The Studio List
Smaller studios don't hire as often so keep your eyes on them and be ready to pounce on that job posting as soon as it hits the web. Also don't let yourself get sucked up into the notion that the big studios are better. In industry it is not as stratified as you would think. It's all experience. So if you feel that you really want to be at the big studios but can't get a look... try to get a job at a smaller studio and try again after a project or two (not that it is easier to get a job at a small house, just don't limit your options).
- L.A. Based Studios
- DIGITAL DOMAIN
- Sony Imageworks
- Rhythm & Hues Studios
- Disney Animaton
- Dream Works
- Blizzard (awesome cinematics, some of the best pay in industry)
- E.A. Games (games obviously)
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- CAFEFX
- lumapictures
- CIS Hollywood.com
- Gray Matter FX
- Blur Studio
- Asylum Not much of a site but good reputation
- ZOIC
- X1 FX (feature, commercials, music videos) cool stuff
- ENCORE HOLLYWOOD
- Sprite Animation Studio
- Look! Effects
- A52 Studio (commercial work)
- Brain Zoo Studios (video game cut sequences)
- Method Studios(mostly commercial work)
- Hyperion Pictures
- Gentle Giant Studios (modeling)
- Hydraulx
- Sway Studios
- Mechnology
- Brickyard
- Phenom Blue (2D 3D Interactive Development)
- Nylon
- Furiuos FX (feature)
- Tiger Hare Studios (Title work, cinematics, character design)
- Motion Theory
- Imaginary Forces (commercial & feature) also in New York
- Stardust (commercials) also in New York
- Exodus Film Group (original content Feature animation)
- Semologic (game cinematics, tv, and film) LA and Korea
- Screaming Death Monkey (tv, commercial, film)
- Mac Guff (commercials) very cool!
- Numb Robot (commercials)
- Sol Design FX (commercials) also in Chicago
- Branit VFX (commercials) also in Kansas City
- Proof (previz)
- Pixel Liberation Front (previz, vfx)
- REZN8 (tv)
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- Bay Area Based Studios
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Industrial Light & Magic
- Lucas Films Animation
- Lucas Arts (games)
- DreamWorks
Animation SKG PDI (Dreamworks in L.A.)
- Matte World Digital
- Tippett Studio
- R a d i u m (tv & commercial work)
- Wild Brain (tv & commercial work)
- Maverix Studios (preproduction)
- Critter Pix Studios (feature 3D animation)
- Halon previz (also in LA)
- Massive Black (gaming content)
- Utah Studios
- Sandman Studios
- Zygote
- Daz models
- New York Studios
- Blue Sky Animation Studios
- Million of Tiny Robots (commercial & TV)
- Guava (commercial and some feature)
- Mass Market (commercial)
- Tronic Studios (commercial and design)
- Suspect (commercials)
- Spontaneous (commercial, design, vfx)
- UV Phactory (Design & Commercial Work)
- Shilo Design New York & Del Mar CA (commercial 3d and design)
- Digital Kitchen New York, Seatle, Chicago (commercials)
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- Misc Domestic Studios
- DNA Texas (Jimmy Neutron guys)
- Island Fever Texas (commercial work)
- MAKE Minnesota (Title work & commercials)
- Reject Barn Connecticut (Design & Animation)
- Project Firefly Animation
Studios Orlando - CAAT Studios Hollywood (traditional animation studio)
- Cause & Fx Studio Honolulu Hawaii
- Don Bluth Studios Arizona (no longer opperating studio site still cool in a historical way)
- Black Pool Studios Washington (cool work)
- Kleiser-Walczak Studios Hollywood and Massachusetts
- Reel FX Dallas, TX
- Laffey (commercials) St. Louis Missouri
- Pendulum Studios (gaming cinematics, tv vfx, commercials)
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- Canadian Based Studios
- Rainmaker Digital Pictures (very cool boutique, lots of feature work)
- C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures
- The Embassy Visual Effects
Inc.
- Frantic Films
- Lost Boys Studios
- Neezo Studios (commercial work)
- English Based Studios
- Double Negative visual effects
- Moving
Picture Company
- Cinesite
- Framestore CFC Visual
Effects and Animation Studio Also in New York
- Aardman Studios (stop motion)
- Animagix (traditional)
- The Mill (mostly commercial, some cool stuff) London, New York, and LA studios
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- New Zealand and Australia
- Weta Digital - Weta Digital
Ltd - Animal Logic
- Rising Sun Pictures
- Misc Foreign Studios
- BUF France
- Cartoon Saloon Ireland (traditional)
- Camera VFX (Bulgaria)
