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.
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.
Gustafson was also the supervising director of 'The PJs' and animation director of 'Fantastic Mr. Fox.'
CTA dev Garry Pye and his 15-year-old daughter Maddison demonstrate how easy creating animation is with CTA 5.2.
The editor of 'Across the Spider-Verse' dissects the film's unconventional opening sequence and its climactic train-top fight scene, among other topics.
Historian Vincent Alexander has exhumed a frightening list of stop-motion gems worth dusting off this Halloween.
Freleng’s film is a showcase for how rhythm and motion alone can create laughter when the timing is perfect.
You know you've created a popular cartoon character when fans turn up at your studio asking to meet her.
The veteran director talks to us about "Primal," his series-turned-feature, currently in the running for an Oscar.
DitoGear offers essential gear for stop-motion animators. Here's our case study of how one animator used DitoGear's Animator Cube to create his latest project.
The studio looked to real world reference for water, sand, fire, and smoke in their latest Lego movie.
Favorites of 2008? Cartoon Brew co-editor Amid certainly chose several that could have/would have made the top of my list. However, upon …
Caballero discusses hybrid animation, miniature sets, and rotoscoped performance in a deeply personal documentary shaped by family memory and grief.
'Winter in March' is a handcrafted film that uses soft materials to explore difficult, often painful subjects following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Annecy winner Shaddy Safadi ('Christo the Civilized Barbarian') debuts his dark horror short 'Diaboli,' a chilling tale of faith, fear, and the Devil’s return.
'Spider Rose' director Jennifer Yuh Nelson on returning to favorite stories, designing an 'ugly cute' creature, and why U.S. sci-fi sticks to short form.
“I wasn’t aiming for realism,” says "MirrorMask" director Dave McKean. “CG can go anywhere and be anything, [but] so much of it is just trying to be photoreal, and that seems a very narrow target."
The unauthorized documentary provides new insights into the 30-year history of one of America's most famous animation studios.
Director Tomás Pichardo Espaillat speaks about his bigscreen accomplishment and how he turned limitations, like a lack of animators in his country, into an opportunity to experiment creatively.
The movie will debut May 30 on the streaming service.