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Picking This Year’s Animated Feature, Animated Short, And VFX Academy Award Winners
While two of the categories feel like locks this year, the animated short race is still relatively open.
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New ‘Demon Slayer’ Film Finishes Fourth At U.S. Box Office With $10.1M Haul
Meanwhile, ‘Puss in Boots’ managed another $7.4 million globally as it moves closer to the $500M milestone.
SVA’s Computer Arts Community Shines At SIGGRAPH 2025
SVA’s MFA Computer Arts program made a strong impact at SIGGRAPH 2025, with student volunteers, alumni, and faculty contributing throughout the conference.
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Gets First Trailer Ahead Of August Release
‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’ director Jeff Rowe is directing. Montreal’s Mikros animation and Vacounver’s Cinesite are animating.
‘She Creates Change’ Animated Shorts Aim To Reach World’s 432 Million Adolescent Girls
Nexus Studios is producing six animated shorts promoting gender equality by telling the stories of young women from around the world.
Crafting A Visual Style In A Short Film: This Year’s Oscar Nominees Tell Us How They Did It
See the art that helped define the visual styles of this year’s five Oscar-nominated animated shorts.
The Art Of The Acquisition: Moonbug Managing Director Andy Yeatman On What His Company Looks For In An IP
Yeatman also offered some sound advice for creators looking to grow their properties through new partnerships.
Creating The Year’s Most Memorable Oscar-Nominated Characters: Count Volpe, Wolf, Mei, Captain Crow, And Connie
This year’s Oscar-nominated filmmakers share behind-the-scenes details of how they created memorable characters and brought their performances to life.
GKIDS Snags U.S. Distribution Rights To ‘Ernest & Celestine’ Sequel
The film will get its U.S. premiere tomorrow night as the opening film of the New York International Children’s Film Festival.
Toonz Media Group Launches Feature Film Division With An Eye On The Theatrical Marketplace
Toonz is co-producing ‘Little Emma’ with China’s Gold Valley Films and ‘The Canterville Ghost’ with Space Age Films and Align Pictures.
Keep Festive, A New Anti-Harassment And Discrimination Organization, Will Host A Talk At Austria’s Tricky Women Festival
On March 10, attendees will learn about the advocacy group #we_do!, Austria’s contact and counseling center for filmmakers.
St. Louis Gets New Animation Studio As ‘Hair Love’ Producer Carl Reed Launches Composition Media
The newly-launched studio already has two animated features and a kids’ tv series in the works.
Burny Mattinson, Disney Legend And The Company’s Longest-Employed Worker, Dies At 87
Beginning his career as a messenger boy at Disney, Mattinson became an integral member of Disney Animation’s creative team for the better part of 70 years.
U.S. Copyright Office Says AI-Generated Images Do Not Qualify For Copyright Protection
According to the office, providing text prompts is not sufficient enough input to qualify images as “the product of human authorship.”
Animation Coming To Netflix, Disney+, Criterion, Hulu, And More In March 2023
Titles set to hit major platforms in March include ‘Agent Elvis,’ ‘The Magician’s Elephant,’ ‘Kiff,’ ‘Boy and the World,’ and ‘Inu-Oh.’
Netflix Unveils ‘Pokémon Concierge’ Stop-Motion Series With First Teaser
The series is a collaboration between Netflix, The Pokémon Company, and Japanese stop-motion producers Dwarf.
Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Paramount For An “Illicit Conspiracy” To Circumvent $500M ‘South Park’ Deal
WBD says Paramount used “verbal trickery” to circumvent the terms of their 2019 agreement.
‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Dropped By Syndicate After Posting Racist Youtube Rant
Countless media outlets have also dropped ‘Dilbert’ from their pages following Adams’s outburst.
Stop Motion Rules At 50th Annie Awards As ‘Pinocchio’ And ‘Marcel The Shell With Shoes On’ Top Winner’s List – Analysis
Netflix led all companies with 11 wins across 32 categories, while Disney floundered.
‘My Sunny Maad,’ ‘Granny’s Sexual Life’ Score French Academy César Awards
Visual effects supervisor Laurens Ehrmann also won a César for his work on ‘Notre Dame on Fire.’
The Animation That Changed Me: Bruce Smith On ‘One Hundred And One Dalmatians’
“My first impressions were that animation was a magical medium. I wished that I could do something like that when I got older,” says Smith.
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