Studio Lists
I have organized these lists by the content since you should seek a studio that matches your skills and demo reel.
Each studio has a very specific skill set they are looking for (i.e. you would never send a VFX reel to an animation studio like Disney unless you are specifically sending to their VFX department.) Don’t waste people’s time sending a reel to a studio that doesn’t apply. A reel to ILM is very different than a reel going to Disney. For a more comprehensive list go to Wikipedia
Listed in no particular order…
- Pixar – Emeryville, CA
- Walt Disney Animation Studios – Burbank, CA
- DreamWorks Animation – Glendale, CA
- Blue Sky Studios – Greenwich, Connecticut
- Warner Bros Animation – Burbank, CA
- Illumination Mac Guff – Paris, France
- Sony Pictures Animation – Culver City, CA
- Disney Television Animation – Glendale, CA
- DisneyToon Studios – Glendale, CA
- Duncan Studio – Pasadena, CA
Listed in no particular order…
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- Industrial Light & Magic – San Francisco, CA
- Sony Pictures Imageworks – Los Angeles, CA & Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Framestore – London, England (NY, Montreal, and LA, too)
- Weta Digital – Wellington, New Zealand
- Digital Domain – Playa Vista, California
- Luma Pictures – Santa Monica, CA & Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Zero VFX – Boston, MA and Los Angeles, CA
- Entity FX – Los Angeles, CA
- Double Negative – Fitzrovia, London
- Moving Picture Company – London, England (also Mexico City, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Paris, New York, London, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Shanghai, and Montreal)
- Image Engine – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Pixomondo – Los Angeles & Frankfurt, Germany
- Zoic Studios – Culver City, CA
- Blur Studios – Culver City, CA
- Rodeo FX – Los Angeles & Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- South Park Studios – Culver City, CA
- Rising Sun Pictures – Adelaide, Australia
- BUF – Los Angeles, CA & Paris, France
- ReelFX – Dallas, TX
- Animal Logic – Sydney, Australia
- Encore Hollywood – Hollywood, CA
- Shade VFX – Santa Monica, CA
- Scanline VFX – Munich, Germany
- Rise FX – Berlin, Germany
- Whiskytree – San Rafael, CA
- Tippett Studio – Berkley, CA
Listed in no particular order…
- Disney Television Animation – Glendale, CA
- Cartoon Network Studios – Burbank, CA
- Nickelodeon Animation Studios – Burbank, CA
- Lucasfilm Animation – San Francisco, CA
- Warner Bros Television Production/Animation – Burbank, CA
- Toon City – Manila, Philippines
- Rough Draft Studios – Glendale, CA
- 9 Story Entertainment – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Rainmaker – Vancouver, Canada
Listed in no particular order…
- Aardman Animations – Bristol, England, UK
- Laika – Portland, OR
- Aardman/Nathan Love – New York, NY
- Chiodo Bros. – Burbank, CA
- Shadedbox Animations – Los Angeles
- Stoopid Buddy Stoodios – Los Angeles
- Wild Brain – Sherman Oaks, California
- Tippett Studio – Berkeley, California
- La Di Da Films – Los Angeles, CA
- Bix Pix Entertainment – Burbank, California
- Buddy Systems Studios – N. Hollywood, California
- Screen Novelties – Los Angeles
- Open the Portal – Los Angeles, CA
- Athena Studios – Emeryville, California
- Beast Animation – Mechelen, Belgium
- Bent – Portland, Oregon
- Clay Animation – Valencia, Spain
- The Clayman – Vancouver, BC
- Cuppa Coffee Studios – Toronto, Ontario
- Dwarf – Japan
- Flying Gherkin – Sydney, Australia
- House Special – Portland, Oregon
- Humanimalia Studio – Mexico
- Ideal Standard Films – Germany & London
- John Lemmon Films – Charlotte, N. Carolina
- Loose Moose Productions – London
- Mammafotogramma – Italy
- Panic Button Pictures – Seattle, Washington
- PEDRI Animation BV – The Netherlands
- Scopas Medien – Frankfurt
- Se-Ma-For – Poland
- STUDIO NōS – Brooklyn NY
- Trikk 17 – Hamburg, Germany
- Two Left Hands – Paris
- (W)holesome Products Inc. – Los Angeles, CA
List in no particular order…
- Psyop – Los Angeles, CA & New York, NY
- Odd Fellows – Sam Francisco
- We Are Royale – Los Angeles, CA
- Made in Haus – Los Angeles, CA
- Buck – Los Angeles, CA
- Laundry – Los Angeles, CA
- Logan – Los Angeles, CA
- Mirada – Los Angeles, CA
- Imaginary Forces – Los Angeles, CA
- Elastic/a52 – Los Angeles, CA
- Method Studios – Los Angeles, CA
- Brand New School – Los Angeles, CA & New York City, New York
- Pixomondo – Frankfurt, Germany
- Hybride Technologies – Piedmont, Quebec
- Duck Studios – Los Angeles, CA
- Headless Productions – Barcelona, Spain
- Yu+Co – LosAngeles, CA, Hong Kong & Shang Hai
Listed in no particular order…
- Studio Ghibli – Koganei, Tokyo, Japan]
- CapCom – Osaka, Japan
- Toei Animation – Tokyo, Japan
- OLM, Inc – Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
- Production I.G – Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan
- Nippon Animation – Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
- Studio Pierrot – Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
- Studio 4°C – Tokyo, Japan
Listed in no particular order…
- Blizzard – Irvine, CA
- EA – Los Angeles, CA
- Playstation – Santa Monica, CA
- The Odd Gentlemen – Los Angeles, CA
- Insomniac – Burbak, CA & Durham, NC
- SCEA – Everywhere
- Riot Games – Culver City, CA
- Heavy Iron – Culver City, CA
- Activision – Los Angeles, CA
- Jam City – Culver City, CA
- Disney Interactive – Los Angeles, CA
- Dice – Playa Vista, CA
- Bethesda – Baltimore, MD
- Ubisoft – Everywhere
- Valve – Bellevue, WA
List in no particular order…
- Third Floor – Hollywood, CA
- Halon – Los Angeles, CA
- Baraboom – Los Angeles, CA
- Proof – Los Angeles, CA
- Persistence of Vision – Los Angeles, CA
- Previs Lab – Beverly Hills, CA
List in no particular order…
- Matter VR – Los Angeles, CA
- Wevr – Los Angeles, CA
- FramestoreVR – New Yor, London Los Angeles, & Montreal
- Roqovan – Los Angeles, CA
- Stink Studios – New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Berlin, & Shang Hai
- Story Up – Virtual
- KaleidoVR – Portland, OR
- Gentleman Scholar – Los Angeles, CA & New York, NY