Best Cities For Working in Animation

Looking for the top cities in the Animation industry? The following list is ranked based on the estimated industry size in each location, offering the most opportunities. Click on the location name/flag to visit that location and browse all the studios.

Estimated Number of Studios: 263

Estimated Industry Size: 18,285 - 57,528

Rank	Cities	Studios	Industry Size
1	Los Angeles	27	4615 - 16343
2	Emeryville	1	1001 - 5000
3	Toronto	19	1306 - 3521
4	Vancouver	9	1512 - 3249
5	Paris	6	809 - 1925
6	Montreal	13	627 - 1916
7	London	8	516 - 1276
8	Mumbai	4	452 - 1100
9	Ottawa	3	468 - 1083
10	Singapore	9	343 - 1036
11	Portland	1	501 - 1000
12	Petaling Jaya	7	243 - 966
13	Madrid	8	288 - 871
14	Dublin	5	349 - 860
15	Budapest	3	263 - 750
16	Bristol	2	268 - 666
17	Tokyo	6	146 - 600
18	Taipei	3	153 - 600
19	Brussels	5	139 - 560
20	Sydney	5	135 - 550
21	Cape Town	5	135 - 550
22	Montpellier	1	201 - 500
23	New York	5	196 - 493
24	Bangkok	5	115 - 470
25	Manchester	2	176 - 450
26	Kelowna	2	151 - 450
27	Hyderabad	3	152 - 410
28	Mexico City	3	102 - 405
29	Bangalore	2	184 - 400
30	Cyberjaya	2	102 - 400
31	Berlin	6	135 - 370
32	Beijing	3	93 - 366
33	Kerala	1	167 - 333
34	Makati City	1	167 - 333
35	Munich	4	127 - 325
36	Atlanta	4	113 - 320
37	Pune	6	56 - 260
38	Copenhagen	3	63 - 260
39	Batam	1	100 - 250
40	Bali	1	125 - 250
41	Oslo	3	53 - 220
42	Dallas	2	78 - 216
43	Milan	2	52 - 210
44	Chennai	1	100 - 200
45	Roma	1	51 - 200
46	Auckland	1	51 - 200
47	Snells Beach	1	51 - 200
48	Antwerp	1	51 - 200
49	Charleroi	1	51 - 200
50	Nanjing	1	51 - 200
51	Prague	1	51 - 200
52	Alexandria	1	51 - 200
53	Glasgow	1	67 - 166
54	Sao Paulo	4	34 - 160
55	Halifax	2	31 - 125
56	Shanghai	2	28 - 116
57	Hamburg	4	23 - 110
58	Skopje	3	23 - 110
59	Valencia	3	23 - 110
60	Austin	2	26 - 110
61	Lille	1	25 - 100
62	Delhi	2	22 - 100
63	Jakarta	2	22 - 100
64	Kuala Lumpur	1	25 - 100
65	Quebec City	1	25 - 100
66	Tel Aviv	4	20 - 96
67	Melbourne	3	17 - 85
68	Seoul	4	14 - 80
69	Orlando	2	16 - 75
70	Chicago	3	13 - 70
71	Ghent	3	13 - 70
72	Jerusalem	1	17 - 66
73	Seville	1	17 - 66
74	Guadalajara	2	12 - 60
75	San Francisco	2	12 - 60
76	Adelaide	2	12 - 60
77	Viborg	2	12 - 60
78	Minsk	2	12 - 60
79	Kyiv	2	12 - 60
80	Hong Kong	1	11 - 50
81	Bengaluru	1	11 - 50
82	Navi Mumbai	1	11 - 50
83	Bandung	1	11 - 50
84	Denpasar	1	11 - 50
85	Wellington	1	11 - 50
86	Tenerife	1	11 - 50
87	Sandy	1	11 - 50
88	Brisbane	1	11 - 50
89	Billund	1	11 - 50
90	Ankara	1	11 - 50
