Clearwater Studios

Clearwater Partners II LLC (doing business as Clearwater Studios) is a production company founded by Terry Ward and based in Clearwater, Florida, United States. The company works as a mostly-spin-off from Glass Ball Productions.

The company was founded by Terry Ward in August 2009 as Clearwater Animation after leaving Glass Ball Productions. The company specializes in Motion Pictures, Television Production, and Animation (Traditional, Flash, and CGI).

In 2017, the company went defunct due to the inactivity around the company. Many people believed that the company went defunct because due to recent changes and their website being shut-down as well as it's social media pages being deleted. However, in 2018, a year after Clearwater went defunct, Terry Ward bought the company back and relaunched it.

On June 24th, 2019, S1 Media purchased Clearwater Animation and its divisions for $23 million, and the company became a join-venture between Terry Ward and S1 Media. The studios were restructured two months later and the company was renamed Clearwater Studios. Some of their studios were sold off to other companies, dissolved into Clearwater’s studios, or went independent over the course of the next two years, with DevilFish being the only division to have its name remain intact and still used to this day after its merger into its Los Angeles studio.

They operate out of studios in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, China and Russia.