spielberg and film producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in 1981. Amblin is only a production company, and has never distributed its own movies, nor has it fully financed its...
  
  )
• Androscoggin Animation
  Camp Androscoggin
  Camp Androscoggin is an all-boys summer camp in Wayne, Maine, and one of the oldest in the state. It is ACA accredited. It was founded in 1906 by Edward M...
  
   (1988-2001)
• Barré Studio
  Barré Studio
  Barré Studio was, in all probability, the first film studio dedicated to animation . It was founded by Raoul Barré and William Nolan in 1914. They began with advertising films , then got a series with Edison called the Animated Grouch Chaser...
  
   (1914–1923) (after 1917 called Bud Fisher Films Corporation)
• Bakshi Productions
  Ralph Bakshi
  Ralph Bakshi is an Israeli-American director of animated and live-action films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 1992, he directed nine theatrically released feature films, five of which he wrote...
  
  /Ralph's Spot
• Bill Melendez Productions
• Bird Studios
  Bird Studios
  Bird Studios is a UK production company specializing in design, computer animation & visual effects for TV, film and the digital world....
  
  
• Bray Productions
  Bray Productions
  Bray Productions was the dominant animation studio based in the United States in the years before World War I.- History :The studio was founded in December 1914 by J. R. Bray, perhaps the first studio entirely devoted to animation, and series animation at that...
  
  
• Burbank Films Australia
  Burbank Films Australia
  Burbank Films Australia was an Australian animation-production company that in a span of eight years produced over thirty different animated films...
  
   (1981–1988)
• (Colossal) Pictures
  (Colossal) Pictures
  Pictures was an award-winning entertainment company that developed and produced television programming, network branding, and film titles....
  
   (1976-2000, absorbed into W!ILDBRAIN
  Wild Brain
  Wild Brain is an award-winning entertainment company that develops and produces television programming, motion pictures, commercial content and licensed merchandise...
  
  )
• Chuck Jones Productions
• CINAR Films (1976-2004, now Cookie Jar Entertainment
  Cookie Jar Entertainment
  The Cookie Jar Group is an American and Canadian producer of children’s entertainment, consumer products and educational materials...
  
  )
• DiC
  DIC
  - Science :* Differential interference contrast microscopy, an illumination technique in optical microscopy* Diisopropylcarbodiimide, a reagent in organic chemistry* Digital Integrating Computer, a digital implementation of a Differential Analyzer...
  
   (1971-2008, now Cookie Jar Entertainment
  Cookie Jar Entertainment
  The Cookie Jar Group is an American and Canadian producer of children’s entertainment, consumer products and educational materials...
  
  )
• Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (1924–1928)
• DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
  DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
  DePatie-Freleng Enterprises was a Hollywood-based animation production company, active from 1963 to 1981. They produced theatrical cartoons, animated series, commercials, title sequences and television specials. Notable among these is The Pink Panther film titles and cartoon shorts and the Dr....
  
   (1963–1981)
• DNA Productions
  DNA Productions
  DNA Productions, Inc. was an animation studio in Dallas, Texas, founded by John A. Davis and Keith Alcorn in 1987. It was a full service animation company providing script to screen services for the commercial and corporate industry...
  
  
• Ellipse Programme
  Ellipse Programmé
  EllipsAnimé is a French animation studio that produces television programs. It was founded in 1987....
  
  
• Filmation
  Filmation
  Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live action programming for television during the latter half of the 20th century. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1963...
  
   (1963–1989)
• FilmFair
  FilmFair
  FilmFair was a British production company and animation studio that produced stop motion children's television series and animated cartoons from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s...
  
  
• Fleischer Studios
  Fleischer Studios
  Fleischer Studios, Inc., was an American corporation which originated as an Animation studio located at 1600 Broadway, New York City, New York...
  
   (1921–1942), Famous Studios
  Famous Studios
  Famous Studios was the animation division of the film studio Paramount Pictures from 1942 to 1967. Famous was founded as a successor company to Fleischer Studios, after Paramount acquired the aforementioned studio and ousted its founders, Max and Dave Fleischer, in 1941...
  
   (1942–1956) and Paramount Cartoon Studios (1956–1967) (see also The Harveytoons Show
  The Harveytoons Show
  The Harveytoons Show is a television series presenting theatrical animated cartoons produced from October 1950 until March 1962 and produced by Famous Studios, featuring Harvey Comics characters and series including: Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Audrey, Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare, Baby Huey,...
  
