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Top 25 Puppet animation companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 93 puppet animation companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 828 professional contacts across them, including 173 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers puppet animation 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 20, 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 puppet animation companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Jim Henson Company has remained an established leader in family entertainment for over 70 years and is recognized as an innovator in puppetry, animatronics, and digital…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stoopid Buddy Stoodios is an artist-friendly collective that houses some of the finest talent in animation and entertainment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bent Image Lab is a mixed media animation company with a specialization in stop motion animation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For 35 years, Michael Curry Design has been a leader in entertainment and attractions around the world, creating some of the most iconic forms of puppetry, set design, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™ provides digital puppetry, animatronic creatures, animation, and soft puppets to the international film, television, theater, live event and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mighty Oak is an Emmy and Clio award-winning, woman-and-queer-owned creative studio based in New York City.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Open the Portal is a full service stop motion animation and audio studio based in Los Angeles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bix Pix is an award winning entertainment studio that works in animation, primarily stop-motion mixed media, using a cornucopia of materials, where characters and worlds are made…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded by brothers, David Rudman and Adam Rudman, Spiffy Pictures is a creative development and production company specializing in animated and live-action puppet-based…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Puppet Heap is a unique design and production studio specializing in the creation of iconic characters for all sorts of media including film, television, advertising, theater, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Los Angeles-based Romaire Studios, Inc.(RS) is one of the foremost providers of live-action creatures, characters and animated props for the entertainment industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “An award winning director of films, advertising, and digital content with a specialty in puppets, miniatures, practical effects, and all forms of animation!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FOLKMANIS – the leader in specialty puppets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Ancient Order is a high-imagination, creative storytelling production company that specializes in stop-motion animation, puppetry and unique media experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Axtell Expressions is a Creative Design Studio specializing in Characters, Animatronics & Puppets, AI, and Interactive Displays.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Jam Roll Studios is a video and animation production company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Linguinis: Nick Cinelli - Creative Director Jenny Shaughnessy - Producer Jon Tanners - Producer Animation Services- Stop Motion Animation - 2D Animation - Puppet and Set…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Plumicorn is a full-service studio specializing in stop-motion animation, practical effects, prop fabrication, animatronics, character and puppet design, and miniature set…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hi!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Saints & Poets Production Company was formed in 2010 by Jess Wilson and Kevin Christopher to produce theatre and film projects which feature or are enhanced by elements of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cleo Dog Productions is a production company specializing in animation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Puppet Pie is a puppet building studio in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Barefoot Puppet Theatre tours award-winning programs to theatres, schools, libraries, children's museums and more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: puppet animation 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 puppet animation companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of puppet animation companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name puppet animation 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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Puppet animation companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 93 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 puppet animation 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 “puppet animation 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 puppet animation 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 puppet animation 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, 173 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 20, 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.
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 puppet animation 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 puppet animation companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 93 puppet animation 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?
The JIM Henson Company, headquartered in Studio City, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most puppet animation companies?
Los Angeles leads with 13 headquartered companies, followed by New York (6) and Portland (4).
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 173 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 93 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 20, 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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