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Top 25 Animated studios based in Toronto, Canada

Name: Animated studios based in Toronto, Canada
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 7, 2026 114 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 114 animated studios headquartered in Toronto, Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 2,248 professional contacts across them, including 616 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.

This list covers animated studios headquartered in Toronto, Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 7, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 7, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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2,248Contacts tracked

616Verified emails

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The 25 largest animated studios based in Toronto, Canada

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 114 animated studios based in Toronto, Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 7, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to animated studios: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Guru Studio	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	411 contacts →
	“Guru Studio is a creative-driven entertainment company and an industry leader in animated storytelling.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
2	9 Story Media Group	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	318 contacts →
	“9 Story Media Group is an industry leading creator, producer and distributor of award-winning animated and live action content for young audiences around the world.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
3	Nelvana	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	501-1,000	190 contacts →
	“Nelvana is a world-leading international producer, distributor and licensor of children’s animated and live-action content and merchandising agent.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
4	Sinking Ship Entertainment	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	134 contacts →
	“Sinking Ship Entertainment is a multi-award-winning production, distribution, and interactive company specializing in family and kids’ live-action and CGI-blended content.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
5	House Of Cool INC	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	84 contacts →
	“House of Cool is the industry leader in animated pre-production, specializing in both feature films and television series.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
6	Shaftesbury	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	11-50	84 contacts →
	“Shaftesbury is an award-winning creator and producer of original content for television, film, and digital, established in 1987 by Christina Jennings, Chairman and President.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
7	Herne Hill	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	77 contacts →
	“Herne Hill is a production company for the new era of filmmaking.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
8	Co3 Animation	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	201-500	68 contacts →
	“CO3 Animation provides concept-through-delivery development and production services for clients seeking 2D, 3D and hybrid animation services.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
9	Snowball Studios LTD	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	57 contacts →
	“3D Animation, Visual Effects & Content factory Welcome to the World of Snowball Studios.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
10	Industrial Brothers	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	49 contacts →
	“We believe that valuable children's entertainment gives kids a sense of personal empowerment and a feeling of ownership with the content they interact with.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
11	Little Blackstone Studios	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	11-50	43 contacts →
	“Little Blackstone Studios is an Emmy-nominated and Oscar-shortlisted animation studio that arrived on the Canadian landscape in 2009.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
12	Elliott Animation INC	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	41 contacts →
	“As one of Canada’s few artist owned and managed animation studios we at Elliott Animation believe the best stories start and end with talent.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
13	ZINK	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	n/a	31 contacts →
	“Zink helps brands and agencies connect with consumers by making irresistible content.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
14	Epic Story Media	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	24 contacts →
	“Epic Story Media is a kids franchise company investing in creator visions with talented brand management, best-in-class development, production, distribution, and licensing…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
15	Thought Café	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	“Award-winning animation, design, visual effects and VR/AR studio.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
16	Lofty SKY Entertainment	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	“Lofty Sky Entertainment (formerly Mark Media Corp.) is an innovative film, television, and digital media production company focused on telling incredible stories and creating…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
17	Tantrum Studio	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	“We are Tantrum Studio – an artist-driven creative studio based in Toronto.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
18	Bigstudios INC	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	“Big Studios is a multi-award-winning artist-driven animation and motion graphics studio based in the heart of Toronto, Canada.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
19	Dream Farm Studios	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	16 contacts →
	“Dream Farm is a character-driven animation studio creating 3D & 2D animation series with passion and masterful artistry.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
20	Switch VFX And Animation	Strong evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	“Switch VFX and Animation is the only award-winning, artist owned, boutique studio in Canada that provides exceptional digital visual effects and animated content from initial…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
21	Schoolism Imaginism Studios	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	“Imaginism Studios is an independent, Toronto-based studio specializing in pre-production character and concept design for film, TV, gaming, and publishing.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
22	Tangent Animation	Partial evidence	Toronto, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	51-200	12 contacts →
	“Animation production is a demanding task requiring innovative creative teams, brilliant production engineering and sophisticated business affairs to ensure top quality projects…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
23	Aircraft Pictures	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	“Aircraft Pictures is an Academy Award® and Emmy® nominated producer of scripted content for kids, families and young adults.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
24	Gazelle Automations	Partial evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	“Founded by wife-and-husband team Lindsay & Justin Lee, Gazelle Automations is an award-winning film production studio based in Toronto, Canada specializing in puppets, model…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026
25	Transitional Forms	Indirect evidence	Toronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 7, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	“Transitional Forms is a Toronto-based entertainment innovation company building at the frontier of generative media and human imagination.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: animated studios. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names animated studios.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of animated studios, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name animated studios. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Animated studios based in Toronto, Canada at a glance

As of Sep 7, 2026

27.4%Verified-email coverage

19.7Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

100.0%Largest-city concentration · Toronto

Sep 7, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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201-500

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Email recency for this list is measured across the whole Canada list rather than this city, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Toronto, over 114 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among animated studios, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Toronto, Canada whose own description of what they do matches “animated studios”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names animated studios), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among animated studios, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Toronto are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 616 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 7, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Animated studios by metro in Canada

Animated studios in Toronto114
Animated studios in Vancouver63
Animated studios in Montreal53

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names animated studios, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many animated studios are there based in Toronto, Canada?

RevenueBase identified 114 animated studios headquartered in Toronto, Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Guru Studio, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most animated studios?

Toronto leads with 114 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (63) and Montreal (53).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 616 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 114 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 7, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.