List of animation studios
StudioCountryFoundedNotes and sourcesAdelaide ProductionsUnited States1993–2019Formerly named Columbia TriStar Children's Television and Columbia TriStar Animation. Currently dormant.Adventure Cartoon ProductionsUnited States1962(?)–1966(?)AmblimationUnited Kingdom1989–1997The animation production arm of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. Folded into DreamWorks Animation. Vacant studio became Access Self-Storage.Animation CollectiveUnited States2003–2014Bakshi Productions/Ralph's SpotUnited States????Barré StudioUnited States1914–1923After 1917 called Bud Fisher Films Corporation.BelvisionBelgium1956–2005Bill Melendez ProductionsUnited States1969Bird StudiosUnited Kingdom????Bray ProductionsUnited States1913–1927Burbank Films AustraliaAustralia1981–1988Jumbo PicturesUnited States1988–2000Folded into Walt Disney Television AnimationChuck Jones ProductionsUnited States????Cinar CorporationCanada1976–2004Reincorporated as Cookie Jar Entertainment.Circle 7 AnimationUnited States2004–2006Defunct subdivision of Walt Disney companyClockwork Zoo AnimationSouth Africa2008-2010Formerly Octagon CSI.Colossal PicturesUnited States1976–1999Cosgrove Hall FilmsUnited Kingdom1976–2009ITV owners wound down after purchase.Créativité & DéveloppementFrance1987-1996Assets purchased by Saban Entertainment.Curious PicturesUnited States1978–2014Formerly Stowmar Enterprises and Broadcast Arts.Decode EntertainmentCanada1997-2010'sMerged with Halifax Film. Later renamed to DHX Media Toronto before closure of animation division.DePatie-Freleng EnterprisesUnited States1963–1981Re-organized as Marvel Productions.DIC AudiovisuelFrance1971–1987Separated when Andy Heyward purchased DIC's operations from RTL and made their US offices the main base of operations. French offices re-incorporated into Créativité & DéveloppementDIC EntertainmentUnited States1982–2008Founded as DIC Enterprises and later named DIC Productions. Purchased and folded by Cookie Jar Entertainment in 2008Dingo PicturesGermany1993–2006DisneyToon StudiosUnited States1988–2018defunct subdivision of Walt Disney CompanyDisneyToon Studios AustraliaAustralia1988–2006Also known as Walt Disney Animation AustraliaDNA ProductionsUnited States1987–????DUCK StudiosUnited States1972–2015Folded into Noble Animation.EllipsanimeFrance1987–2014FatkatCanada1999–????FilmationUnited States1963–1989Folded by L'Oreal, assets now owned by DreamWorks Animation through DreamWorks ClassicsFilmFairUnited States
United Kingdom1968-1996US operations purchased by the Altschul Group Corporation in 1992, UK operations purchased by Cinar in 1996Fleischer Studios
(Inkwell Studios/Famous Studios/Paramount Cartoon Studios)United States1921–1967Name changed in 1928, 1942, 1956.Format FilmsUnited States1959Fox Animation StudiosUnited States1994–2000See also: 20th Century Fox Animation aboveGames AnimationUnited States1990George Pal StudioUnited States????Stop-motion animation only.Golden FilmsUnited States1988Grantray-Lawrence AnimationUnited States1954–1967Group TACJapan1968–2010Gaumont British AnimationUK1946–1950H-GunUnited States1988–2001Hal Film MakerJapan1993–2009Merged with Yumeta Company into TYO Animations.Halas and BatchelorUnited Kingdom????Hanna-BarberaUnited States1957–2001Folded into Cartoon Network Studios; defunct subdivision of AT&THarman-Ising ProductionsUnited States1930–1960ImageMovers DigitalUnited States2009–2011Joint-venture between ImageMovers and The Walt Disney Company. Folded after Mars Needs Moms bombed at the box officeImagi Animation StudiosUnited States / China / Japan2000–2010International Film ServiceUnited States1915–1918Jack Kinney ProductionsUnited States1960–1963Jay Ward ProductionsUnited States1958–1984Larry Harmon PicturesUnited States1958–1962Jetix Animation ConceptsUnited States2004-2009Label of Walt Disney Television AnimationJetlag ProductionsUnited States
Japan1992–1996KievnauchfilmUSSR1941–????Kroyer FilmsUnited States1986–1994Studio inactive as of 1994.LacewoodCanada????Laugh-O-Gram StudioUnited States1921–1923Walt Disney's first animation venture, which didn't last long.Leon Schlesinger Productions/Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc./Warner Bros Seven ArtsUnited States1933–1964
