Top 8 Most Famous European Animation Studios
The European animation industry is making a significant cultural and economic contribution to the economy of the continent. There are many different animation ... read more...studios in Europe, but which one is the most famous? TOPLIST will present you with this list.
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The first European animation studio on the list today is Framestore studio. Framestore, which was founded in 1986, is a British animation, creative, and visual effects studio. Framestore has provided some of the most successful films and movies in recent memory to people, not only in Europe but also around the world.
Some parts of Harry Potter, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, some feature moments from Avatar (2009), are some of the successful and famous products made by this British animation studio. In addition, Framestore is also famous for FairyTale: A True Story (1997), The Tale of Despereaux (2008), Tom and Jerry (2021), and so on. In recent years, Framestore Studio has won some Oscar awards and BAFTA honors for its work.
Headquarters: London, EnglandYear established: 1986
Website: https://framestore.com
Top famous movies: The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), FairyTale: A True Story (1997), The Tale of Despereaux (2008), Tom and Jerry (2021),…
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Framestore, which was founded in 1986, is a British animation, creative, and visual effects studio. Photo: framestore.com -
The next European animation studio on the list of the most famous animation studios is Moving Picture Company. This European animation studio was established in 1970 and has headquarters in London, England. The Moving Picture Company is a company of Technicolor that specializes in computer animation and digital visual effects for movies and other media. Furious 7, Guardians of the Galaxy, X-men: First Class, and Terminator Genisys are just a few of Moving Picture Company’s notable projects.
In addition, Moving Picture Company has studios in many different countries in the world. For example, Mexico City, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Paris, New York, London, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Shanghai, and Montreal are among the cities where they have studios. Some famous movies produced by the Moving Picture Company are Seventh Son, Ronin, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,...
Headquarters: London, England
Year established: 1970
Website: https://moving-picture.com
Top famous movies: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Guardians of the Galaxy, Sunshine, Seventh Son, Ronin,…
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Double Negative is a major visual effects and animation studio for feature films and television in the world. Double Negative has more than 20 years of expertise in the industry and they are proud to have earned six of the last 10 Academy Awards for "Best Visual Effects". This British visual effects and computer animation studio started out with only 30 employees in 1998 and has now grown to over a thousand employees.
For some films, including Interstellar, Inception, Sherlock Holmes, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Double Negative has won numerous Visual Effects Society, BAFTA awards, and Academy Awards. Double Negative also contributed to Christopher Nolan's critically acclaimed Batman trilogy. Some of the top famous movies of Double Negative are The King, Jumanji: The Next Level, The Addams Family,…
Headquarters: Fitzrovia, London, England
Year established: 1998
Website: https://dneg.com
Top famous movies: The King, Jumanji: The Next Level, The Addams Family, Terminator Genisys, Ron's Gone Wrong,…
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Double Negative has more than 20 years of expertise in the industry. Photo: biv.com -
Illumination Mac Guff, founded in 2011, is a new animation production studio in France. Illumination Mac Guff has headquarters in the heart of Paris, and this animation studio is dedicated to the creation of Illumination Entertainment's animated films for Universal Pictures. Despicable Me, the first film by Illumination Mac Guff, was well-received by reviewers and opened in third place for the year, behind Toy Story 3 and Shrek Forever After.
Minions, Illumination Mac Guff’s most recent movie, was one of the top-grossing movies of 2015, and it was the first non-Disney animated movie to reach $1 billion in the world. Illumination Mac Guff is best known for Despicable Me, Minions, The Secret Life of Pets, and Sing, as well as their most recent film, The Grinch.
Headquarters: Paris, France
Year established: 2011
Website: https://illuminationmacguff.com
Top famous movies: Despicable Me, The Grinch, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing, The Lorax,…
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Illumination Mac Guff, founded in 2011, is a new animation production studio in France. limphilippe.artstation.com -
Pixomondo was founded in 2001 and has headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. Pixomondo is known as a visual effects company with studios all over the world that create visual effects for cinema, television, and other media. In addition, Pixomondo employs more than 400 artists throughout their studios in Los Angeles, Toronto, Shanghai, Munich, Frankfurt, Beijing, Stuttgart, and Baton Rouge.
Furious 7, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Star Trek Into Darkness, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 are just a few of Pixomondo's most recent projects. Pixomondo has been hired by the world's best content producers for more than two decades to bring their concepts to life, and they have won Oscar and Emmy awards along the way.
Headquarters: Frankfurt, Germany
Year established: 2001
Website: https://pixomondo.com
Top famous movies: Iron Man 2, Ninja Assasin, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2,…
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Pixomondo was founded in 2001 and has headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. Photo: 3dtotal.com -
Scanline VFX is the next European animation studio on the list today. Founded in 1989, Scanline VFX is a German visual effects studio based in Munich, Vancouver, and Los Angeles.
Scanline VFX’s Flowline software, which is used to produce fluid effects like fire and water, is well-known and recognized all over the world. Scanline VFX worked on some notable projects like 300: Rise of an Empire, Iron Man 3, The Avengers, Man of Steel, and The Wolf of Wall Street, just to name a few. Scanline VFX was nominated for many famous and honorable awards, for example, the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects and so on. In 2010, Scanline VFX earned the first Visual Effects Society Award.
Headquarters: Munich, GermanyYear established: 1989
Website: https://scanlinevfx.com
Top famous movies: 300: Rise of Empire, Iron man 3, Man of Steel, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Avengers, Black Adam, Cowboy Bebop, Don’t Look Up,…
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Scanline VFX is a German animation studio founded in 1989. Photo: scanlinevfx.com -
The European animation studio ranked seventh on the list today is Rise FX. Sven Pannicke, Robert Pinnow, Markus Degen, and Florian Gellinger created Rise FX (Visual Effects Studios) in Berlin in 2007. Although Rise FX began with only four artists in a single room, they have since grown to nearly 100 employees.
Rise FX has not only worked largely on European projects, but Rise FX has also worked on American projects. For example, some of the most famous and best-known projects are Iron Man 3, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Today, Rise FX animation studio employs over 140 full-time employees and 120 freelance artists in many different countries around the world, such as Berlin, London, Munich, Stuttgart, Cologne, and so on.
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Year established: 2007
Website: https://risefx.com
Top famous movies: Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp,…
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Rise FX has not only worked largely on European projects, but Rise FX has also worked on American projects. Photo: cartoonbrew.com -
Aardman Animations (commonly known as Aardman Studios or just Aardman) is a Bristol-based British animation studio. Aardman Animations Studio is most well-known for stop-motion clay animation films like Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, and Morph, which feature plasticine characters like Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, and Morph.
Aardman Animations has cooperated on feature films with DreamWorks Animation, Sony Pictures Animation, and StudioCanal, despite producing a lot of television series and short films. Between 2000 and 2015, all of their films grossed more than their budgets and received extremely high Rotten Tomatoes ratings. Aardman Animation has created many animated films, shorts, videos, and television shows, as well as commercials. The followings are the significant feature films produced by Aardman Animations: Chicken Run (2000), The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Early Man (2018), The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012), and so on.
Headquarters: Bristol, EnglandYear established: 1972
Website: https://aardman.com
Top famous movies: A Close Shave, Early Man, Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,…
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Aardman Animations is a British animation studio. aardman.com
