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100studio
100studio (Wonderful Studio, ワンダブルオースタジオ) is a Japanese digital animation studio founded May 2021 under CREST/HIKE, known for A Few Moments of Cheers, Quality Assurance in Another World, Fujimoto Tatsuki 17-26, BLACK TORCH, and The Vermilion Mask, with studios in Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei, and Seoul.
20th Century Animation
20th Century Animation, formerly 20th Century Fox Animation, is the animated-film production arm of 20th Century Studios, best known for the Ice Age and Rio films.
Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations is a Bristol-based British studio founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, known for clay stop-motion Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and Shaun the Sheep; employee owned since 2018, with four Academy Awards from seven nominations.
Alpha Group Co.
Alpha Group Co., also known as Alpha Animation, is a Chinese toy and entertainment company that owns the Super Wings and Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf franchises.
Animation industry in Canada
Canada's animation industry: NFB-led art animation plus commercial hubs in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver; $175M production volume in 2023/24, CPTC and provincial tax credits, and a 2024–25 downturn.
Animation industry in Japan
The animation industry in Japan is a cluster of studios and rights holders that produces anime. In 2024, its market reached 3.84 trillion yen, with overseas revenue exceeding the domestic market.
Animation industry in the United States
The US animation industry: Hollywood-based production of animated film, TV, and games, from Disney's 1923 founding and the TV era of Hanna-Barbera to today's 51,900-artist workforce, $460 billion global market, and AI-driven contraction.
Animation studio
Animation studio: a company creating animated media with the equipment and personnel to produce animation; includes feature studios like Disney/Pixar, anime studios like Toei and Ghibli, stop-motion houses like Laika, and contract/outsourcing studios, distinguished by IP ownership versus client work.
Bandai Visual
Bandai Visual (バンダイビジュアル), founded August 1983, was a Japanese film, TV and home entertainment production and distribution company and the Bandai Namco Group's visual arm; merged with Lantis into Bandai Namco Arts in 2018, its film business later folded into Bandai Namco Filmworks.
Blue Sky Studios
Blue Sky Studios was a Greenwich, Connecticut computer animation studio founded in 1987 by ex-MAGI staff, acquired by Fox in 1999 and Disney in 2019, producer of Ice Age, Rio, and Ferdinand, closed April 2021 with 450 layoffs. Distinct from the UK gift company of the same name.
Blur Studio
Blur Studio (Blur Studio, Inc.) is a Los Angeles CGI animation and VFX company founded in 1995 by Tim Miller, David Stinnett, and Duane Powell, known for game cinematics and the Emmy-winning Netflix anthology Love, Death + Robots and Prime Video's Secret Level.
Bones (ボンズ) (studio)
Bones (株式会社ボンズ, bones inc.) is a Japanese animation studio founded in October 1998 by Masahiko Minami, Hiroshi Osaka, and Toshihiro Kawamoto after leaving Sunrise. Known for Fullmetal Alchemist, Eureka Seven, and My Hero Academia; production spun off as Bones Film in 2024.
Cartoon Network Studios
Cartoon Network Studios, the American animation studio behind Samurai Jack, Adventure Time, and Steven Universe, founded in 1994, opened its Burbank facility in 2000, and consolidated with Warner Bros. Animation after the 2022 merger.
Cartoon Saloon
Cartoon Saloon is an Irish animation studio founded in 1999 in Kilkenny by Paul Young, Tomm Moore, and Nora Twomey, known for hand-drawn 2D features including The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers, with five Oscar nominations.
Cloudco Entertainment
Cloudco Entertainment (Those Characters From Cleveland, LLC), formerly American Greetings Entertainment, is a Los Angeles-based children's IP studio owning Care Bears, Holly Hobbie, and Madballs; founded 1981, owned by IVEST from 2023 and acquired by Authentic Brands Group in 2026.
