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75 Oil Paintings, 30+ Artists, 4 Countries: Hisko Hulsing’s 11-Year ‘Danse Macabre’ Journey (EXCLUSIVE TRAILER)
Premiering at Annecy this month, the filmmaker’s latest short grew from music, storyboards, and years of experimentation.
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DreamWorks Vet Liron Topaz Heads To Tribeca With His Indie Short ‘Saba,’ Turning Grief Into A Visually Stunning Tale Of Love And Loss (EXCLUSIVE TRAILER)
Topaz joined us to discuss creating the film’s upside-down, gravity-defying world, telling a full story in just one shot, and returning to his indie roots.
Anime Icon Rintaro Revives A Lost Piece Of Japanese Cinema In ‘Nezumikozō Jirokichi’
Today’s Pick is a playful reconstruction of a vanished 1933 samurai film, blending benshi narration, silent cinema, and modern anime craft.
Accidents Will Happen: Animators Talk Technical Failures, Bad Clients, And Creative Collapse
Animators discuss software breakdowns, impossible deadlines, nightmare clients, creative paralysis, and productions gone sideways.
Stop-Motion Whiz Anna Mantzaris Returns To Short Filmmaking With ‘Please,’ Drops Trailer Ahead Of Zagreb Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
Stellan Skarsgård lends his voice to Mantzaris’ new felt-textured stop-motion short premiering at Animafest before heading to Annecy.
‘Under The Lake,’ A Coen-Inspired, Dialogue-Free Thriller, Gets Trailer Ahead Of Tribeca World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
Juan Carlos Mostaza’s dark animated short blends classic Hollywood tension, noir atmosphere, and faceless wire characters in a nail-biting thriller.
Tracey Laguerre On ‘I Love You, Jocelyn’: ‘It’s A Magical Girl Who Lives Inside One Of My Grandma’s Caribbean Folktales’
Laguerre discusses Caribbean storytelling and characters, the importance of WB’s Cartoon Cartoons, and leaving Google to create her magical girl pilot.
Two Statues Finally Give In To Seismic Desire in ‘Yearn’
The dialogue-free short transforms crashing marble, religious repression, and geological chaos into an unexpectedly tender romance.
Louis Clichy’s ‘Iron Boy’ Wins Special Jury Prize At Animation-Packed Cannes
Animated features and shorts were omnipresent across the Croisette this year, but only two animated titles left Cannes with awards recognition.
Momo Cao’s ‘Not Alone’ Wins First-Ever Cartoon Brew Award At ASIFA-East Festival
The long-running New York festival honored standout student, indie, and commercial films, with ‘Shapes’ winning Best in Show.
Animation Nights New York, Alamo Drafthouse Team To Bring Indie Animated Shorts To Theaters
Peter Ahern’s ‘Buzzkill’ is the first beneficiary of the initiative, and is now screening ahead of the horror feature ‘Obsession’ in theaters nationwide.
‘I’m Laughing And Enjoying The Shapes’: Lizzy Hobbs On Animating ‘Daughters Of The Late Colonel’
The British auteur discusses humor, handmade animation, and the joy of animating ahead of the film’s Cannes debut and Annecy competition screening.
Sports And Animation Keep Colliding, So Bleacher Report Is Launching A Dedicated Animation Channel
Head of creative strategy Zach McCann explains why Bleacher Report is expanding its sports animation slate as anime, memes, and athlete fandoms converge.
Netflix Is Staffing Up A ‘GenAI-Native Animation Studio’ Called INKubator
New Netflix job postings outline plans for AI-driven animated shorts, full pipeline integration, and feature-quality output.
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation Bosses Re-Commit To Theatrical Animation Distribution
After fumbling Looney Tunes features ‘The Day The Earth Blew Up’ and ‘Coyote vs. Acme,’ studio executives are looking to course correct.
How The Brothers Behind ‘Superman: Awakens’ Launched An Original Sci-Fi Universe With ‘Sjor’ Using Unreal Engine 5
Antonis and Stavros Fylladitis discuss mythology, creating an original indie universe, and shaking the stigma around game engine-produced shorts.
Honami Yano’s Hand-Painted Short ‘Eri’ Drops Trailer Ahead Of Cannes World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
The ‘A Bite of Bone’ director returns with a queer unrequited love story on a dairy farm that will debut in Directors’ Fortnight, eligible for the Queer Palm.
YouTube Wrongly Flagged ‘Tiny Grandma’ As AI And Created A Viral Stop-Motion Phenomenon (EXCLUSIVE)
After the YouTube takedown, Philly’s Marie Hart and Peter Heacock stepped in front of the lens alongside their puppet and watched tens of millions tune in.
Oscar-Nominated Iranian Filmmaker Yegane Moghaddam Announces Next Short, Shares Teaser (EXCLUSIVE)
The ‘Our Uniform’ director shares a first look at ‘Our Body Language,’ a dialogue-free project combining clay and 2D animation.
Nathan Little Hand-Animated Sydney the Song Cat For Four Years, Then YouTube Demonitized It As ‘Inauthentic Content’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The industry vet says years of original 2D work was swept into a vague system with little explanation from a truly inauthentic customer service system.