Best Animation Studios in Barcelona (2026)

Introduction

Barcelona has a broad animation scene, with motion design studios that work for global tech and fashion brands, producers of children’s series and features, and one of the best-known character design studios in film. The 10 studios below were chosen for recent work, the strength of their client and broadcaster rosters, and evidence of an active studio in the city.

Catalonia has spent the last few years building up its animation sector. Variety described it in 2024 as one of Europe’s fastest growing animation hubs, and “Robot Dreams”, backed by Barcelona’s Arcadia Motion Pictures, was nominated for an Oscar. International studios have followed: Dublin’s Giant Animation opened its first office outside Ireland in Barcelona in February 2025, citing Spain’s tax rebates for production work. On the commercial side, the city’s motion studios supply brand films, explainers and broadcast identities to clients from 3Cat to Samsung.

Every studio here has a Barcelona studio in 2026. The list runs in no fixed order of merit, because the right partner depends on whether you need a 30-second product film, a TV series or character work for a feature. VFX specialists are covered on a separate page.

The best animation studios in Barcelona

1. Clim Studio

Independent · Guinardó · studioclim.com

Clim Studio has worked in animation and design since 2011 and describes itself as a design-led motion house. It covers 2D and CG animation, product films, brand campaigns and motion systems, with a core team in Barcelona and freelance specialists added per project. Its work has been featured several times in Behance’s curated galleries, including Best of Behance.

The client list is international: Samsung (screensaver animations for Galaxy devices), Amazon, Mr Porter product films, Logitech brand mascots, a T-Mobile 5G campaign and 2D motion work for Spotify. The studio works remotely with clients across time zones, which suits brands that are not based in Spain.

2. Mordisco Studio

Independent · Eixample (Sant Antoni) · mordisco.studio

Mordisco is a multidisciplinary audiovisual studio that combines design and animation, working in 2D, 3D, stop motion and mixed media. It handles projects from concept through to final production, and it is listed in the Barcelona Catalunya Film Commission’s company directory.

Much of its recent work is for Catalan broadcasters and institutions: the 3Cat identity for Zona Zàping (2025), animation for the Oak Stories and 3Cat documentary “Montserrat Mil·lenari” (2025), a National Geographic and Andorra Turisme documentary (2026), and a hero animation for This is Barcelona’s art season site (2026). Earlier clients include Estrella Damm, Moritz and the Generalitat de Catalunya, and the studio also designs film credits.

3. Mago Production

Independent · Gràcia · magoproduction.com

Mago Production is a Barcelona audiovisual producer with divisions for animation, live action, sound and dubbing, and events. Its animation slate runs from preschool series to adult features, which makes it one of the broader animation producers in the city.

Its projects include “The Light of Aisha”, a 3D animated family feature directed by Shadi Adib that opened in Spain in 2025 with Filmax handling sales, and the 2D series “Belzebubs”, “Limbo Ville” and “San Misterio”. “Malica”, a 2D feature for young adults, and the preschool series “Lily&Kyle” are also on its slate.

4. Pikkukala

Independent, with studios in Helsinki and Barcelona · Barcelona · pikkukala.com

Pikkukala makes original animation and co-productions from studios in Helsinki and Barcelona, and also develops games and interactive entertainment. It offers animation production services to partners as well as developing its own shows.

Its series “Samuel” arrived on Netflix in 2025 and was a summer pick in El País. “Who Will Comfort Toffle?” won at the Macau International Children’s Film Festival in July 2025, and “Taste Buddies” was selected for Animation Production Days the same year. “Royals Next Door” is another of its titles.

5. Giant Animation

Barcelona studio of Dublin’s Giant Animation · Barcelona · giant.ie

Giant opened its Barcelona office in February 2025, its first outside Ireland, to mark its 15th anniversary. Production is split between Dublin and Barcelona, and the studio has said it will hire artists in both countries and use Spain’s tax rebates for international production work.

Giant’s best-known recent credit is “The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish!” for Nickelodeon and Netflix. Its own IP includes “Milo”, its first computer-animated family feature, and the series “Rachel’s Pet Parlour”, which was due to enter pre-production in 2026. Its Barcelona team takes on work-for-hire and co-productions for television and film.

6. Grangel Studio

Independent · Sants · grangelstudio.com

Grangel Studio, run by brothers Carlos and Jordi Grangel, has designed characters for feature animation for 40 years from a small studio on Rambla de Badal. It has worked on 32 films, and its designs include Alex the lion in “Madagascar”, the characters of Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride”, and Pinocchio and Geppetto for Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio”, which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2023.

Other credits include “Kung Fu Panda”, “How to Train Your Dragon” and “Shark Tale”, and the studio designed FC Barcelona’s mascot, CAT. Casa Seat held a 40-year retrospective of its work in summer 2025. The studio takes on at most two large productions a year, so it is best approached early in development.

7. Mimetico

Independent · Eixample · mimeti.co

Mimetico is a 2D and 3D animation studio focused on explainer, corporate, promotional and product videos, plus motion graphics such as animated icons and type. It has more than ten years of experience and can run a project from script to delivery or take on only the stages a client needs.

Clients include Santander, Mango, HP, Rakuten and Bioiberica. Recent projects include explainers for the Diputació de Barcelona and Axazure and a set of corporate and event videos for Inke. It suits companies that need clear, well-made explainers rather than broadcast campaigns.