Consolidation of the animation studio industry
Consolidation of the animation studio industry: acquisition and merger of animation studios by media conglomerates such as Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Skydance, with studio closures, layoffs, and parallel Japanese consolidation.
Criticism of Walt Disney Animation Studios
Criticism of Walt Disney Animation Studios: scholarly and popular critiques of the Burbank studio covering the 1941 animators' strike, Song of the South and racial stereotyping, gender portrayals, formulaic storytelling, labor cuts, and copyright and AI litigation.
DC Studios
DC Studios: Warner Bros. Discovery division led by James Gunn and Peter Safran (appointed 2022) that relaunched the DC Universe across film, TV, animation, and gaming, starting with Creature Commandos and Superman.
DIC Entertainment
DIC Entertainment (DiC), also DIC Audiovisuel, DIC Enterprises, and DIC Animation City, was a French-American children's animation studio founded by Jean Chalopin in Paris, famed for Inspector Gadget, sold to Cookie Jar in 2008, library now with WildBrain.
Dingo Pictures
Dingo Pictures: German animation studio (founded 1992 as Media Concept by Ludwig Ickert and Roswitha Haas) making low-budget Disney mockbusters until 2005; source of the Yee meme. Distinct from the Melbourne production company of the same name.
Disney Television Animation
Disney Television Animation (DTVA), founded November 1984 under Gary Krisel, is Disney's television animation studio behind Adventures of the Gummi Bears, DuckTales, Phineas and Ferb, and Gravity Falls, producing series, specials, and direct-to-video features from its Glendale offices for Disney channels and Disney+.
Disneytoon Studios
Disneytoon Studios (originally Disney MovieToons) was Disney's direct-to-video and theatrical animation studio, active 1990-2018, known for sequel features, the Tinker Bell series, Planes, and its June 2018 closure with 75 staff.
DNEG
DNEG, formerly Double Negative, is a London-founded visual effects and animation studio formed by the 2014 Prime Focus World merger. It has won eight Academy Awards for Best VFX since 2011, including both Dune films, and operates about 9,000 staff worldwide.
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation: American animation studio in Glendale, California, founded 1994 by Spielberg, Katzenberg, and Geffen; maker of Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, and How to Train Your Dragon; NBCUniversal-owned since 2016, not to be confused with the wider DreamWorks SKG live-action studio.
DreamWorks Animation Television
DreamWorks Animation Television is DreamWorks Animation's TV series division, launched 2013 under Margie Cohn around a 300-hour Netflix deal, after failed pre-2008 TV attempts, Nickelodeon tie-in shows, and later expansion to Hulu, Prime Video, Peacock, and Apple TV+.
Famous Studios
Famous Studios, later Paramount Cartoon Studios, was Paramount Pictures' animation division from 1942 to 1967, formed from the foreclosed Fleischer Studios and known for Casper, Baby Huey, Little Audrey, and Popeye cartoons.
Filmation
Filmation Associates was a US animation studio founded in 1962 by Lou Scheimer, Norm Prescott, and Hal Sutherland, known for Fat Albert, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and He-Man; it kept all production in America, closed February 3, 1989, and its library now sits with DreamWorks Classics.
Fleischer Studios
Fleischer Studios: American animation studio (Out of the Inkwell, Inc., 1921; Fleischer Studios, Inc., 1929) founded by Max and Dave Fleischer, Disney's main pre-war rival; creator of Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman cartoons; inventor of the Rotoscope; taken over by Paramount in 1941 and renamed Famous Studios.
Fox Animation Studios
Fox Animation Studios was 20th Century Fox's feature-animation division, founded in 1994 under Don Bluth at a 66,000-square-foot Phoenix studio; it made Anastasia (1997) and Titan A.E. (2000), then collapsed.
Frederator Studios
Frederator Studios, founded by Fred Seibert in 1997, is an American creator-driven animation studio behind The Fairly OddParents, Adventure Time, and Castlevania, now a Kartoon Studios subsidiary after its channel business was sold in 2026.