  )
• Format Films
  Format Films
  Format Films was a television animation studio which was founded by Herbert Klynn in 1959 with Jules Engel as vice president, Herb McIntosh and Joseph Mugnaini. It was most active during the 1960s, producing episodes of The Alvin Show, Popeye, and The Lone Ranger...
  
  
• Games Animation
• Gaumont British Animation (1946–1950)
• George Pal Studio
  George Pál
  George Pal , born György Pál Marczincsak, was a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre...
  
  
• Ghost Planet Industries
• Grantray-Lawrence Animation
  Grantray-Lawrence Animation
  Grantray-Lawrence Animation was an animated cartoon studio active from 1954 to 1967 and founded by Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson , and Robert Lawrence....
  
   (1954–1967)
• Golden Films
  Golden Films
  Golden Films is an American production studio founded in 1992 by Diane Eskenazi. The studio produces direct to video animated features. Many of its animated titles tell the same stories as popular Disney films.- Distribution :...
  
  
• H-Gun
  H-Gun
  H-Gun was an innovative film/animation consortium which started in Chicago and expanded to include a San Francisco studio.Their early videos included work for the band Ministry, LaTour, Nine Inch Nails, Public Enemy, De La Soul, Megadeth, Smashing Pumpkins, Killing Joke, Meat Beat Manifesto, Young...
  
   (1988-2001)
• Halas and Batchelor
  Halas and Batchelor
  Halas and Batchelor was an animation company founded by John Halas and his wife, Joy Batchelor. The company started as a small animation unit that created commercials for theatrical distribution...
  
  
• Hanna-Barbera
  Hanna-Barbera
  Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...
  
   (1957–2001)
• Harman-Ising Productions
  Harman and Ising
  Hugh Harman and Rudolf "Rudy" Ising were an American animation team best known for founding the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studios...
  
  
• ImageMovers Digital
  ImageMovers Digital
  ImageMovers Digital is a digital film studio run by director Robert Zemeckis and originally owned by The Walt Disney Company, later Universal Studios...
  
  
• International Film Service
  International Film Service
  International Film Service was an American animation studio created to exploit the popularity of the comic strips controlled by William Randolph Hearst.- History :...
  
   (1915–1918)
• Jack Kinney Productions
• Jay Ward Productions
  Jay Ward Productions
  Jay Ward Productions was an Amercian animated television cartoon series production company, founded in 1949 by American animator Jay Ward. It made extensive use of limited animation techniques....
  
   (1958–1984)
• Jetlag Productions
  Jetlag Productions
  Jetlag Productions was an American-Japanese animation studio that, just like the similar studio Golden Films, has created a number of animated films based on different, popular children's stories, while at the same time creating a few original productions...
  
   (1992–1996)
• Kroyer Films
  Kroyer Films
  Kroyer Films is a pioneering animation studio formed in 1986 by animator Bill Kroyer and his wife Susan Kroyer and is one of the earliest studios to combine computer and hand-drawn animation. Kroyer Films is best known for producing the short film Technological Threat and the 20th Century Fox...
  
  
• Kurtz & Friends
  Kurtz & Friends
  Kurtz & Friends is an animation studio founded by Bob Kurtz in 1981. Based in Burbank, California, the studio was known for producing films and television commercials...
  
   (1981-2007)
• Lacewood
  Lacewood Productions
  Lacewood Productions was an Canadian animation studio based in Ottawa, Ontario. It produced a television series, Katie and Orbie, as well as specials based on For Better or For Worse, and the 1990 feature The Nutcracker Prince...
  
  
• Laugh-O-Gram Studio
  Laugh-O-Gram Studio
  Laugh-O-Gram Studio was a film studio located on the second floor of the McConahay Building at 1127 East 31st in Kansas City, Missouri.The studio played a role in the early years of animation: it was home to many of the pioneers of animation, brought there by Walt Disney, and is said to be the...
  
   (1921–1923)
• Mathematical Applications Group, Inc.
  Mathematical Applications Group, Inc.
  Mathematical Applications Group, Inc. was an early computer technology company founded in 1966 by Dr. Philip Mittelman, it was located in Elmsford, New York. It was one of four companies hired to create the CGI animation for the film Tron...
  