1967–1969Schlesinger sold the studio to Warner Bros in 1944, in 1964 the studio closed down, and reopened briefly in 1967 to close down in 1969.ManglobeJapan2002–2015Marathon Media GroupFrance1990-2016Subsidiary of Zodiak Entertainment, folded after Zodiak Media merged with the Banijay GroupMathematical Applications Group, Inc.United States1966Also known as MAPIMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studioUnited States1937–1957MGM AnimationUnited States1993–1999Dormant since 1999MGM Animation/Visual Arts/Sib Tower 12 ProductionsUnited States1962–1970MoonScoop GroupFrance2003Filed for administration in 2013. Assets now owned by Dargaud, while US operations were separated as Splash EntertainmentMushi ProductionJapan1961–1973A new studio with the same name was established in 1977 and is still active.Nerd Corps EntertainmentCanada2002-2016Purchased by DHX Media in 2014, folded into DHX Studios Vancouver in 2016Noyes & LaybourneUnited States1978–1991Folded into Colossal Pictures.Pacific Data ImagesUnited States1980–2015Closed by DreamWorks Animation.Perpetual Motion PicturesUnited States1968-1982Renamed Buzzco Associates by Buzz Potamkin in 1982Phoenix Animation StudiosUnited States1966Pilot StudioRussia1988–????Radix Ace EntertainmentJapan????Rankin/Bass Animated EntertainmentUnited States1960–1987Founded as VideoCraft International. Folded by Telepictures Corporation. Pre-1974 library owned by DreamWorks Animation through DreamWorks Classics, Post-1974 library owned by Warner Bros.Rembrandt FilmsCzechoslovakia????Operated in Prague by Americans.Richard Williams Studio Ltd.United Kingdom1958–1992Ruby-Spears ProductionsUnited States1977–1996Studio inactive as of 1996.Saban EntertainmentUnited States-Israel1983–2002Purchased by Disney in 2001 as part of the Fox Family Worldwide purchase. Currently legally known as BVS EntertainmentSIP AnimationFrance1977–2009Founded as Saban International Paris. Separated from Saban in 2001 after Disney buyout, stake purchased by Disney in 2002 and renamed to SIP Animation in the same year. Filed for liquidation and closed in 2009Skellington ProductionsUnited States1986–1996(?)Renamed as Skellington in 1992.Soup2NutsUnited States1993–2015Formerly named Tom Snyder ProductionsSpectrum AnimationJapan????Studio B ProductionsCanada1988-2016Purchased by DHX Media in 2007, renamed to DHX Media Vancouver in 2010, folded into DHX Studios Vancouver in 2016.Studio EkranRussia1968–????Sullivan-Bluth StudiosIreland
United States1985–1995Sunbow EntertainmentUnited States1980-2004Purchased by Sony Wonder in 1998 and then TV Loonland-AG in 2000, folded into the latter in 2004TerrytoonsUnited States1928–1968TopcraftJapan1971-1985Became Studio GhibliTotal TelevisionUnited States1960–1968Tradition StudiosUnited States1912–2009Turner Feature AnimationUnited States1991–1996Folded into Warner Bros. Feature AnimationTV Loonland-AGGermany1989–2009First known as TMO-Loonland. Filed for bankruptcy in 2009, majority of former assets now owned by M4E AGTVC CartoonsCanada
1961–1979
1988–1997Ub Iwerks Studio/Cartoons Films IncUnited States1930–1936Iwerks sold the studio in 1936, but the studio continued to produce animation commercials into the mid-1940s.United Productions of AmericaUnited States1944–1964Also known as UPAVan Beuren StudiosUnited States1928–1936Walt Disney Animation CanadaCanada1996–2000Defunct subdivision of Walt Disney Television AnimationWalt Disney Animation FranceFrance1986–2003Founded as Brizzi Films, Defunct subdivision of Walt Disney Television AnimationWalt Disney Animation JapanJapan1984–2004Founded as Pacific Animation. Defunct subdivision of Walt Disney Television AnimationWalt Disney Feature Animation FloridaUnited States1989–2004Became a general satellite studios of Walt Disney Animation Studios, founded after earlier venture Disney's Hollywood Studios went bankrupt and for additional output.Walter Lantz ProductionsUnited States1929–1948
1950–1972Universal now owns the library.WildBrain EntertainmentUnited States1994-2015Folded into DHX's other operations, name reused for a streaming service and eventually the rebranding of DHXWill Vinton StudiosUnited States1979–2005Became LAIKA.Winkler Pictures*/Charles Mintz Studios**/Screen Gems Studio***United States1921–1946*Also known as M.J. Winkler Productions and Robert Winkler Productions
**Re-organization in 1929
***Re-organization in 1940