Graduation film directed by Sébastien Leclerc, Vincent Boulot, Jean Burtschell, Romain Couturiaux and Guillaume Deleuze is inspired by a quote from Swiss moral philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel.
Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj’s ‘Borrowed Time’ wins best in show; Ton Roosendaal’s ‘Cosmos Laundromat’ receives the jury award, and Mengjung Yang, Gaetan, Benjamin Lebourgeois, Clarie Vandermeersch and Alendandre Veaux’s ‘Crabe-Phare’ wins best student project.
Comedy showcase featuring top acts interacting with animated jokes brought to life by members of the Portland animation community to be held in tandem with The Hoofnagle Tapes on August 11 at The Alberta Rose Theatre.
Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader and Peter Dinklage star in the $335 million global box office sensation ‘The Angry Birds Movie,’ hatching early on Digital July 29, on Blu-ray Combo Pack, 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack & DVD August 16.
Students at the Bristol School of Animation at the University of the West of England create short animations to bring choice audio nuggets from the service’s output to life.
Weekend-long event running July 9-11 connects rising talent with mentors with opportunity for college students to create original animation based on the imaginative world of Ian Jones-Quartey’s ‘O.K. KO! Let’s Be Heroes.’
Tenth annual showcase event from the Toronto Animated Image Society to include the results of the 2016 Anijam competition, a new work in VR by artist Michael Enzbrunner, and more.
Following his abrupt dismissal at the beginning of June, legendary animation director Priit Pärn is restored to his post as an instructor at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
List of new members invited to join the Academy includes 28 previous Oscar recipients and 98 nominees, as well as 283 new international members from 60 countries.
Nearly 2,000 entries were received for this year’s edition of The Rookies, formerly known as the CG Student Awards, with close to 500 academic facilities encouraging their students to submit work.
Stop-motion animated film based in Derbyshire Mill launches Indiegogo campaign to raise £10,000 for their captivating short film about energy.
Submissions are free for the 8th International Festival of Animated Films, TOFUZI 2016, to be held October 3-8 in Batumi, Georgia.
Trailer for stop-motion/digitally animated short inspired by a medieval Flemish fable by graduating students Sander Dufourmont and Wouter Geerits wins the Jury Prize at the LUCA School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium.
Fortieth Anniversary edition of Portugal's international animation festival runs November 7-13; deadline for entries is July 10.
Short film program now online for independent animation festival’s 13th edition running July 28-31 at Rooftop Films and BAMcinématek in New York City.
Margate-based production company creates new paper craft stop-motion film for agency Blimey Creative and Happy Eggs Co. USA.
New series of animated shorts from the LEGO Group to air on Disney Channel and digital platforms this fall; new story to launch with books in July along with Website and ‘Frozen’-inspired Instagram account.
Sixth and final installment of creative duo Becky Sloan & Joseph Pelling’s ‘Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ shorts uses a combination of puppetry, stop-motion, 2D and 3D animation to explore the world of dreams.
With a focus on focus on Balkan animation, Slovakian animation festival to host The Quay Brothers and Steven Woloshen at its ninth edition running June 29 through July 3, 2016.
The Cristal for a Feature Film is awarded to French-Swiss co-production ‘My Life as a Courgette (Ma vie de Courgette),’ directed by Claude Barras.
CG-animated short film for the Gajusz Foundation is created by Karol Belina Brzozowski and directed by Marcin Drabinski with a cast of animals and other creatures by character designer Krzysztof ‘Green Pea’ Grochowina.
Ten prizes are awarded at Annecy 2016, including the Festivals Connexion Award, the Junior Jury Award for a Graduation Film, and the Junior Jury Award for a Short Film.
Trailer comes on the heels of a sneak preview of ‘Rain or Shine’ from Google Spotlight Stories at the Annecy International Animation Festival.
Director Leo Matsuda and producer Sean Lurie delight crowd with amusing notes about the making of their new Disney short.
Six-minute short playing ahead of ‘Finding Dory’ is directed by Alan Barillaro, supervising animator on Pixar Animation Studio’s ‘WALL•E’ and ‘Brave.’