   (MAGI)
• Leon Schlesinger Productions/Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. (a.k.a. "Termite Terrace" (1933–1953, 1953–1964 and 1967–1969), subcontracted to DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
  DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
  DePatie-Freleng Enterprises was a Hollywood-based animation production company, active from 1963 to 1981. They produced theatrical cartoons, animated series, commercials, title sequences and television specials. Notable among these is The Pink Panther film titles and cartoon shorts and the Dr....
  
   1964-1967, re-opened as Warner Bros. Animation
  Warner Bros. Animation
  Warner Bros. Animation is the animation division of Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner. The studio is closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters, among others. The studio is the successor to Warner Bros...
  
   in 1980)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio
  The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio was the in-house division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture studio in Hollywood, California during the Golden Age of American animation, responsible for producing animated short subjects to accompany MGM feature films in Loew's Theaters...
  
   (1937–1957) and MGM Animation/Visual Arts
  MGM Animation/Visual Arts
  MGM Animation/Visual Arts was an animation studio established in 1962 by animation director/producer Chuck Jones and producer Les Goldman as Sib Tower 12 Productions...
  
  /Sib Tower 12 Productions (1962–1970) (see also contemporary studio MGM Animation)
• Mushi Production
  Mushi Production
  Mushi Production , or Mushi Pro for short, is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan....
  
  
• Noyes &
  Eli Noyes
  Eli Noyes is an American animator who has created many animation and design for companies around the world.Eli brings a comedic flair to his productions, which include Monitor and Ace Award winning projects for television, award-winning films for children, inventive commercials and title...
  
   Laybourne
  Kit Laybourne
  Kit Laybourne is the Chief Creative Officer for The Whistle, a cross platform media company focusing on kids and sports. He was a founder of Oxygen Media where he executive produced animation, documentary and interactive shows. Kit was a Core Faculty Member in the MA program in Media Studies at the...
  
   (1978-1991)
• Phoenix Animation Studios
  Phoenix Animation Studios
  Phoenix Animation Studios was a short-lived animation studio headquartered in Toronto, Canada. It was formed in 1991 and closed down in 1998.-Filmography:*Journey to the Center of the Earth...
  
  
• Rankin-Bass
• Rembrandt Films
• Richard Williams Studio Ltd.
  Richard Williams
  Richard Williams is a Canadian animator. He is best known for serving as animation director on Disney/Amblin's Who Framed Roger Rabbit and for his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler...
  
   (1958-1992)
• Ruby-Spears Productions
  Ruby-Spears Productions
  Ruby-Spears Productions is a Burbank, California-based entertainment production company that specializes in animation...
  
  
• Skellington Productions
  Skellington Productions
  Skellington Productions was a company that was a joint venture between Walt Disney Animation Studios and director Tim Burton. The company specialized in stop motion animation and made use of the art in its two films....
  
  
• Sullivan-Bluth Studios
• Sunbow
  Sunbow Productions
  Sunbow Entertainment was an animation studio, founded in 1980 and owned up until 1998 by Griffin-Bacal Advertising in New York. The first animation efforts by Griffin-Bacal were producing the animated commercials for Hasbro's G.I...
  
  
• Terrytoons
  Terrytoons
  Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry. The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1929 to 1968. Its most popular characters included Mighty Mouse, Gandy Goose, Sourpuss, Dinky Duck, Deputy Dawg, Luno and Heckle and Jeckle; these cartoons and all of its...
  
   (1928–1968)
• Total Television
  Total Television
  Total Television was an American animation studio responsible for many well known American Saturday Morning cartoon television animated series.-History:...
  
   (1960-1968)
• Turner Feature Animation
• TVC Cartoons
  George Dunning
  George Garnett Dunning was a Canadian film maker and animator. He is best known for animating and directing the 1968 Beatles' film Yellow Submarine.-Biography:...
  
   (1961-1979, 1988-1997)
• Ub Iwerks Studio (1930–1936)
• United Productions of America
  United Productions of America
  United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American animation studio of the 1940s through present day, beginning with industrial films and World War II training films. In the late 1940s, UPA produced theatrical shorts for Columbia Pictures, most notably the Mr. Magoo series. In...
  
