New York’s French Animation Festival Animation First Reveals Exciting 2025 Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)
The event includes the U.S. premiere of Claude Barras’s ‘Savages’ and the East Coast premiere of Michel Hazanavicius’s ‘The Most Precious of Cargoes.’
The event includes the U.S. premiere of Claude Barras’s ‘Savages’ and the East Coast premiere of Michel Hazanavicius’s ‘The Most Precious of Cargoes.’
The dialogue-free $3.7 million European co-production bested big-studio American movies with budgets that are orders of magnitude greater,
From studio visits to guest speakers and an annual career fair, SVA provides a diverse array of opportunities for students to develop their professional voice in order to succeed.
Directed by New York-based digital artist Tim Mearini, “Scumlord” is the debut single from an upcoming album from hip hop DJ Blockhead.
The seventh Animation First features several additions including its first ever juried competition for Francophone Shorts.
SVA students and alumni discuss extracurricular activities that helped to enrich their educational experience at the school.
This marks the fourth time that the NYFCC has rewarded Hayao Miyazaki with its animation honor.
It’s also the first New York studio to agree to a union contract since the 1980s.
Three SVA Alumni Scholarship Award winners discuss their work and how it was influenced by their time at the school.
Nakamura worked with composer Zak Engel to create this story of a father watching his son grow into a life of his own.
Baumane’s work touches on sex, gender, relationships, and mental health with a fierce sense of humor and refreshing bluntness.
SVA alumni discuss life after graduation, and why so many have returned to teach at their alma mater.
Timed perfectly for NYCC, Crunchyroll took over screens in Times Square to get fans hyped for the film’s November 1 U.S. release.
The workers are the second N.Y.-based group to do so, after Titmouse workers voted to unionize in January of this year.
The exhibit will run at MoMA from December 11, 2022 through April 16, 2023.
“Laika: Life in Stop Motion” will open at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY on September 1, 2022.
“We have so much ability to love, but our ability to hate comes from the same place,” Baumane learned while researching the film.
The companies have worked alongside one another on the series “Genius: Aretha” and “P-Valley.”
Titmouse workers are the first members of the NYC animation industry to join a union in over three decades.
A round-up of upcoming animation events on the continent (two of which are virtual).
“Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts” opens at the New York museum on December 10.
In his long career, Duga storyboarded on “Frosty the Snowman,” designed Twinkie the Kid, co-founded and ran the studio Polestar, and taught for decades at the School of Visual Arts.
Leib created animation for The New York Times and films including “American Splendor” and “American Ultra.”
In his long career, Bell animated for prominent studios including Terrytoons, Hubley Studios, Perpetual Motion Pictures, and J.J. Sedelmaier Productions.
Keane’s newly created post is executive vice president of production and operations.
Crane’s epic career ran from Terrytoons in the 1950s to MTV in the 1990s and beyond, spanning series, commercials, and features.
A playful riff on the experience of quarantine that combines Tex Avery and street art.
A mainstay of the East Coast animation scene, Tony Eastman worked on everything from “Doug” to “Beavis & Butt-head.”
As the school launches new diversity initiatives, alumni share their experiences tackling social and political issues in their work.
It isn’t just Netflix shows converted to vertical.
“In some ways, being remote on a large production has probably protected me by having fewer daily interactions and distractions,” says Nathan Love’s Joe Burrascano.
The piece, which uses a hybrid of 2d and 3d, is ostensibly an advertisement for Cyramza, but it takes an indirect approach with symbolism that works on multiple levels.
Large swathes of the U.S. exhibition sector are intending to reopen over the coming month, but will anyone show up?
The company’s animation studio has produced a segment of Netflix’s “Love, Death & Robots,” Disney’s “101 Dalmatian Street,” and music videos for Gorillaz
A pop-up art exhibit celebrating 90 years of Mickey Mouse will open in Manhattan next week.
Is the New York Comic Con lacking in animation events? Check out this weekend’s ANNY festival and conference in Manhattan.
Phil Tippett’s visual effects mastery will be celebrated at the Museum of Modern Art.
A wide-ranging group of animation artists will present at Pictoplasma NYC in November.