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YouTube is doubling the watch-hour and Shorts-view thresholds for new channels to earn ad revenue, creating a particularly difficult hurdle for indie animators.
Sarah Harper created and directs the poppy, candy-colored apocalyptic comedy, developed by Flying Bark with Lightfold and Olan Rogers.
David Spade will reprise Joe Dirt in a Fox animated sequel series that catches up with the cult comedy character 25 years later.
This week, animation and AI continued to collide in messier ways. Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull joined the jury of Higgsfield’s $1 million …
Each acclaimed film follows a young swimming champion whose life is shattered by genocide, connecting historical memory with the present.
The agreement will expand the animated franchise beyond its upcoming tenth volume while opening Viz’s original graphic novel library to adaptation.
Toby Lockerbie explains how he turned self-taught animation and VFX skills into one of YouTube’s top science channels, and why genAI has no place in his videos.
Universal has released the first trailer for ‘CoComelon: The Movie,’ the digital-native preschool juggernaut’s first feature-length theatrical release.
Months after its OpenAI Sora deal collapsed, Disney is partnering with TikTok to bring fan-made shorts featuring its characters and franchises to Disney+.
The Bollywood-inspired feature originated at Reel FX, where Lucas Koppel shepherded its development, and will be written by Jaydeep Hasrajani and Jake Goldman.
Student films from ESMA, Gobelins, and Film Academy Baden-Württemberg are among this year’s winners, who will receive their awards at TIFF.
Higgsfield says “the man who invented 3D graphics” will judge its $1 million generative AI filmmaking competition.
Shakespeare retires after six years in charge, while Michael Paxton succeeds Gladstone as executive producer of the annual Annie Awards.
Tokyo’s TIFFCOM returns October 28–30 with an expanded Japanese IP market and sessions covering anime, AI, and international co-production.
It’s always the ones you most medium expect.
Company shares have also jumped nearly 5% as it added another $1 billion to its stock-buyback plans, surely a major source of comfort to its laid-off workers.
Locanro starts tomorrow and will host the world premiere of Sun Xun’s Magic Atlas. Xun spent a decade working with 500 artists to create …
Dropout has acquired a collection of Don Hertzfeldt films, including ‘Rejected’ and ‘World of Tomorrow,’ with Annecy-winner ‘Paper Trail’ arriving September 1.
Flying Bark and Lightfold are co-developing an ambitious original property they say will span animation, comics, and games.
Chinese animator Tara Hou discusses making ‘The 70 Deadly Sins’ and how USC’s Expanded Animation program shutdown disrupted her MFA education.