Visual Effects & Animation World Atlas

The Visual Effects & Animation World Atlas 2025 is live. You can download it for FREE at www.vfxatlas.com. This year's edition is a significant upgrade, with data covering 123,635 professionals working at 2,450 companies around the world. Did the global VFX and animation industry grow or shrink over the past 12 months? What's the average size of an animation studio in Canada? What percentage of people work remotely? How long does it take to fill an open VFX or animation role in Australia? Where do VFX and animation professionals find work in other industries? The Atlas has answers for you! You'll find summary articles on the industry in Belgium, Germany, Poland, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, the US, and the Rio de la Plata region of South America, plus an update from India. We've worked hard to make this the resource that our industry deserves. Hope you like the result! #vfx #animation #vfxatlas

Launch announcement! The Visual Effects & Animation World Atlas 2025 will go live at 7 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, July 29th. You can download your FREE copy at www.vfxatlas.com. Thank you once again to our sponsors, who enable us to make the Atlas available to readers at no cost: FranceVFX motus VFX UK Screen Alliance British Film Commission PFX Lacus Post Rushing PR Yotta Data Services Private Limited Amazon Web Services (AWS) Visual Effects Society Herne Hill Animation Media Creators Region Stuttgart (AMCRS) HDRI Intelligence and the Belgian VFX community (BE-VFX) #vfx #animation #vfxatlas

Amazon Web Services (AWS) returns this year as a Gold Sponsor of the Visual Effects & Animation World Atlas. I'm so grateful to the forward-looking folks who have chosen to support this research and help us move towards being a more data-driven industry! Special thanks to Félix Duchesneau and the Deadline Cloud team for their support. The 2025 Atlas is complete, and we expect to have it launched and in everyone's hands before the end of July. #vfx #animation #vfxatlas

Special thanks to Herne Hill for being a sponsor of the Visual Effects & Animation World Atlas 2025! Herne Hill CEO Dennis Berardi has been a supporter of the project right from the start, and it's wonderful to have the company onboard as an official sponsor this year. The groundswell of support for the Atlas over the past 12 months has been amazing, and the 2025 edition raises the bar in terms of both content and design. I can't wait to get it into everyone's hands later this month. #vfx #animation #vfxatlas

It took several months to clean up and analyze 55,000 entries for the 2024 edition of the Visual Effects & Animation World Atlas. Since then, I've been able to find efficiencies that have reduced this to a couple of weeks, despite the fact we're now working with over 120,000 entries. The 2025 edition of the Atlas is built around fresh data gathered just last month. By next year, I hope to get this down to a couple of days using machine learning classifiers to help with clean up. We'll be announcing a launch date for the 2025 edition soon. For now, I'm thrilled to share this preview of spreads from the new edition with you. #vfx #animation #vfxatlas

Glad to share that PFX is our latest sponsor for the 2025 Visual Effects World Atlas! PFX has had an incredible 12 months of growth, with Human/PFX, VAST by PFX, and Cine Chromatix joining them to form a pan-European VFX, Animation and Post Production platform. And, yes, with that many locations in the group, we need to have a map for them in the Atlas 🙂 Special thanks to Lukas Keclik and team for supporting this year's Atlas, which will once again be a free resource for the global VFX community. #vfx #animation #vfxatlas

Belgium is one of the countries featured in the 2025 edition of the Visual Effects & Animation World Atlas. Pieter Van Houte wrote a really interesting spotlight article unpacking the country’s unique makeup of English, French, and Flemish Dutch-speaking regions, micro-studios, and the country's diverse incentive structure. Additionally, I’m grateful to the Belgian VFX community for coming together to sponsor this year’s Atlas, including benuts, Flow Postproduction, LOOM, Made of Atoms, and MPC Paris & Liège. Special thanks to Sophie Camilla, Pieter van Houte, and Jason Brewer for making it all happen! Work on this year’s edition of the Atlas is now complete, and we will be announcing a July/August launch date in the coming days. Once again, the Atlas will be a free publication thanks to generous sponsors like our friends in Belgium. #bevfx #vfx #animation #vfxatlas

Fully-revised 2025 edition of the Visual Effects World Atlas coming in the second half of July! Highlights: ✅ Added Animation studios from around the world (who do not also do VFX). In fact, we had to change the name — it’s now the Visual Effects and Animation World Atlas 🎉 ✅ New collection of guest articles on the industry in different countries, written by local experts. ✅ First look at changes over time through the Atlas dataset: which hubs and skillsets are growing, and which are shrinking, quarter by quarter. ✅ A year’s worth of studios around the world opening, closing, merging, acquiring other studios, and rebranding. ✅ And, yes, the Atlas will be once again be FREE thanks to generous 2025 sponsors: FranceVFX, UK Screen Alliance, British Film Commission, motus VFX, Rushing PR, Visual Effects Society, Yotta Data Services Private Limited, Animation Media Creators Region Stuttgart (AMCRS), PFX and Lacus Post. #vfx #animation #vfxatlas