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Top 25 Character design companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 793 character design companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 4,391 professional contacts across them, including 808 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers character design companies headquartered in the United States, 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 19, 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 character design companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 269 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hello, we are Blur Studio, an award-winning CG animation company in Los Angeles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 243 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re an independent animation studio that is owned and operated by artists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Incessant Rain Studios is a state-of-the-art Animation, Games and Visual Effects studio that develops and produces digital animated properties for theatrical, television, home…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Liquid Development, we know creating content for the next-generation of gaming machines can be a grueling process for publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HouseSpecial can make anything move.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2009 by brothers Josh and Mike Grier as an animation and digital content creator, Ember Lab’s vision is to create immersive and evocative stories with characters that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “House of Moves is a full-service animation production studio where imagination and technology converge with inspiring artists within the entertainment, gaming and commercial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a remote animation studio that specializes in gameplay and cinematic animations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ˈbrāzən/ adjective - unapologetically bold and daring Brazen Animation is an award-winning studio crafting unforgettable 2D and 3D animation and cinematic experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dardo Studios is your Art Department in a Box™.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Concept Art Partnership Studio serving the highest quality concept art for Feature Films, Games and TV.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Refuge is an animation and visual effects studio that specializes in building characters, creatures, and environments of all kinds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Future House Studios is an award winning animation, game development, and visual effects company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based in Santa Monica, California our team is made up of talented artists, developers, character riggers, 3D modelers, in-house customer service agents, and a few office dogs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “West Studio is a concept art and visual development studio that blends passion and process to create some of the best concept art in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PicturePlane creates compelling visual content for packaging, advertising, and entertainment marketing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “System Studios is a Creative Game Development and Art Solutions company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Parallax Studios is the premier production and visual development studio based in Los Angeles, offering a suite of visualization, art and design services by a seasoned team of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “More important than our client list is what we can do for you.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Mertz Design, we render ideas to life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Premier Co-Dev and Art Outsource studio specializing in Digital Twins, 3D Content Creation, Games, VFX, and Films.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We Specialise in Image, Motion, & Interactive Content Creative 3D Design & Animation Interactive Digital Solutions Transforming visions into digital experiences Founded in 2007…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Floor 84 Studio was established in by founder and CEO, Jeff Hardy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ALTERED FX is a full-service, story-driven animation and creative production studio based in Atlanta, USA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1989 by husband and wife team Sue and Terry Shakespeare and partner David Molina, CREATIVE CAPERS ENTERTAINMENT has secured its place as one of Hollywood’s leading…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: character design 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 character design companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of character design companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name character design 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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Character design companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 793 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 character design 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 States whose own description of what they do matches “character design 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 character design 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 character design companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 808 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 19, 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.
Character design companies by metro
- Character design companies in Los Angeles80
- Character design companies in New York46
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 character design 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 character design companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 793 character design companies headquartered in the United States 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?
Blur Studio, headquartered in Culver City, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most character design companies?
Los Angeles leads with 80 headquartered companies, followed by New York (46) and Portland (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 808 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 793 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 19, 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.
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