   (UPA) (1944–1964)
• Van Beuren Studios
  Van Beuren Studios
  Van Beuren Studios was an American animation studio that produced theatrical cartoons from 1928 to 1936.Producer Amedee J. van Beuren first became involved in the animation industry in 1920, when he formed a partnership with Paul Terry and formed the "Aesop's Fables Studio" for the production of...
  
   (1928–1936)
• Varga TVC Productions
  Varga Studio
  Varga Studio, Ltd. is an animation studio located in Hungary. It is currently one of Europe's nine leading animation houses, and while most of its work is for European animation, it occasionally animates for American series as well...
  
  
• Walt Disney Productions (1928-1984)
• Will Vinton Studios (1979-2005) (became LAIKA
  Laika
  Laika was a Soviet space dog that became the first animal to orbit the Earth – as well as the first animal to die in orbit.As little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the time of Laika's mission, and the technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, there...
  
  )
• Walter Lantz Studio
  Walter Lantz Studio
  Walter Lantz Productions was an American animation studio. It was in operation from 1928 to 1948 and then 1950 to 1972 and was the principal supplier of animation for Universal Studios, now part of the media conglomerate NBC Universal.-History:...
  
   (1929–1940, 1940–1948 and 1950–1972)
• Winkler Pictures (1921–1940) (also known as M.J. Winkler Productions, Charles Mintz Studios and Robert Winkler Productions), see also Screen Gems Studio (1940–1946)

Distribution companies

• 4Kids Entertainment
  4Kids Entertainment
  4Kids Entertainment is an American film and television production company in bankruptcy since April 2011. It is known for English-dubbing Japanese anime and specializing in the acquisition, production and licensing of children's entertainment around the United States...
  
  
• Classic Media
  Classic Media
  Classic Media, LLC, is an American production company and distributor of family programming. It was founded in 2000 by former Marvel Entertainment CEO Eric Ellenbogen and former Broadway Video executive John Engelman in hopes of acquiring mismanaged classic properties and giving exposure to...
  
  
• Cake Entertainment
  Cake Entertainment
  Cake Entertainment Ltd is a British production and distribution company based in London.The company distributes content for children around the world.The company was founded in 2002.-Distribution:* Total Drama Island* Total Drama Action...
  
  
• Funimation Entertainment
  Funimation Entertainment
  Funimation is an American entertainment company. Originally founded in 1994 by Gen Fukunaga, the company became a subsidiary of Navarre Corporation on May 11, 2005...
  
  
• Harmony Gold USA
  Harmony Gold USA
  Harmony Gold is a television production and distribution company established in 1983. It is best known as the “creator” and main distributor of the anime series Robotech. It also partially dubbed the Dragon Ball series in the late 1980s....
  
  
• HiT Entertainment
  HIT Entertainment
  Hit Entertainment is a British-American entertainment distribution company established in 1989, and originally the international distribution arm of Jim Henson Productions called Henson International Television...
  
  
• Nest Family Entertainment
  Nest Family Entertainment
  Nest Family Entertainment was formed in 1987 and was managed by Richard Rich, Brian Nissen and Jared F. Brown. The company is best known for producing and distributing educational animated Christian and historical videos for children such as Animated Stories from the Bible, Animated Stories from...
  
  
• Nihon Ad Systems
  Nihon Ad Systems
  , NAS for short, is a Japanese anime production and character merchandising company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the advertising agency Asatsu-DK. The "Ad" in its title is an abbreviation for "Animation Development". Along with animation studios Sunrise, Toei Animation and TMS Entertainment, it is...
  
  
• PorchLight Entertainment
  PorchLight Entertainment
  PorchLight Entertainment, Inc. is an American production company founded in 1995 by Bruce D. Johnson and William T. Baumann. It dedicates in television production and animation...
  
  
• Saban Entertainment
• Scholastic Entertainment
• Taffy Entertainment
• Viz Media
  VIZ Media
  VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is an anime, manga, and Japanese entertainment company. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and...
  
  
• World Events Productions
  World Events Productions
  World Events Productions is an American-based animation and distribution company in St. Louis, Missouri, best known for releasing the anime titles Voltron, Defender of the Universe and Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, as well as producing the original animated series Denver, the Last...
  
  

See also

• List of animated feature-length films
• List of animated shorts available on DVD
• List of animated short series
• List of movie genres
• Motion graphic design