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: 260

Estimated Industry Size: 18,047 - 56,208

Rank	Cities	Studios	Industry Size
1	Los Angeles	27	4615 - 16343
2	Emeryville	1	1001 - 5000
3	Toronto	19	1305 - 3511
4	Vancouver	9	1187 - 2649
5	Paris	6	809 - 1925
6	Montreal	13	627 - 1916
7	London	8	516 - 1276
8	Ottawa	3	468 - 1083
9	Singapore	8	341 - 1016
10	Portland	1	501 - 1000
11	Greenwich	0	501 - 1000
12	Petaling Jaya	7	243 - 966
13	Mumbai	4	401 - 900
14	Madrid	8	287 - 861
15	Dublin	5	349 - 860
16	Budapest	3	263 - 750
17	Bristol	2	268 - 666
18	Tokyo	6	146 - 600
19	Brussels	5	139 - 560
20	Sydney	5	135 - 550
21	Montpellier	1	201 - 500
22	Manchester	2	176 - 450
23	Kelowna	2	151 - 450
24	New York	5	185 - 443
25	Mexico City	3	102 - 405
26	Bangalore	2	184 - 400
27	Cyberjaya	2	102 - 400
28	Taipei	3	102 - 400
29	Berlin	6	135 - 370
30	Kerala	1	167 - 333
31	Makati City	1	167 - 333
32	Bangkok	5	75 - 320
33	Atlanta	4	113 - 320
34	Munich	4	116 - 275
35	Beijing	3	68 - 266
36	Pune	6	56 - 260
37	Copenhagen	3	63 - 260
38	Batam	1	100 - 250
39	Bali	1	125 - 250
40	Oslo	3	53 - 220
41	Dallas	2	78 - 216
42	Hyderabad	3	101 - 210
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	Charleroi	1	51 - 200
49	Antwerp	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	Viborg	2	12 - 60
77	Minsk	2	12 - 60
78	Kyiv	2	12 - 60
79	Hong Kong	1	11 - 50
80	Bengaluru	1	11 - 50
81	Navi Mumbai	1	11 - 50
82	Denpasar	1	11 - 50
83	Wellington	1	11 - 50
84	Tenerife	1	11 - 50
85	Sandy	1	11 - 50
86	Brisbane	1	11 - 50
87	Billund	1	11 - 50
88	Ankara	1	11 - 50
89	Reykjavik	1	11 - 50
90	Vienna	1	11 - 50
91	Helsinki	1	11 - 50
92	St Petersburg	1	11 - 50
93	Yerevan	1	11 - 50
94	Warnemünde	1	5 - 25
95	Coimbatore	1	5 - 25
96	Barcelona	1	5 - 25
97	Calgary	1	5 - 25
98	Houston	1	5 - 25
99	Amman	2	2 - 20
100	Athens	1	1 - 10
101	Ahmedabad	1	1 - 10
102	Gothenburg	1	1 - 10
103	Edmonton	1	1 - 10
104	Sudbury	1	1 - 10
105	Miami	1	1 - 10
106	Genk	1	1 - 10
107	Liege	1	1 - 10
108	Suzhou	1	1 - 10
109	Aarhus	1	1 - 10
110	Kaohsiung City	1	1 - 10
111	Tunis	1	1 - 10
112	London	1	0 - 5
113	Lyon	0	0 - 0
114	Salon de Provence	0	0 - 0
115	Bordeaux	0	0 - 0
116	Stuttgart	0	0 - 0
117	Frankfurt	1	0 - 0
118	Bonn	0	0 - 0
119	Cologne	0	0 - 0
120	Munster	0	0 - 0
121	Dusseldorf	0	0 - 0
122	Leipzig	0	0 - 0
123	Birkesdorf	0	0 - 0
124	Würselen	0	0 - 0
125	Essen	0	0 - 0
126	Offenburg	0	0 - 0
127	Karlsruhe	0	0 - 0
128	Regensburg	0	0 - 0
129	Wurzburg	0	0 - 0
130	Larissa	0	0 - 0
131	Heraklion	0	0 - 0
132	Goa	0	0 - 0
133	Chandigarh	0	0 - 0
134	New Delhi	0	0 - 0
135	Namakkal	0	0 - 0
136	Bandung	1	0 - 0
137	Tangerang	0	0 - 0
138	Yogyakarta	0	0 - 0
139	Cork	1	0 - 0
140	Florence	0	0 - 0
141	Meran	0	0 - 0
142	Fukuoka	0	0 - 0
143	Sendai	0	0 - 0
144	Osaka	0	0 - 0
145	Nagoya	0	0 - 0
146	Monterrey	0	0 - 0
147	Tijuana	0	0 - 0
148	Ensenada	0	0 - 0
149	Amsterdam	0	0 - 0
150	Badhoevedorp	0	0 - 0
151	The Hague	0	0 - 0
152	Leeuwarden	0	0 - 0
153	Utrecht	0	0 - 0
154	Rotterdam	0	0 - 0
155	Eindhoven	0	0 - 0
156	Volda	0	0 - 0
157	Bergen	0	0 - 0
158	Busan	0	0 - 0
159	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	0	0 - 0
160	Stockholm	0	0 - 0
161	Uppsala	0	0 - 0
162	Malmo	0	0 - 0
163	Skövde	0	0 - 0
164	Lidköping	0	0 - 0
165	Karlsborg	0	0 - 0
