Weird Market 2025 Spotlights Original And Top Global IPs, Awards Emerging Animation And Game Creators
The 17th Weird Market honored 13 standout projects in animation, video games, and short films, spotlighting global talent and original IPs.
The 17th Weird Market honored 13 standout projects in animation, video games, and short films, spotlighting global talent and original IPs.
Zohar Dvir’s 'Butterfly Kiss' turns fear of commitment into eerie body horror as a couple faces love, change, and metamorphosis.
Featuring narration by Jane Goodall, 'anyone lived in a pretty how town' blends E.E. Cummings’ poetry, painterly animation, and orchestral music.
From the creators of 'Loving Vincent,' 'Cave of Dreams' is a hand-painted horror film diving into Francisco de Goya’s haunting late-life Black Paintings.
Aero Theatre hosts a 'Care Bears' 40th anniversary screening to support AnimAID and Legends Animated, helping animation workers impacted by wildfires.
Quentin Tarantino’s 'Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair' hits theaters December 5 with a never-before-seen 7.5-minute animated sequence.
Aaron Blaise’s heartfelt, hand-drawn short 'Snow Bear' is a moving Arctic tale of loss, hope, and love, now qualified for the 2026 Oscars.
Ellipse Animation and Belvision are teaming with Nickelodeon to launch the new CG 'The Marsupilamis' series worldwide this fall.
Sony's 'KPop Demon Hunters' is the longest-running English-language film in Netflix’s Global Top 10, sitting at or near the top of the charts for 15 weeks.
Rising global anime demand lifts 'Infinity Castle' past Western superheroes, reshaping box office trends and studio franchise strategies.
Discover how Emmy-winning filmmaker James A. Castillo used VR tools to bring Goya’s haunting Black Paintings to life in 'The Quinta’s Ghost.'
Discover how DreamWorks reimagined 'Gabby’s Dollhouse' with richer textures, tactile details, smart scaling, and feature-level animation.
Oscar-winning filmmaker and story artist Mark Andrews wowed Comic-Con Málaga with an improvised storyboarding masterclass.
Disney’s 20th Century Studios will send the Simpsons back to the silver screen in July 2027 with a sequel to the franchise's half-billion 2007 feature.
Announced in 2018 after 'Hotel Transylvania 3,' the darker medieval action film stalled at Sony, but Tartakovsky hopes fan buzz can revive it.
'Zootopia 2' grew bigger as directors Jared Bush and Byron Howard stayed “free to fail,” taking risks to push story and world-building while keeping its heart.
Canadian gem 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls' and other standout shorts, features, and student films were also celebrated as this year’s festival wrapped things up.
Filmmaker Matea Radic revisits war-torn Sarajevo decades later in 'Paradaïz,' blending memory, loss, and identity in a moving animated short.
Spike & Mike’s cult-favorite Animation Extravaganza returns Oct. 31–Nov. 2 with new shorts, rare vault gems, and timeless offbeat animated chaos.
Writer and producer Jessica Conrad and director Gabriel DeFrancesco explain what goes into making an episode of TV's most iconic animated sitcom.