8. Vasava

Independent · Eixample · vasava.es

Vasava is an independent design and branding studio that has worked from Barcelona since 1997, with motion graphics, animation, CGI and illustration as a core part of its offer. Its animation work tends to sit inside larger brand systems, which helps when a client needs identity and motion designed together.

Recent work includes the UEFA Women’s Champions League (2026), the UEFA Champions League (2024) and a run of playlist identities for Spotify between 2023 and 2025, including Techno Bunker and Electro Corridos. It also rebranded Atlético de Madrid in 2024 and built Adobe’s booth at OFFF 2024.

9. Peekaboo Animation

Independent · Barcelona · peekabooanimation.com

Peekaboo Animation creates, writes, produces and finances children’s animation for television and digital platforms. It also handles international sales of its own and partners’ catalogues, and offers consultancy, executive production and work-for-hire.

Its shows include “The Triplets”, “Wild Kat”, “Listen to Your Body” and “Audrey’s Shelter”. The company was named Producer of the Year at the Cartoon Tributes during Cartoon Forum in Toulouse in 2022.

10. Tigrelab

Independent · Poblenou · tigrelab.com

Tigrelab is a Poblenou creative studio, directed by Federico Gonzalez, Javier Pinto and Mathieu Felix, that makes animated content and immersive experiences for brands, museums and events. Its work covers 2D and 3D animation, stop motion, CGI, video mapping and real-time graphics.

Projects include video mapping, a light show and keynote visuals for CUPRA’s headquarters, multimedia visuals for Pronovias, projection mapping for Bentley, a TV commercial for Winamax and opening titles for the series “Com Si Fos Ahir”. It suits briefs where animation has to work on a building, a stage or an installation as well as on screen.

What to look for in a Barcelona animation studio

Start with the type of work. Barcelona’s studios split broadly into motion design houses that make brand films and explainers, producers that develop and finance series and features, and specialists such as Grangel in character design. A studio built for 52-episode series runs a different pipeline from one that turns around a product launch film in six weeks, and it will price accordingly.

Ask about the team. Many motion studios here run a small core team and add freelance animators, modellers and compositors per project, which is a sensible model but makes it worth asking who will direct and who will animate. For series work, check which stages happen in Barcelona and which are shared with partner studios elsewhere, as Giant does with Dublin and Pikkukala with Helsinki.

Check rights and funding early. Producers such as Mago and Peekaboo often co-produce, sell rights internationally and draw on Catalan and Spanish support schemes, so be clear about who owns the IP and which territories each party controls. For commissioned brand work, agree the usage period, formats and source-file handover in the contract.

Finally, look at how the studio runs reviews. Animation goes through many rounds, from script and storyboard to animatic, style frames, blocking and final renders, and each round produces large files and detailed notes. Studios with a clear way to share work in progress, collect frame-specific feedback and track what has been addressed tend to keep schedules intact.

How Fabric helps animation teams

Fabric gives an animation studio one workspace for its files, client feedback and production knowledge, with AI search across all of it. The setup for motion design teams suits studios running several brand projects at once, with scripts, boards, style frames and renders kept together per client.

Renders, project files and reference footage sit in Fabric’s cloud drive, which streams files on demand so they take no local disk space, and heavy video opens without a full download. There is more on handling large outputs in why your rendering files need a home. Search works by meaning across documents, images and transcribed recordings, and colour search finds frames by shade. When an art director wants references in a similar style, similar search finds images with related composition, colour and subject.

For early development, a canvas works as a moodboard or storyboard wall and embeds Figma, YouTube and Vimeo. A Kanban board turns a folder into a pipeline whose cards are the shots or deliverables themselves.

For review rounds, the studio shares an animatic or cut with the client as a commenter. Through that shared link, without creating an account, the client can leave timestamped comments on video and audio, draw on a video frame or a style frame and attach a note to the drawing, and the team marks each comment completed as it is addressed. On Team plans, Fabric can also maintain a page for each client from meetings, Slack and the workspace, covering decisions, deliverables and open items.

Client pages are included on Team plans. See plans for teams.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best animation studio in Barcelona?

There is no single answer, since it depends on the project. For brand motion work, Clim Studio and Mordisco Studio have strong recent portfolios. For series and features, Mago Production, Pikkukala and Giant Animation all have active slates, and Grangel Studio is the city’s best-known name in feature character design.

Which Barcelona studios produce animated series and films?

Mago Production (“The Light of Aisha”, “Belzebubs”), Pikkukala (“Samuel”), Peekaboo Animation (“The Triplets”) and Giant Animation, whose Barcelona studio shares production with Dublin, all work on series or features. Grangel Studio designs characters for features made by other studios.

Why have international animation studios opened in Barcelona?

Giant Animation said its 2025 Barcelona opening was partly to use Spain’s tax rebates for international production work and to hire artists in both Ireland and Spain. Catalonia also supports local producers, and the region’s animation output has grown over the past few years.

Do Barcelona animation studios also handle VFX?

Some studios on this list add compositing or CG integration to their animation work, but dedicated visual effects houses are covered separately in the best VFX studios in Barcelona. For projects that mix live action and heavy effects, it often makes sense to pair an animation studio with a VFX specialist.

How long does an animated brand film take in Barcelona?

It depends on length, style and the number of review rounds. Motion studios typically work through script, storyboard, style frames, animatic and final animation, and each stage needs client sign-off. Ask for a schedule that shows each review point, and agree how feedback will be collected before production starts.

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