91	Reykjavik	1	11 - 50
92	Vienna	1	11 - 50
93	Helsinki	1	11 - 50
94	St Petersburg	1	11 - 50
95	Yerevan	1	11 - 50
96	Warnemünde	1	5 - 25
97	Coimbatore	1	5 - 25
98	Barcelona	1	5 - 25
99	Lincoln	1	5 - 25
100	Calgary	1	5 - 25
101	Houston	1	5 - 25
102	Lisbon	1	5 - 25
103	Amman	2	2 - 20
104	Frankfurt	1	1 - 10
105	Athens	1	1 - 10
106	Ahmedabad	1	1 - 10
107	Cork	1	1 - 10
108	Gothenburg	1	1 - 10
109	Edmonton	1	1 - 10
110	Sudbury	1	1 - 10
111	Miami	1	1 - 10
112	Genk	1	1 - 10
113	Liege	1	1 - 10
114	Suzhou	1	1 - 10
115	Aarhus	1	1 - 10
116	Kaohsiung City	1	1 - 10
117	Tunis	1	1 - 10
118	London	1	0 - 5
119	Lyon	0	0 - 0
120	Salon de Provence	0	0 - 0
121	Bordeaux	0	0 - 0
122	Stuttgart	0	0 - 0
123	Bonn	0	0 - 0
124	Cologne	0	0 - 0
125	Munster	0	0 - 0
126	Dusseldorf	0	0 - 0
127	Leipzig	0	0 - 0
128	Würselen	0	0 - 0
129	Essen	0	0 - 0
130	Offenburg	0	0 - 0
131	Karlsruhe	0	0 - 0
132	Wurzburg	0	0 - 0
133	Birkesdorf	0	0 - 0
134	Regensburg	0	0 - 0
135	Larissa	0	0 - 0
136	Heraklion	0	0 - 0
137	Goa	0	0 - 0
138	Chandigarh	0	0 - 0
139	New Delhi	0	0 - 0
140	Namakkal	0	0 - 0
141	Tangerang	0	0 - 0
142	Yogyakarta	0	0 - 0
143	Florence	0	0 - 0
144	Meran	0	0 - 0
145	Fukuoka	0	0 - 0
146	Sendai	0	0 - 0
147	Osaka	0	0 - 0
148	Nagoya	0	0 - 0
149	Monterrey	0	0 - 0
150	Tijuana	0	0 - 0
151	Ensenada	0	0 - 0
152	Amsterdam	0	0 - 0
153	Badhoevedorp	0	0 - 0
154	The Hague	0	0 - 0
155	Rotterdam	0	0 - 0
156	Eindhoven	0	0 - 0
157	Leeuwarden	0	0 - 0
158	Utrecht	0	0 - 0
159	Volda	0	0 - 0
160	Bergen	0	0 - 0
161	Busan	0	0 - 0
162	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	0	0 - 0
163	Stockholm	0	0 - 0
164	Uppsala	0	0 - 0
165	Malmo	0	0 - 0
166	Skövde	0	0 - 0
167	Lidköping	0	0 - 0
168	Karlsborg	0	0 - 0
169	Chiang Mai	0	0 - 0
170	Birmingham	0	0 - 0
171	Cardiff	0	0 - 0
172	Bournemouth	0	0 - 0
173	Leeds	0	0 - 0
174	Edinburgh	0	0 - 0
175	Derby	0	0 - 0
176	Brighton	0	0 - 0
177	Liverpool	0	0 - 0
178	Cambridge	0	0 - 0
179	Newcastle	0	0 - 0
180	Oxford	0	0 - 0
181	Sheffield	0	0 - 0
182	Nottingham	0	0 - 0
183	Dundee	0	0 - 0
184	Newport	0	0 - 0
185	Wakefield	0	0 - 0
186	Leamington Spa	0	0 - 0
187	Falmouth	0	0 - 0
188	Middlesbrough	0	0 - 0
189	Sunderland	0	0 - 0
190	Hitchin	0	0 - 0
191	Chatham	0	0 - 0
192	Penryn	0	0 - 0
193	Milton Keynes	0	0 - 0
194	Guildford	0	0 - 0
195	Farnborough	0	0 - 0
196	York	0	0 - 0
197	Piedmont	0	0 - 0
198	Lunenberg	0	0 - 0
199	Charlottetown	0	0 - 0
200	Regina	0	0 - 0
201	Saskatoon	0	0 - 0
202	Winnipeg	0	0 - 0
203	Moncton	0	0 - 0
204	St. Johns	0	0 - 0
