Studios

Founded 2014 · Shanghai

AHA Entertainment is a Shanghai IP development and production company founded in November 2014 by producer Zou Shasha, with subsidiaries in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Positioning itself as a cross-media IP operator rather than an in-house animation studio, it invested in 2017 in director He Xiaofeng's Sharefun Studio (Xiaofeng Yinghua), and the two jointly created Scissor Seven, a comedy about an amnesiac barber-assassin. The series entered the main competition selection at Annecy in 2018, streams internationally as a Netflix Original, and reached its fifth season in 2024, while AHA extends the franchise into games, music, licensing, and other formats.

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Founded 2017 · Beijing

B.CMAY PICTURES, legally Beijing Shimei Jingdian Pictures, was incorporated in April 2017 around the 2D team that had just made season 1 of The King's Avatar. The Shimei name traces back to Chongqing studios that grew out of a Sichuan Fine Arts Institute training program in the mid 2000s, and the company still runs Beijing and Chongqing as twin bases with branches in Hangzhou, Xi'an, Chengdu, and Changsha. For Tencent it produced the three seasons of Mo Dao Zu Shi (2018-2021), winner of a Golden Dragon Award for best serial animation, and it maintains a staff of several hundred 2D specialists.

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Founded 2017 · Guangzhou, China

Big Firebird Cultural Media is a Guangzhou 2D animation studio founded in June 2017 by director Wei Tianxing, growing out of the Kaojiji Animation team formed in 2013. Known for fluid hand-drawn action, it has animated The Outcast Season 3, Spare Me, Great Lord!, Demon Spirit Seed Manual, Hero Return, and Super Cube, produced three of the acclaimed chapter animations for the game Black Myth: Wukong, and provided support work on Japanese productions such as Chainsaw Man. On June 22, 2026, Tencent Video, Tencent Games, and Neople announced the 2D donghua DNF, adapted from Dungeon & Fighter, with Big Firebird handling animation production.

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Founded 2015 · Beijing

Coloroom Pictures is the animation label Enlight Media launched in Beijing in October 2015, with Yi Qiao as its first president, to invest in, produce, and distribute Chinese animated features. Instead of building a single studio, it took stakes in about twenty animation teams, including Ne Zha director Jiaozi's Coco Cartoon. Its releases include Big Fish and Begonia (2016), Dahufa (2017), Ne Zha (2019), which set the Chinese animation box office record, Jiang Ziya (2020), and Deep Sea (2023, with October Media). Through the entity Beijing Caitiaowu Technology it is among the credited production companies of Ne Zha 2 (2025), the highest grossing animated film worldwide.

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Founded 2013 · Hangzhou, China

D.Rock-Art, formally Hangzhou Heiyan (Blackrock) Network Technology, is a Hangzhou based digital content company founded in 2013 by Ni Zhenjie. It spans game development, CG production, virtual characters, and original 3D animation, and is known for real time rendering pipelines built on Unreal Engine, work that earned it an Epic MegaGrant. Its debut donghua Knights on Debris (2020), co-produced with Tencent Penguin Pictures, established a cinematic sci-fi style; its adaptation of the horror cultivation novel Dao of the Bizarre Immortal, titled Huo Wang, is due on Tencent Video in 2026.

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Founded 2006 · Shanghai

Shanghai Foch Film and TV Culture Investment, established in March 2006 and led by founder and CEO Yuan Feng, is one of the main long-form animation contractors for Tencent Video. It produced season 1 of Fights Break Sphere, the first animated take on Battle Through the Heavens, and now runs several annual series at once, including Perfect World and Stellar Transformations, alongside Full-Time Magister and Fighter of the Destiny. The company works across 2D and 3D pipelines and licenses its original copyrights, and its team's credits reach back to the 2001 band series Music Up.

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Founded 2013 · Shanghai

Haoliners Animation League is a Shanghai 2D studio founded in 2013 by director Li Haoling and wholly acquired by bilibili in January 2021. One of China's most prolific web animation producers, it is behind Fox Spirit Matchmaker, The Outcast, Spiritpact, The Daily Life of the Immortal King, and the Heaven Official's Blessing series, and it co-produced the anthology film Flavors of Youth with Japan's CoMix Wave Films. The studio has long worked across the China-Japan industry boundary through its Japanese arm Emon, and founder Li Haoling also created Link Click, produced at partner company Studio LAN.

