Disney and Pixar release 12 unforgettable short films in one collection, plus seven rarely seen student films from directors John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter.

The inaugural edition of The World Animated Feature Films and VFX Summit kicks off October 28-30 at the California Yacht Club in Marina del Rey, CA.

BAFTA issues its final call for entries for the Short Animation category.

The Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival announces the 2012 list of winners, including Public Prize recipient “My Strange Grandfather” by Dina Velikovskaya.

“Hotel Transylvania” director Genndy Tartakovsky unveils a new short film about the ghoulish retreat called “Goodnight Mr. Foot.”

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.

Animated short “Wolf Dog Tales” is showcased at the Digital Hollywood Conference.

Building a stop-motion animation studio can be a challenging endeavor. Especially when that studio is located on the 31st floor of a corporate office building right smack in Midtown Manhattan.

Disney-Pixar releases “Partysaurus Rex,” the latest “Toy Story Toon” featuring the wet-and wild adventures of Rex.

Award-winning animation and visual effects studio Brain Zoo Studios makes its short film debut with Pepe & Lucas.

XYZ director Darcy Prendergast teams up with Seamus Spilsbury to direct this super cute video for Wax Tailor’s latest single, “Time To Go,” featuring Aloe Blacc.