166	Chiang Mai	0	0 - 0
167	Birmingham	0	0 - 0
168	Cardiff	0	0 - 0
169	Bournemouth	0	0 - 0
170	Leeds	0	0 - 0
171	Edinburgh	0	0 - 0
172	Lincoln	1	0 - 0
173	Derby	0	0 - 0
174	Brighton	0	0 - 0
175	Liverpool	0	0 - 0
176	Cambridge	0	0 - 0
177	Newcastle	0	0 - 0
178	Oxford	0	0 - 0
179	Sheffield	0	0 - 0
180	Nottingham	0	0 - 0
181	Dundee	0	0 - 0
182	Newport	0	0 - 0
183	Wakefield	0	0 - 0
184	Leamington Spa	0	0 - 0
185	Falmouth	0	0 - 0
186	Middlesbrough	0	0 - 0
187	Sunderland	0	0 - 0
188	Milton Keynes	0	0 - 0
189	Guildford	0	0 - 0
190	Farnborough	0	0 - 0
191	York	0	0 - 0
192	Hitchin	0	0 - 0
193	Chatham	0	0 - 0
194	Penryn	0	0 - 0
195	Piedmont	0	0 - 0
196	Lunenberg	0	0 - 0
197	Charlottetown	0	0 - 0
198	Regina	0	0 - 0
199	Saskatoon	0	0 - 0
200	Winnipeg	0	0 - 0
201	Moncton	0	0 - 0
202	St. Johns	0	0 - 0
203	Boston	0	0 - 0
204	Detroit	0	0 - 0
205	Savannah	0	0 - 0
206	Novato	0	0 - 0
207	Seattle	0	0 - 0
208	San Diego	0	0 - 0
209	Andover	0	0 - 0
210	Redmond	0	0 - 0
211	Madison	0	0 - 0
212	Rockville	0	0 - 0
213	Maui	0	0 - 0
214	Cedar Falls	0	0 - 0
215	San Jose	0	0 - 0
216	Durham	0	0 - 0
217	Tallahassee	0	0 - 0
218	Cambridge	0	0 - 0
219	Cary	0	0 - 0
220	New Orleans	0	0 - 0
221	Las Vegas	0	0 - 0
222	Spokane	0	0 - 0
223	Minneapolis	0	0 - 0
224	Denver	0	0 - 0
225	Ann Arbor	0	0 - 0
226	Washington DC	0	0 - 0
227	Indianapolis	0	0 - 0
228	Salt Lake City	0	0 - 0
229	St. Louis	0	0 - 0
230	Oklahoma City	0	0 - 0
231	Philadelphia	0	0 - 0
232	Albany	0	0 - 0
233	Portsmouth	0	0 - 0
234	Baton Rouge	0	0 - 0
235	Raleigh	0	0 - 0
236	Baltimore	0	0 - 0
237	Grand Rapids	0	0 - 0
238	Kalamazoo	0	0 - 0
239	Troy	0	0 - 0
240	Albuquerque	0	0 - 0
241	Bend	0	0 - 0
242	Sacramento	0	0 - 0
243	Merritt Island	0	0 - 0
244	Champaign	0	0 - 0
245	Shreveport	0	0 - 0
246	Canberra	0	0 - 0
247	Adelaide	0	0 - 0
248	Wuxi	0	0 - 0
249	Xiamen	0	0 - 0
250	Dachang	0	0 - 0
251	ShenZhen	0	0 - 0
252	Chengdu	0	0 - 0
253	Wuhan	0	0 - 0
254	Hangzhou	0	0 - 0
255	Guangzhou	0	0 - 0
256	Luoyang	0	0 - 0
257	Xi'an	0	0 - 0
258	Fuzhou	0	0 - 0
259	Aalborg	0	0 - 0
260	Rio de Janeiro	0	0 - 0
261	Curitiba	0	0 - 0
262	Lviv	0	0 - 0
263	Kharkiv	0	0 - 0
264	Odesa	0	0 - 0
265	Johannesburg	0	0 - 0
266	Cape Town	5	0 - 0
267	San Salvador	0	0 - 0
268	Istanbul	0	0 - 0
269	Brno	0	0 - 0
270	Montevideo	0	0 - 0
271	Lucerne	0	0 - 0
272	Basel	0	0 - 0
273	Bratislava	0	0 - 0
274	Warsaw	0	0 - 0
275	Kraków	0	0 - 0
276	Rzeszow	0	0 - 0
277	Lodz	0	0 - 0
278	Katowice	0	0 - 0
279	Kathmandu	0	0 - 0
280	Sousse	0	0 - 0
281	Sofia	0	0 - 0
282	Cluj-Napoca	0	0 - 0
283	Bucharest	0	0 - 0
284	Hanoi	0	0 - 0
285	Da Nang	0	0 - 0
286	Saigon	0	0 - 0
287	Ho Chi Minh City	0	0 - 0
288	Novi Sad	0	0 - 0
289	Belgrade	0	0 - 0
290	Almaty	0	0 - 0
291	Graz	0	0 - 0
292	Innsbruck	0	0 - 0
293	Manila	0	0 - 0
294	Tampere	0	0 - 0
295	Malta	0	0 - 0
296	Ramallah	0	0 - 0
297	Dubai	0	0 - 0
298	Moscow	0	0 - 0
299	Novosibirsk	0	0 - 0
300	Nizhny Novgorod	0	0 - 0
301	Taganrog	0	0 - 0
302	Krasnodar	0	0 - 0
303	Nicosia	0	0 - 0
304	Limassol	0	0 - 0
305	Vilnius	0	0 - 0
306	Buenos Aires	0	0 - 0
307	Riyadh	0	0 - 0
308	Santiago	0	0 - 0
309	Cairo	0	0 - 0
310	Tbilisi	0	0 - 0
311	Lisbon	1	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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