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Founded 2013 · Beijing

Light Chaser Animation is a Beijing 3DCG feature film studio founded in March 2013 by Tudou founder Gary Wang together with Yu Zhou, now its president. After early family films such as Little Door Gods and Cats and Peachtopia, it shifted to mythology and history driven features: the White Snake trilogy, the New Gods series with Nezha Reborn and Yang Jian, and Chang An (2023), a Tang dynasty poetry film that grossed about 1.8 billion yuan. The studio keeps story development, asset production, and rendering in house and targets roughly one theatrical release per year.

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Founded 2000 · Shanghai

Shanghai Motion Magic Digital Entertainment, founded in 2000, is a CG production house within the state-owned Shanghai Media Group family. It spent its first decades on broadcast packaging, commercials, and outsourced work, including the CG animation for the British series Chuggington. Since 2017 it has become a key 3D donghua contractor for Tencent Video and Yuewen: it animates Battle Through the Heavens from the second season through the ongoing annual seasons, made Martial Universe, and produces The Great Ruler annual series for iQiyi. Its annual-series output has made it one of the highest volume 3D adaptation studios in China.

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Founded 1999 · Beijing

October Media, the Beijing studio of director Tian Xiaopeng, dates its founding to 1999, making it one of China's earliest 3D animation companies. After years of commercial CG work it produced Monkey King: Hero Is Back (2015), whose 956 million yuan gross reset expectations for domestic animated features and pulled new investment into the sector, including a stake in October taken by Enlight Media's Coloroom. Its second feature, Deep Sea (2023), spent around seven years developing a particle ink technique that brings ink-wash color into 3DCG; former Coloroom president Yi Qiao joined the company and produced the film.

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Founded 2016 · Quzhou

Samsara Animation Studio, the English credit of Liudao Wuyu, literally six paths, no fish, is the small 2D studio that director Lin Hun registered in 2016 in his hometown of Quzhou, Zhejiang. Its sole franchise, Fog Hill of Five Elements, co-produced with Nice Boat Animation and streamed on bilibili from 2020, is known for ink-wash-inflected color and fast hand-drawn action, made by a core team of about six people with Lin Hun credited in more than a dozen roles, from direction to sound. The first arc debuted to a Douban rating around 9, and a second season arc followed.

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Founded 2015 · Shenzhen

Studio LAN, or LAN Yinghua, is a 2D animation company registered in Shenzhen in January 2015 with a second production unit in Guangzhou. It is the studio most closely tied to director Li Haoling outside Haoliners: it animated his 2016 series To Be Hero and produces Link Click, the bilibili time-bending suspense series he created, one of the few donghua broadcast on Japanese television and simulcast internationally. LAN was also one of three studios animating To Be Hero X (2025), the BeDream, bilibili, and Aniplex co-production, and its earlier credits include shorts such as Mantou Diary.

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Founded 2019 · Beijing

Wan Wei Mao Animation, operating through Wanwei Renhe (Beijing) Technology, is a Beijing 3D studio organized in 2019 by director Wang Yuren and IP planner Chen Min. Its flagship is A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, bilibili's cultivation series co-produced with Original Force, which pairs motion capture and Unreal Engine rendering with a deliberately grounded tone. It also made the bilibili series Shen Mu (God's Tomb) and iQiyi's Zi Chuan, and holds a development slate of web novel adaptations including Ever Night and Yang Shen. The studio has no official English name; Wan Wei Mao, literally World Wide Cat, is the common romanization.

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Founded 2005 · Hangzhou

Hangzhou Xuanji Technology, credited internationally as Sparkly Key Animation Studio, is a 3DCG series specialist founded in late 2005 by director Shen Leping. Its original brand Qin's Moon (The Legend of Qin), running since 2007, was an early landmark of Chinese 3D wuxia animation and spawned the spinoff Nine Songs of the Moving Heavens; another original, Wu Geng Ji, adapts a Hong Kong comic. As a commissioned studio for Tencent Video it produces the Soul Land annual series, one of the platform's most streamed donghua, along with Swallowed Star and Legend of Exorcism. It is headquartered in Hangzhou with additional studios in Qingdao and Shanghai.

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Founded 2015 · Wuhan

YHKT Entertainment, full name Wuhan Yihua Kaitian Culture Communication, is a Wuhan 3D studio founded in May 2015 by Ruan Rui, Chen Wei, and Dong Xiangbo. Unusually for Chinese 3D houses, it concentrates on original science fiction rather than novel-adaptation contract work: its post-apocalyptic series Ling Cage: Incarnation (2019) passed 670 million views on bilibili and collected more than ten industry awards, and it co-produced the 2022 animated adaptation of Liu Cixin's Three-Body with bilibili. The company grew from an eight-person founding team to a staff of nearly five hundred and is building a digital content production base in Wuhan.

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