2026 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Ovary-Acting’ Director Ida Melum
Ida Melum’s stop-motion short 'Ovary-Acting' blends humor and heart as a woman literally confronts her uterus while debating motherhood.
Ida Melum’s stop-motion short 'Ovary-Acting' blends humor and heart as a woman literally confronts her uterus while debating motherhood.
Cartoon Saloon’s 'Éiru' is a visually lush Celtic myth about courage, nature, and divine balance, brought to life with a breathtaking color palette.
'Playing God,' a skin-crawling stop-motion short where abandoned clay figures fight for identity and belonging, earned qualification by winning the grand jury award at Animayo.
Framestore’s VFX team brought Krypto the Superdog and Superman’s Fortress of Solitude to life, contributing over 590 shots.
Mykyta Lyskov’s 'Kyiv Cake' layers humor, tragedy, and surreal imagery to capture Ukraine’s resilience and defiance during war.
Cinesite takes on its first full animation and VFX feature with 'Smurfs,' now streaming on Paramount+, blending Peyo’s style with hybrid magic.
Composer Pablo Pico discusses crafting the original music for Eva Lusbaronian’s dialogue-free short 'Death of the Fish,' which just premiered at TIFF.
'Light of the World' brings hand-drawn 2D animation back to theaters with a global team, indie spirit, and some '90s Disney known-how.
The indie pilot 'Plinko and Mark' blends contemporary humor with nostalgic '90s cartoon vibes, earning nearly 300k views since its July 31 debut.
Director Eddie Alcazar dives into clay animation and ’90s chaos with 'Bullet Time,' calling it a 'fresh new way' to blend nostalgia and form.
The new Disney+ documentary about the making of 'A Goofy Movie' is augmented with unique animated sequences that bring the story to life.
The studio has set the film's U.S. debut for October 29, 2025.
"Without AI, the work would take a minimum of one week to ten days. Using AI, it is about four of five hours," says the studio's design director.
Deutz's film has qualified multiple times over for this year's Oscar competition, including winning the grand prize at Animafest Zagreb.
The company has on occasion hosted North Korean animators in Italy for animation training.
The latest Netflix animated pic marks the feature animation directorial debuts of both 'Napoleon Dynamite' director Jared Hess and 'Unikitty' showrunner Lynn Wang.
The ad demonstrates the scale of edible food thrown out by Japanese households every day.
'Stopmotion' is a live-action horror film, but also contains three stop-motion shorts within its 93-minute runtime.
Nearly half of this year's 33 Oscar-qualified animated features feature hand-drawn 2d animation, or cg meant to look hand-drawn.
What could you animate in one day? These students found out at this year's 24 Hours animation contest.