Adoration and Perseverance: Louis Heinberg’s ‘Day Dream’
Colgate sophomore’s ongoing passion for Bag Raiders’ ‘Shooting Stars’ culminates in charming first film, an animated music video, and spot at Animation Day in Cannes.
Colgate sophomore’s ongoing passion for Bag Raiders’ ‘Shooting Stars’ culminates in charming first film, an animated music video, and spot at Animation Day in Cannes.
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.
Short film for U.K. retailer Harvey Nichols cleverly employs live-action security footage blended with 2D animation to create a humorous short film to help discourage shoplifting.
Switzerland’s largest animation film festival, to be held in Baden September 6-11, will host a parade of stars including Georges Schwizgebel, Konstantin Bronzit, Simon Otto, Claude Barras, 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.
Deadlines for submissions of 3D animation & stills, visual effects and visualization extended to July 19; 20th anniversary edition to be held in Munich October 27-28.
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.
Groundbreaking collaboration between Google ATAP, creative studio Bullitt, VFX house The Mill and director Justin Lin honored with two Gold Digital Craft Lions at the 2016 Cannes Lions Awards Show.
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.
Director Alan Barillaro and producer Marc Sondheimer discuss their charming, funny and gorgeous new animated short film playing in front of the studio’s latest box office smash, ‘Finding Dory.’
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.
Brittany-based animation producer receives its second award at Annecy 2016 as the leading French exporter of short films.
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.
Full-length Virtual Reality experience created by director Rob Petrie and EP Tim Dillon to be released later this year.
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.
Two-minute trailer and behind-the-scenes video from Oscar and Emmy-nominated production studio showcases scope and scale of ‘Halo Wars 2’ universe.
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.