6 Point Harness

What 6 Point Harness does

Six Point Harness (legal name Six Point Harness, Inc.) is a privately held, full-service animation studio founded in 2003 and headquartered at 1920 Hillhurst Ave. in Los Angeles. The 51-100 employee studio produces animated content across feature films, television series, commercials, and digital platforms for entertainment networks, streaming services, film studios, and national brands. Its client roster includes Netflix, Amazon Prime, Adult Swim, HBO, ABC, Sony Pictures Animation, Apple TV+, DreamWorks, Supreme, MetLife, Taco Bell, and McDonald's, among others. The studio has been recognized with an Academy Award (for the 2020 animated short Hair Love produced for Sony Pictures Animation), an Emmy Award, and an Annie Award.

The studio operates across four primary service lines: full-service commissioned animation production, original content development and IP ownership, television animation, and commercial animation. Original IP successes include Dick Figures (over 600 million views on Mondo Media's YouTube channel), Apollo Gauntlet (sold to Adult Swim), and more recently OMG Yes! (premiered on Adult Swim and HBO Max in 2025) and The Whistle (three awards at the 2025 LA Animation Festival). Revenue is generated primarily through work-for-hire animation production contracts with studios, networks, brands, and streaming platforms (one-time license model), supplemented by licensing and royalties on owned intellectual property. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales via direct relationships with major networks, streamers, and brands.

The studio is led by co-founder Brendan Burch (CEO and Executive Producer, CalArts-trained), co-founder Greg Franklin (Creative Director), co-founder Dave Vamos (Head of Studio Operations and Executive Producer), and CFO Douglas Kay (formerly CFO of Mondo Media, CTO of LucasArts, and founding partner of ILM's Computer Graphics Department). Musa Brooker joined in 2019 and was elevated to Creative Director in 2020. The company has remained privately held with no disclosed institutional funding rounds or acquisitions.

Name

6 Point Harness

Legal name

Six Point Harness, Inc.

Website

https://sixpointharness.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Six Point Harness is an Oscar, Emmy, and Annie Award-winning animation studio founded in 2003 in Los Angeles with 51-100 employees. It produces animated content for entertainment networks, streaming platforms, and brands including Netflix, Amazon, Adult Swim, HBO, and Sony.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Animation Production Services

NAICS

Motion Picture and Video Production (51211)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812)

akta.pro primary industry

Animation Pipeline, Asset & Render Services (MPADACAM)

Keywords

• Animation production services
• Television animation
• Commercial animation
• Original content development
• Digital content production

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Animation Production Services: 6 Point Harness generates revenue through work-for-hire animation production contracts with studios, networks, brands, and streaming platforms. They produce original animated content, animated commercials, and provide animation services for existing properties.
2. Original Content Development: The studio develops and sells original intellectual property, including Dick Figures and Apollo Gauntlet, which were sold to networks and audiences.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Six Point Harness is a full-service animation production studio that produces animated content for films, television series, commercials, and digital platforms. The studio operates on work-for-hire contracts with entertainment networks, streaming platforms, and brands, and also develops and owns original animated intellectual property. The studio has won an Academy Award, Emmy Awards, and Annie Awards for its work.

Product overview

Six Point Harness is an Oscar, Emmy, and Annie Award-winning animation studio offering a comprehensive suite of animation production services. The studio operates across four core offerings: Animation Production Services (films, TV, commercials, digital projects), Original Content Development (producing and owning IP like Dick Figures and Apollo Gauntlet), Television Animation (episodic work for major networks and streamers), and Commercial Animation (national ad campaigns). The 6PH Studio Reel serves as a marketing tool showcasing recent capabilities. The company has produced Academy Award-winning work (Hair Love), original series sold to Adult Swim (Apollo Gauntlet), and continues to create both commissioned work and proprietary content.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Television Animation

Quantifiable outcome

• Dick Figures has been viewed over 600 million times on YouTube
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Mondo MediacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner6 Point Harness produced Dick Figures for Mondo Media's YouTube channel, a wildly successful adult animated digital comedy series that has been viewed over 600 million times. The studio also produced Dick Figures: The Movie through a record-setting Kickstarter campaign.
• PlaytoneminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProduced Tom Hanks' Electric City animated series for Playtone, Tom Hanks' production company.
• PsyopminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with Psyop on Metlife commercials, providing animation services.
• Adult SwimcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOngoing partnership to produce original animated series for Adult Swim including Apollo Gauntlet, OMG Yes, and Lazor Wulf.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/sixpointharness
• Xx.com/sixpointharness
• Facebookfacebook.com/sixpointharness
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/six-point-harness

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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