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2014 Animated Feature Preview

From mainstream releases to independent foreign productions, we've got a guide to the animated feature releases that you can look forward to in 2014.

Crowdfund Fridays

Help Kickstart The Preschool Series “Kit ^n^ Kate”

The subject of today’s Crowdfund Friday is Kit ^n^ Kate, a new animated series concept from Toonbox Animation Studios and written by …

Experimental

It’s Official: Glen Keane Joins Motorola to Direct Interactive Hand-Drawn Short Film

We first announced last week that Glen Keane may be working on a project for Google-owned Motorola. Well, they officially announced today …

Animators

Prepare for the Mary Blair Invasion

Thirty-five years after her death, the iconic animation artist Mary Blair is getting artistic representation.

Award Season Focus

“Frozen” Story Head Paul Briggs Talks About Truth in Storytelling

The Disney studio has famously attempted to adapt Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen as far back as the 1940s. However, it …

CGI

New Markets for Animators: Crime Re-enactment Films

Here's a new and potentially lucrative market for animators: recreating alleged crimes with computer animation.

Award Season Focus

Director Luiz Bolognesi on “Rio 2096,” An Animated Feature About Love and Revolution

Produced in Brazil for just $2.5 million by first-time animation director Luiz Bolognesi, Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury is among the …

Events

See “Searle in America” in San Francisco

British illustrator Ronald Searle (1920-2011) has had an immeasurable influence on the animation industry. It’s hard to quantify his …

Disney

“Christmas in Bugville” by Disney Legend Art Riley [UPDATED]

When I visited the Tyrus Wong exhibit at the Walt Disney Family Museum a couple months ago, one of the most gorgeous Bambi background …

Artist of the Day

Stef Choi is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. She creates illustrations, videos and other multimedia projects as part of her collaborative enterprise Belly & Bones that she runs with Tony Candelaria.

Disney

“Walt”: The Disney Biopic That Never Was

IN THE EARLY 1980S, CARDON WALKER JR. AND I produced the "Disney Family Album" series for The Disney Channel. It was one of the very first series funded by the Channel, and the first to get any kind of critical acclaim thanks to our nomination for a Cable Ace Award for Best Documentary Series. But we had an even bigger ambition, and that was to land the Great White Whale of Disney myths, the life story of Walt himself.

Interactive

“Niko and the Sword of Light” Walks the Line Between Comic Book and Animation

Is "Niko and the Sword of Light" an animated comic book or an animated film inside of an app? This was the question that I continued to ask myself as I read/watched the story unfold before me on my iPad.

Award Season Focus

Complete List of 2013 Annie Award Nominations

Seven animated features lead the nominations for ASIFA-Hollywood's 41st Annie Awards.

Award Season Focus

“Despicable Me 2,” “Room on the Broom,” “Adventure Time” Win BAFTAs

Although the BAFTA awards are generally touted as Britain’s equivalent to the Oscars, a key difference is that the BAFTAs are divided …

Award Season Focus

“Croods” Directors Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders on Making An Ensemble Film

When the server enters the drawing room of the Crosby Hotel, Kirk DeMicco’s eyes begin to dance, “Mini desserts are coming! Many, many mini desserts!” Both DeMicco ("Racing Stripes," "Space Chimps") and Chris Sanders ("Lilo & Stitch," "How to Train Your Dragon") are in New York to take part in a presentation on the making of "The Croods," the animated film that they directed for Dreamworks earlier this year, which went on to gross nearly $600 million worldwide.