Founded by Dave Koch in 1997, the Big Cartoon DataBase brings together decades of animation history, from the earliest theatrical shorts to television cartoons and feature films. Explore the archive and rediscover the cartoons and creators you love.
The Big Cartoon DataBase
The animation archive
Explore more than 165,000 animated shorts, feature films and television cartoons in the Big Cartoon DataBase. Discover release dates, stories, cast and crew credits, and the people and studios behind the cartoons.
- 165,043Cartoons
- 8,615Studios and series
- 163,400Animators, cast and crew
Browse Cartoons by studio
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20th Century Fox
4 series, 1,709 cartoons -
Columbia Pictures
8 series, 1,669 cartoons -
Filmation Associates
5 series, 1,656 cartoons -
Hanna-Barbera Studios
11 series, 7,752 cartoons -
MGM
3 series, 559 cartoons -
Other Studios
26 series, 136,885 cartoons -
Paramount Pictures
7 series, 2,005 cartoons -
Universal Studios
7 series, 1,627 cartoons -
Walt Disney Studios
6 series, 6,813 cartoons -
Warner Bros.
8 series, 5,166 cartoons
From the archive
Felidae (1994)
This noir-ish murder mystery follows the attempts of inquisitive tomcat Francis to find out who is behind the spate of savage murders blighting the feline community in his new neighborhood. The twists and turns include a feline suicide cult, a mad animal experimentor, Francis' own surreal nightmares and the mysterious prophet Felidae.
The people behind the cartoons
Every credit is linked. Pick a name to see everything that person directed, animated, wrote or voiced.
- Robert Alvarez 3,556 credits
- Kaneta Kimotsuki 3,494 credits
- Susan Blu 3,245 credits
- Grey DeLisle 2,638 credits
- Carl Urbano 2,530 credits
- Kathleen Barr 2,453 credits
- Seiji Matsuoka 2,222 credits
- Julie Lemieux 2,194 credits
- Margaret Nichols 2,083 credits
- Ryohei Suzuki 2,024 credits
- Shigeru Chiba 1,996 credits
- Hiroshi Ishihara 1,863 credits
Explore by decade
From the first experiments of the 1890s through the golden age of theatrical shorts to the television era and beyond.