Cartoon Brew Writers Pick Their Favorite Features, Series, And Shorts Of 2025
Cartoon Brew writers share their top animated features, series, and shorts of 2025, highlighting indie discoveries, global hits, and TV standouts.
Cartoon Brew writers share their top animated features, series, and shorts of 2025, highlighting indie discoveries, global hits, and TV standouts.
The veteran producer discusses cultural ambition, original filmmaking, and how Studio 4°C navigates an anime industry driven by IP and scale.
Andy Serkis’ animated 'Animal Farm' gets a flashy CG trailer from distributor Angel, indicating a hyper-modern, pop-inflected take on Orwell.
Miailhe’s painted animation brings Alfred Nakache’s memories to life, charting a swimmer’s resilience through beauty, trauma, and water.
The two companies outlined their plans today for new AI tools, stressing artist control and creativity as the industry navigates growing automation anxieties.
Strong’s haunting stop-motion short unspools in the near future, where the fate of the world rests on Dove, a mysterious warrior who can shift gender.
A pioneering force in hand-drawn effects and an accomplished writer and educator, Gilland leaves a lasting impact on artists across the industry.
Kojima Productions unveils 'Death Stranding Isolations' for Disney+, the franchise’s second animated spinoff after September’s 'Mosquito' reveal.
A lush, CG-animated feature from Reza Memari and Telescope Animation, 'The Last Whale Singer' shows off what's possible through European co-production.
The hauntingly beautiful stop-motion short follows a poor boy who discovers a mysterious girl whose tears transform into luminous pearls.
For Halloween this year, we’re taking a look at some of the most memorable vampires throughout animation history, so pour yourself a cup of blood and dive in!
The Northern Animation Network wraps a record 2025 by unveiling a new YouTube channel featuring testimonials from top Nordic-Baltic animation voices.
Patricio Plaza’s 'Carne de Dios' is a haunting animated journey through colonial-era faith, violence, and transformation at the edge of body and spirit.
Creators Tracy Butler and Fable Siegel will expand 'Lackadaisy' under the new Glitch Presents banner. 'Final Space' creator Olan Rogers will help development.
Warner Bros. and DC reveal 'Batman: Knightfall,' a multi-part animated saga adapting one of the Batman comics' most legendary arcs.
Canadian distributor PVP Distribution has picked up international rights to 2D preschool series 'Treehouse Friends' from Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduction and Media Solution Animation.
Hideo Kojima reveals 'Death Stranding: Mosquito' (working title), a new feature directed by Hiroshi Miyamoto with a script by Aaron Guzikowski.
South Africa’s Triggerfish opens a UK studio, expanding its European reach and recruiting local talent for an upcoming TV special.
Glitch Productions launches 'Knights of Guinevere,' its first 2D animated pilot, created by Dana Terrace, John Bailey Owens, and Zach Marcus
From rainbow penguins to dystopian thrillers, explore the wild, heartfelt, and inventive new TV animation projects unveiled at Cartoon Forum 2025.