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.

Motion Design/Animation Studios

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

• Blind / Los Angeles and New York
• Brand New School / Los Angeles and New York
• Buck / Los Angeles and New York
• Digital Kitchen / Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York
• Eyeball / New York
• Imaginary Forces / New York and Los Angeles
• Lobo / Sao Paulo and New York
• Logan / Los Angeles
• Motion Theory / Los Angeles
• National Television / Los Angeles
• Prologue / Los Angeles
• Psyop / Los Angeles and New York
• Sehsucht / Hamburg
• Shilo / Del Mar (California) and New York
• Stardust / Los Angeles and New York
• Superfad / Seattle, Los Angeles, New York and London
• Transistor Studios / Los Angeles and New York
• Trollbäck + Company / New York
• Universal Everything / Sheffield (England)
• yU+co. / Hollywood

Motion Design/Animation Production Companies

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

• Bermuda Shorts / London
• Blacklist / New York
• Boolab / Barcelona
• Curious Pictures / New York
• Hornet / Los Angeles and New York
• Nexus / London
• Not To Scale / London
• Paranoid US / Los Angeles
• Partizan / London, Paris, Los Angeles, New York
• Passion Pictures / London, Paris and Melbourne
• Picasso Pictures / London
• Rokkit / London
• RSA / London, New York and Los Angeles
• Sherbet / London
• Smuggler / London and New York
• Spy Films / Toronto
• Stink / London, Paris and Berlin
• Studio AKA / London
• The Ebeling Group / San Francisco, New York and London
• Wanda / Paris

Motion Design/Animation Individuals

This category is currently limited to 30 entries (in alphabetical order).

• Anthony Furlong
• Brian Michael Gosset
• Bryce Wymer
• Carlo Vega
• Castleforte (Brian Castleforte)
  
• Chris Saunders
• Cisma (Denis Kamioka)
  
• Decoy (Ryan Rothermel)
• dieLAMB (Matt Lambert)
• Diogo Kalil
• Dreamers Ink Aeshetics (Mitchell Paone)
• Dstrukt (Chris Hewitt)
• Erin Sarofsky
• Frankenstyles (Stephen Kelleher)
• Grow Design Work (Bran Dougherty-Johnson)
• Guilherme Marcondes
• Heebok Lee
• In Graphics We Trust (Sebastian Onufszak)
• Jon Saunders
• Justin Harder
• Kimberly Dulaney
• Mateuniverse (Mate Steinforth)
• Mato Atom
• Mutanthands (James Wignall)
• Renascent (Joost Korngold)
• Saiman Chow
• StudioCHU
• Tavo
• The Beast is Back (Christopher Lee)
• The Ronin (Rob Chiu)

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
• Eight VFX / Los Angeles
• Framestore / London
• Fuel / Sydney
• Glassworks / London and Amsterdam
• Mac Guff / Los Angeles and Paris
• MassMarket / New York
• Method Studios / Los Angeles
• Mikros Image / Paris
• Radium / San Francisco and Los Angeles
• Special Branch / New York
• Sway / Los Angeles
• The Embassy / Vancouver
• The Mill / London, Los Angeles and New York
• The Moving Picture Company / London
• The Orphanage / San Francisco and Hollywood

Sound Design & Music Composition

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

• Adelphoi / London and Hamburg
• Cypher Audio
• David Kamp / Essen (Germany)
• DeadMono / Stockholm
• Echolab / Dublin
• Expansion Team / New York
• Freefarm / UK
• Hatfarm / Seattle
• HECQ / Berlin
• Huma Huma / Los Angeles and New York
• Human / Los Angeles, New York and Paris
• Karma Groove / New York
• 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)