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Based out of Los Angeles and New York, Nickelodeon Animation is home to the world’s greatest artistic talents. We’ve got top-notch artists, storytellers, writers, production teams, voice actors and every other kind of cartoon expert housed in our campuses of creativity! How do we make the best animated programs around? We build the greatest creative spaces in the industry, bring in the best animation talent in town and make sure to supply plenty of bagels and coffee! From our early days with Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats, and Doug to our current era of Spongebob, The Loud House, and The Casagrandes- Nick Animation has been hard at work for almost 30 years making the world’s best cartoons for every kid on the block! We are a creator-driven powerhouse that is excited to be working with and fostering the ideas of the most ingenious artisans that the animation industry has to offer. A place designed by our artists for our artists, the Nick Animation Studio on both coasts is the physical embodiment of all things that make Nickelodeon so spectacular! We’re always looking for the best of the best talent to make our animated dreams into a reality, so check out at nickanimation.com/jobs and join us!

Founded in 2005 just outside Portland, Oregon, LAIKA has produced five films: Missing Link (2019), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), The Boxtrolls (2014), ParaNorman (2012) and Coraline (2009). All were nominated for the Academy Award® for Outstanding Animated Feature. Kubo and the Two Strings won the BAFTA® Award for Best Animated Film and received an additional Oscar® nomination for Visual Effects. Missing Link was awarded the Golden Globe® for Best Animated Film. LAIKA was awarded a Scientific and Technology Oscar® in 2016 for its innovation in 3D printing. LAIKA is currently in production on its next animated film Wildwood. The studio is developing the animated feature films The Night Gardener, from an original idea by Bill Dubuque, creator of the hit series Ozark, and Piranesi, based on the NYT bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke with a screenplay to be written by Dave Kajganich. LAIKA’s Live Action subsidiary has a range of projects in development including feature films based on the action thriller novel Seventeen by screenwriter John Brownlow; an original script Crumble, written and directed by Brian Duffield (Spontaneous) with Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-verse films) producing, and an original project from Oscar®-nominated screenwriter Jon Spaihts (Dune). Captain Marvel filmmakers Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck will write and direct LAIKA’s live action adaptation of #1 New York Times bestselling author Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new novel Atmosphere.