The Humane Society of the United States teams up with Aardman Animations to produce a four-minute animated children’s film exposing problems with factory farming from the perspective of a piglet named Ginger.

Visual production company BiG MACHiNE completes "Living Nightmares," a series of 10 original short films for AMC Fearfest.

The 14th annual Animation Show of Shows, a traveling selection of the year’s best animated short films, is underway with dates across the U.S.

Just in time for Halloween, former Digital Domain senior VFX artists Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma create a fun and magical animated short, “The Green Ruby Pumpkin.”

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) launches the sixth edition of Get Animated!, bringing many of the country’s finest and funniest animated films to communities.

Animation studio Persistent Peril helps animates the finale for the UK’s 2012 Camp Bestival.

The Tehran International Animation Festival issues a call for entries for the 2013 edition of the festival, to be held March 3 – 7, 2013.

The VIEW Conference announces 2012 VIEW Award winners, including Isaac King’s “Second Hand,” which won the prize for Best Short.

Czech animator and puppeteer Bretislav Pojar, a two-time Cannes winner known for his short films starring a teddy bear duo, dies in Prague at the age of 89.

The fourth edition of the Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival opens Friday evening, and includes 73 animated Stop Motion short films from 22 countries.