Increasing interest in developing reliable and reproducible models to study angiogenesis has emerged due to recent advances in the treatment of eye disease with pathologic angiogenesis. This review provides a summary of the principal ocular animal models for angiogenesis. Models of anterior segment neovascularization include the corneal micropocket assay, used to study the influence of specific molecules/proteins in angiogenesis, and corneal chemical and suture induced injury, which mimic more closely the complex nature of the human disease. Angiogenesis models of the posterior segment include the well-known laser-induced injury of the choroid/Bruch's membrane, as well as the oxygen induced retinopathy and models of injections of pro-angiogenic/inflammatory molecules. In addition, knockout or knock-in transgenic mice provide powerful tools in studying the role of specific proteins in angiogenesis.