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Annecy Unveils 2026 Shorts Lineup Featuring Hertzfeldt, Hulsing, Schwizgebel
Films from established animation voices debut alongside award-winning titles and emerging experiments, signaling a strong and diverse year for the French fest.
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Director Mike Johnson On 20 Years Of ‘Corpse Bride’: ‘Proving Stop-Motion Could Be As Smooth And As Fluid As Computer Animation’
Mike Johnson discusses how 'Corpse Bride' reshaped stop-motion, proving the medium could match CG in fluidity and ambition while keeping to its handcrafted roots.
Hot Wheels: Creating The Toy-Car Titles For JJ Abrams and LaToya Morgan’s Crime Thriller Series ‘Duster’
'We treated the cars like characters': Kevin Van Der Meiren and David Nicolas on the show's surreal Hot Wheels-inspired titles.
Opening Night Of Annecy Festival Turns Political As Filmmakers Go Off-Script
The audience reportedly erupted into applause when Bulgarian-Canadian filmmaker Theo Ushev directed F-bombs at Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu.
USC Launches The Expanded Animation (XA) MFA Program: A Bold New Frontier For Artists And Innovators
USC's new animation program is a dynamic interdisciplinary initiative designed for passionate visual media artists from all disciplines.
When Did Animated Shorts Get So Long? An Investigation Into The Uncomfortable Rise Of Long Shorts
As animation directors explore longer film formats, the trend is causing headaches for producers, distributors, festival programmers, and educators.
Takeshi Murata And Christopher Rutledge’s ‘Larry’ Lets The Dogs Out (To Play Basketball)
'Larry' is everything you want and rarely get in animation: an absurd, hilarious, philosophical work that ignores all manner of reality and physics.
‘3 Body Problem’ VFX Supervisor Stefen Fangmeier On Balancing Interplanetary Realities In Netflix’s Ambitious New Sci-Fi Series
Out today, '3 Body Problem' promises to be a spectacle unlike anything the streamer has released so far.
‘Elemental’ VFX Supervisor Sanjay Bakshi Discusses The Combustible Elements Behind Pixar’s Oscar-Nominated Feature
Bakshi also gave us access to a trove of behind-the-scenes artwork and explained how his team brought life to Element City and its characters.
OpenAI’s Sora Creates Minute-Long Photorealistic Animation From Text Prompts
Built on OpenAI's Dall-E and GPT models, Sora can also take an existing video and extend it or fill in missing frames.
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, And Nvidia Ally On OpenUSD
The alliance will work to standardize the cg ecosystem by advancing the capabilities of Open Universal Scene Description.
Eugene Troubetzkoy, Nuclear Physicist Who Co-Founded Blue Sky Studios, Dies At 91
Troubetzkoy was a founding father of ray-tracing technology and co-wrote Blue Sky's proprietary CGI Studio renderer.
Anthropomorphized Fonts Grow A Garden In Nata Metlukh’s ‘Regular’
Our Cartoon Brew Pick of the Day is Nata Metlukh’s self-produced Regular, a film about fonts with almost no text.
‘The Sea Beast’ Reviews Roundup: Critics Praise Film’s Stunning Set Pieces And Expert Cinematography
Netflix's The Sea Beast launches worldwide today, and critics are praising the animation work of Chris Williams and his team.
Ken Knowlton, A Founding Father Of Computer Art And Animation, Dies at 91
Knowlton's pioneering work at Bell Labs in the 1960s is the foundation on which modern computer animation is built.
‘Lightyear’ VFX Supervisor Jane Yen On Making An IMAX Blockbuster From Home, And How VR Helped
Working from home, the studio developed a new IMAX pipeline for its first theatrical release in more than two years.
Disney Shares ‘Strange World’ Details And Sneak Peeks ‘Baymax!,’ ‘Zootopia+’
Disney's Friday afternoon presentation at Annecy was flashy, but left something to be desired when placed against other, more daring lineups.
Re-Creating An Icon: Bringing Jessica Rabbit Into The Third Dimension With iClone
Dutch artist Jasper Hesseling used iClone to model and animate a 3d Jessica Rabbit in just two weeks.
How The School Of Visual Arts Is Helping Students Extend Their Learning Outside The Classroom
Students discuss the illuminating panels, workshops, and other events they have organized in recent months.
Oscar Shorts: The Films That Deserve A Nomination This Year
These films struck us with their beauty and ambition. Will Academy voters agree?
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