If you have created, designed, produced and edited an animation by yourself, for your own private purposes, then you own the copyright.
However, if a business or a professional has hired you to make an animation for them, then they own the copyright, unless stated otherwise.
While this seems simple enough to understand and follow, you would be surprised by the volume of cases out there that debate on which idea came from whom (i.e. the animator or the client) and who owns which component of the animation, etc.
A professional animation studio will clarify these factors – in a mutually-agreed and signed document- before even accepting a project, let alone working on it.
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