2026 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Éiru’ Director Giovanna Ferrari, Producer Nora Twomey
Cartoon Saloon’s 'Éiru' is a visually lush Celtic myth about courage, nature, and divine balance, brought to life with a breathtaking color palette.
Cartoon Saloon’s 'Éiru' is a visually lush Celtic myth about courage, nature, and divine balance, brought to life with a breathtaking color palette.
From anime upstarts to international indies and the absence of stop-motion, the 2026 Animated Feature race looks anything but predictable.
After going through distribution hell, the film will finally get in front of global audiences on August 13.
'We treated the cars like characters': Kevin Van Der Meiren and David Nicolas on the show's surreal Hot Wheels-inspired titles.
"Let us live; let us go home; stop the bombs," said Annecy's artistic director Marcel Jean at Saturday night's closing ceremony.
A deep dive into three new indie Canadian features screening at Annecy.
Jasmine Amy Rogers, the Tony-nominated star of 'Boop! The Musical,' reveals her favorite Betty Boop cartoon, too.
We take a look at ten new shorts screening at this year's Annecy Festival.
The company, which says its software will do for animation what “the iPhone did for photography,” also announced the hiring of two veteran Pixar animators.
The 96-minute film will be introduced next week to buyers at the Cannes Film Market, and will premiere at the Annecy animation festival next month.
The film's North American distribution rights have been acquired by Cartuna and Irony Point.
The Annecy Festival's artistic director provides commentary on why each feature film was selected for competition.
'Flow' director Gints Zilbalodis and plug-in developer Mārtiņš Upītis talk about the development of the water plug-in used to create the Golden Globe-winning film.
In this exclusive series, the filmmakers behind each of this year's Oscar-shortlisted shorts reveal their favorite shots.
"After finishing the script, I did not read it again," Zilbalodis told Cartoon Brew. "Even when I was making the animatic, that was based on my memory of the script."
Cartoon Brew spoke with Lorey about executing Gunn’s vision, the aesthetic challenges of their show, and if there’s feature animation plans for these Commandos.
In this atmospheric short, a watchman clocks into his lonely booth and spends hours composing endless security logs to stay awake, as he slowly descends into darkness.
The NFB film earned its Oscars qualification by winning the Helen Hill Award for animated short at the New Orleans Film Festival.
"I go berserk as far as the formula," Hawkins explained of his approach. "I just can’t resist the temptation to take the formula and change it."
The film is adapted from characters first introduced in the children's book 'Pete & Pickles' by 'Bloom County' creator Berkeley Breathed