1. Walt Disney Animation Studio
Disney Animation studios is an American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney, it is the oldest-running animation studio in the world. The studio’s catalog of animated features is among Disney’s most notable assets, with the stars of its animated shorts – Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, and Pluto – becoming recognizable figures in popular culture and mascots for The Walt Disney Company as a whole.

2. Pixar Animation Studios
American computer animation studio Pixar Animation Studios is well-known for its critically acclaimed and financially rewarding computer-animated feature films. Pixar started in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division. It was known as the Graphics Group before its spin-off as a corporation in 1986, with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who became its majority shareholder. Disney converted each share of Pixar stock into 2.3 shares of Disney stock in order to acquire the company in January 2006 for an estimated $7.4+ billion.

3. DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation Studio is an American animation studio that produces animated films and television programs and is a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a division of Comcast. DreamWorks Animation originated as a division of DreamWorks SKG, a company founded in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen (the “S,” “K,” and “G” of the company name). Katzenberg, formerly the head of film and television production of the Walt Disney Company, took charge of the new company’s animated film production.

4. Sony Picture Animation
The Motion Picture Group branch of Sony Pictures Entertainment owns the American animation company Sony Pictures Animation Inc., which was established on May 9, 2002. Sony Pictures Releasing, which operates under the Columbia Pictures imprint, distributes the studio’s movies worldwide, while Sony Pictures Home Entertainment handles all direct-to-video releases.

5. Illumination
Chris Meledandri established the American computer animation firm Illumination in 2007. Meledandri is the sole owner of Illumination, and Universal Pictures, a unit of Comcast through its wholly-owned subsidiary NBCUniversal, is a co-owner of the Illumination brand. The movies are made by Meledandri, and they are financed and released by Universal. Illumination has produced 12 feature films, with an average gross of $695.4 million per film.

6. Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. The Warner Bros. Pictures Group, which consists of Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, the Warner Animation Group, Castle Rock Entertainment, and DC Studios, is the company’s film studio division. The television production firm Warner Bros. Television Studios is one of its other properties. The company’s official mascot is Bugs Bunny, a cartoon character from the Looney Tunes franchise.

7. Blue sky Studio
An American computer animation company called Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was situated in Greenwich, Connecticut. Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy created it on February 22, 1987, following the closure of MAGI, one of the visual effects studios responsible for Tron (1982). Before focusing on producing animated films, the studio produced visual effects for commercials and movies using its own rendering tools. 13 full-length movies were made, starting in 2002 with Ice Age. Spies in Disguise, their final feature film, was released in 2019.

8. Cartoon Network Studio
Cartoon Network Studios is an American animation studio owned by the Warner Bros. Television Studios division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. The studio is the production arm of Cartoon Network, and started operating on October 21, 1994, as a division of Hanna-Barbera until the latter was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001.

9. Toei Animation
Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio primarily controlled by its namesake Toei Company. Toei is one of the top Japanese animation companies and known across the globe for a large number of works. It has created a number of TV series and movies and adapted Japanese comics as animated series, many popular worldwide. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Yasuji Mori, Leiji Matsumoto and Yōichi Kotabe have worked with the company.

10. Paramount Animation
Paramount Animation is an American animation studio, serving as the animation division and label of Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Paramount Global.After the box office success of Paramount’s own Rango and the expiration of their distribution agreement with DreamWorks Animation in 2012, the division was established on July 6, 2011.
