Forty-eight projects selected for the Graduation Films Competition, with an additional 24 projects selected for the TV Films category; 35 projects will compete in the Commissioned Films category.
Forty-six shorts selected from a total of 1,800 submissions from 86 countries to compete in the Short Film Grand Competition at the Animafest Zagreb World Festival of Animated Film.
Submissions to Japan’s New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival open April 15.
Deadline for submissions to fourth annual event running March 21-24, 2019 is November 30.
Gobelins short ‘Best Friend’ wins jury award for best student film; ENSI short ‘Wild Love’ receives the special jury award.
CG-animated short film from MoPA students Florian Brauch, Kim Tailhades, Matthieu Pujol, Yohan Thireau and Romain Thirion won the Best In Show award at the 2018 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival.
CalArts short ‘Raccoon and the Light’ and MoPA’s ‘The Green Bird’ win gold medals at 2018 Student Academy Awards.
19 directors, including eight from four animated films, will receive medals at upcoming October 11 ceremony.
Downtown Los Angeles animation and music showcase curated by CalArts students Sam Lane and Wolf Woodcock to be held September 8.
Fourth annual event to be held March 21-24, 2019.
Four international and seven U.S.-made animated short films named finalists for the 2018 Student Academy Awards.
Ivana Šebestová wins Anča Slovak Award for ‘Yellow.’
Women directed or co-directed 46 percent of films that will screen in the festival.
A team of graduating students from MoPA garner accolades for hyper-realistic animated short with a noir twist.
Esteban Bravo and Beth David’s Oscar contender ‘In A Heartbeat’ captivates audiences hungry for increased LGBT+ representation in animation.
Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films 2018 to be held May 1-6 in the city of Třeboň in the Czech Republic.
Downtown Los Angeles animation and music event curated by producer/photographer Peter Galindo, animator Sam Lane and musician Wolf Woodcock to be held on August 27.
CalArts, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Filmakademie, Kingston University, Ringling, SVU and USC represented in U.S and international animation categories.
Student film ‘Song of a Toad’ named best in show; John Lewis ‘Buster the Boxer’ wins jury award; MOPA’s ‘Garden Party’ awarded best student project.
Eighty-seven shorts and 49 graduation films selected to compete at the 2017 edition of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
Every Tuesday, Chris Robinson digests and dissects (relatively) new indie animation short films.
Standout shorts range from surreal, hand-drawn interpretations of a bicycle race to painstakingly crafted 3D animation showcasing a formidable range of CG expertise and artistry.
Hand-drawn, 2D-animated graduation short by Canadian animator Myriam Obin explores themes of police brutality as seen through the eyes of a child.
Directed by Francesco Aber and Alessandro Mattei, CG-animated short was produced at the National School of Cinema in Turin, Italy.
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.
