The Cream O’ the Crop is our list of the best of the best. It’s not an exhaustive directory; it’s our opinion of who’s on top right now. That’s why it’s so short.

• THESE ARE NOT PAID LINKS. We chose these links because we sincerely admire the work these studios and individuals produce.
• This list is not static. It will change as studios and individuals update their sites, and as our team of contributors changes its collective mind.
• Please stay tuned to Motionographer for a full directory of studios and individuals. We are working on building a smart, searchable database to share the work of all the great studios who aren’t on the Cream.

For a full explanation of our selection process, see our Cream Critera.

Studios

This category is normally limited to 10 entries. Studios are listed alphabetically.

Updated 21 Apr 2010

• 1st Ave Machine / New York
• Buck / Los Angeles and New York
• Digital Kitchen / Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York
• Elastic / Los Angeles
• Motion Theory / Los Angeles
• National Television / Los Angeles
• Psyop / Los Angeles and New York
• Sehsucht / Hamburg and Berlin
• Studio AKA / London
• Superfad / Seattle, Los Angeles, New York and London

Production Companies

This category is currently limited to 20 entries (in alphabetical order).

Updated 9 Mar 2010

• Blacklist / New York
• Blink / Blink Ink / London
• Boolab / Barcelona
• Curious Pictures / New York
• Filmtecknarna / Stockholm and New York
• Hornet / Los Angeles and New York
• MJZ / Los Angeles, New York and London
• Nexus / London
• Paranoid / Los Angeles, Paris and Sao Paolo
• Partizan / London, Paris, Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Shanghai and Mumbai
• Passion Pictures / London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
• Resource / Paris
• Rokkit / London
• RSA / Los Angles, New York, London and Shanghai
• Smuggler / Los Angeles, New York and London
• Spy Films / Toronto
• Stink / Skunk / London, Paris, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles
• The Ebeling Group / Los Angeles & New York
• Wanda / Paris

Individuals

Due to the massive number of potential candidates for this section, we have decided to discontinue it while we come up with a better system for recognizing individual talents.

To browse freelancers working around the world, please visit MographWiki.

Visual Effects/Post-Production Studios

This category is currently limited to 20 entries (in alphabetical order).

• A52 / Los Angeles
• Animal Logic / Sydney and Los Angeles
• Blur / Los Angeles
• BUF / Paris
• Digital Domain / Los Angeles and Vancouver
• Eight VFX / Los Angeles
• Framestore / London and New York
• Fuel / Sydney
• Glassworks / London and Amsterdam
• Mac Guff / Paris
• MassMarket / Los Angeles and New York
• Method Studios / Los Angeles and New York
• Mikros Image / Paris
• Oktobor / Auckland NEW
• Radium / Los Angeles and Dallas
• Public VFX / Los Angeles
• Sway / Los Angeles
• The Embassy / Vancouver
• The Mill / London, Los Angeles and New York
• The Moving Picture Company / Los Angeles, London & Vancouver

Sound Design & Music Composition

This category is currently limited to 20 entries (in alphabetical order).

Updated 25 Sep 2009

• Adelphoi / London and Berlin
• Antfood / New York
• Cypher Audio Toronto
• David Kamp / Berlin
• DeadMono / Stockholm
• Echolab / Dublin
• Expansion Team / New York
• Freefarm / UK
• Hatfarm / Portland
• HECQ / Berlin
• Huma Huma / Los Angeles and New York
• Human / Los Angeles, New York and Paris
• Mophonics / Los Angeles and New York
• Q Department / New York and Rotterdam
• Radium Audio Ltd / London
• Singing Serpent / San Diego and New York
• Stimmüng / Los Angeles
• Combustion / Brazil
• Waveplant
• Yessian / Los Angeles, New York and Farmington Hills (Michigan)