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Top 25 Animation outsourcing companies based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 498 animation outsourcing companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 4,969 professional contacts across them, including 973 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers animation outsourcing companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 27, 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.
The 25 largest animation outsourcing companies based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 415 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aardman, based in Bristol (UK) co-founded and run by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, is a world leader in animation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 356 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Celebrating over 25 years of Blue Zoo!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 329 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PASSION PICTURES is an independent production company founded in 1987.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 300 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Snipple we produce, create and deliver high quality animation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Animation with character.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re a globally renowned animation studio based in East LDN, working across advertising, interactive media, music videos, and original content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a vibrant animation studio in London, specialising in character, design and storytelling using digital traditional animation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cookie is the animation studio busily cooking up animation on behalf of brand, broadcast, and advertising patrons.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Red Star Studio is a creative services company producing 3D animation for TV commercials, corporates and multimedia; and CGI effects for TV and film productions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mainframe is creative production studio specialising in motion design and animation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Outsourcing Studio for the Entertainment Industry- Concept Art - 3d Art - Tech Art - Animation - Game Design - Programming - Art Direction - Rigging” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cloth Cat is one of the leading animation and games companies in the UK and we’ve produced over 100 hours of content from our studio in the heart of Cardiff, the capital city of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Feed Me Light Ltd is an award winning creative animation studio based in London and Riyadh specialising in Entertainment, Events and sports.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A+C Studios is an animation studio specialising in stop-motion animation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fudge Animation Studios are a full service agency who astonish, inspire and motivate target audiences with exceptional character animation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CharacterShop are an award-winning animation studio and production company, based in Worcester, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We're an EMMY and BAFTA-winning Animation & VFX Studio, deeply passionate about filmmaking.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Super Spline Studios is the UK's most established specialised animation co-development studio for the games industry and more!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Compost Creative is an Emmy award-winning studio founded by Colin Thornton, Neil Wilson and Steven Flynn back in 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Panic Studio is an award winning design and animation studio, who loves adding new emotions and colours to stories or creating brand new stories from strategy to polished…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dynamo is a specialist creative services company, providing bespoke digital, editorial, design, illustration and animation services to global B2B & B2C clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Flipbook produce great visual stories by fostering a culture that embraces artistic excellence, technical ingenuity, innovation, creativity, collaboration and a solid dose of fun.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Opus Artz is an outsourcing art & entertainment design agency based in London, UK with a strong creative team of highly experienced artists focused on production design We provide…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ALT animation passionately providing imaginative and creative work through considered collaboration and efficient delivery.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bumpybox is an animation company based in Cardiff created by Sam Wright, Leon Dexter and Toke Jepsen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
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: animation outsourcing companies. 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 animation outsourcing companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of animation outsourcing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name animation outsourcing companies. 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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Animation outsourcing companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 498 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 animation outsourcing companies, 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “animation outsourcing companies”. 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 animation outsourcing companies), 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 animation outsourcing companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 973 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 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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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 animation outsourcing companies, 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 animation outsourcing companies are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 498 animation outsourcing companies headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
Aardman, headquartered in Bristol, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most animation outsourcing companies?
London leads with 181 headquartered companies, followed by Bristol (25) and Manchester (19).
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 973 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 498 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 27, 2026.
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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.
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