205	Boston	0	0 - 0
206	Detroit	0	0 - 0
207	Greenwich	0	0 - 0
208	Savannah	0	0 - 0
209	Novato	0	0 - 0
210	Seattle	0	0 - 0
211	San Diego	0	0 - 0
212	Andover	0	0 - 0
213	Redmond	0	0 - 0
214	Madison	0	0 - 0
215	Rockville	0	0 - 0
216	Maui	0	0 - 0
217	Cedar Falls	0	0 - 0
218	San Jose	0	0 - 0
219	Durham	0	0 - 0
220	Tallahassee	0	0 - 0
221	Cambridge	0	0 - 0
222	Cary	0	0 - 0
223	New Orleans	0	0 - 0
224	Las Vegas	0	0 - 0
225	Spokane	0	0 - 0
226	Minneapolis	0	0 - 0
227	Denver	0	0 - 0
228	Ann Arbor	0	0 - 0
229	Washington DC	0	0 - 0
230	Indianapolis	0	0 - 0
231	Salt Lake City	0	0 - 0
232	St. Louis	0	0 - 0
233	Oklahoma City	0	0 - 0
234	Philadelphia	0	0 - 0
235	Albany	0	0 - 0
236	Baton Rouge	0	0 - 0
237	Raleigh	0	0 - 0
238	Baltimore	0	0 - 0
239	Grand Rapids	0	0 - 0
240	Kalamazoo	0	0 - 0
241	Troy	0	0 - 0
242	Albuquerque	0	0 - 0
243	Sacramento	0	0 - 0
244	Champaign	0	0 - 0
245	Shreveport	0	0 - 0
246	Portsmouth	0	0 - 0
247	Bend	0	0 - 0
248	Merritt Island	0	0 - 0
249	Canberra	0	0 - 0
250	Perth	0	0 - 0
251	Wuxi	0	0 - 0
252	Xiamen	0	0 - 0
253	Dachang	0	0 - 0
254	ShenZhen	0	0 - 0
255	Chengdu	0	0 - 0
256	Wuhan	0	0 - 0
257	Hangzhou	0	0 - 0
258	Guangzhou	0	0 - 0
259	Luoyang	0	0 - 0
260	Fuzhou	0	0 - 0
261	Xi'an	0	0 - 0
262	Aalborg	0	0 - 0
263	Rio de Janeiro	0	0 - 0
264	Curitiba	0	0 - 0
265	Lviv	0	0 - 0
266	Kharkiv	0	0 - 0
267	Odesa	0	0 - 0
268	Johannesburg	0	0 - 0
269	San Salvador	0	0 - 0
270	Istanbul	0	0 - 0
271	Brno	0	0 - 0
272	Montevideo	0	0 - 0
273	Lucerne	0	0 - 0
274	Basel	0	0 - 0
275	Bratislava	0	0 - 0
276	Warsaw	0	0 - 0
277	Kraków	0	0 - 0
278	Rzeszow	0	0 - 0
279	Lodz	0	0 - 0
280	Katowice	0	0 - 0
281	Gliwice	0	0 - 0
282	Kathmandu	0	0 - 0
283	Sousse	0	0 - 0
284	Sofia	0	0 - 0
285	Cluj-Napoca	0	0 - 0
286	Bucharest	0	0 - 0
287	Hanoi	0	0 - 0
288	Da Nang	0	0 - 0
289	Saigon	0	0 - 0
290	Ho Chi Minh City	0	0 - 0
291	Novi Sad	0	0 - 0
292	Belgrade	0	0 - 0
293	Almaty	0	0 - 0
294	Graz	0	0 - 0
295	Innsbruck	0	0 - 0
296	Manila	0	0 - 0
297	Quezon City	0	0 - 0
298	Tampere	0	0 - 0
299	Malta	0	0 - 0
300	Ramallah	0	0 - 0
301	Dubai	0	0 - 0
302	Moscow	0	0 - 0
303	Novosibirsk	0	0 - 0
304	Nizhny Novgorod	0	0 - 0
305	Taganrog	0	0 - 0
306	Krasnodar	0	0 - 0
307	Nicosia	0	0 - 0
308	Limassol	0	0 - 0
309	Vilnius	0	0 - 0
310	Santiago	0	0 - 0
311	Cairo	0	0 - 0
312	Tbilisi	0	0 - 0
313	Buenos Aires	0	0 - 0
314	Riyadh	0	0 - 0

Studios are added daily, rank is subject to change as new studios are found and added to the database.

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