Employing a team of dozens of animators and illustrators and over a thousand original drawings, Oscar-nominated animator PES delivers new stop-motion commercial, ‘Paper,’ for Honda.
Nina Gantz’s ‘Edmond’ wins the NextGen Skills Academy Best of British Award, and ‘I Got This’ by Tom Gran & Madeline Grossi receives the 2015 Anijam Award.
Daisy Jacobs’ Oscar-nominated animated short ‘The Bigger Picture’ is named the winner of the 2015 Cartoon d’Or at the 26th edition of the European pitching and co-production event in Toulouse, France.
Alyce Tzue of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco wins gold medal for ‘Soar’; CalArts student Seth Boyden takes the silver for ‘An Object at Rest,’ and SVA students Nicholas Manfredi and Elizabeth Ku-Herrero take the bronze for ‘Taking the Plunge.’
Geneva Film Co. and Prospero Pictures developing a feature film, television series and Virtual Reality experience based on award-winning animated short from Toronto-based director and stereoscopic 3D pioneer James Stewart.
Paris Opera commissions a short film from Disney animation veteran Glen Keane for their new digital stage, ‘3rd Stage.’
Expert tutorials explain production techniques used on live-action/CG short; modeling and rigging lessons free.
Legendary animator Richard Williams joins the Fredrikstad Animation Festival with screenings of The Academy’s work print of ‘The Thief and the Cobbler - A Moment in Time’ and his latest short film, ‘Prologue.’
Midwest-based animation studio provides character animation for 20th Century Fox film promo inspired by vintage PSAs, World War II-era propaganda newsreels, and present-day pharmaceutical commercials.
The deadline for submissions to HAFF 2016 is Tuesday, December 1, 2015.
Oscar-winning director John Lasseter, along with ‘Big Hero 6’ filmmakers Roy Conli, Don Hall and Chris Williams, will be presenters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 42nd Student Academy Awards on Thursday, September 17.
Manchester and Westby-based animation studio Realtime UK teams with British video game developer Rare to pack more than 30 years of gaming excellence into one short film.
Online teaser for Ridley Scott's ‘The Martian’ sets leading astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson against a digital backdrop created by up-and-coming Polish VFX house Juice.
Legendary Disney animator draws life-sized versions of Ariel and Beast with an HTC Vive headset and the Google-owned 3D painting app Tilt Brush.
Hosted by comedians Bart Batchelor and Chris Nielsen, new series is a compilation of comedy shorts sourced from independent Canadian animation teams.
Seventh edition of the Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival to include PES, Cordell Barker, and a special behind-the-scenes presentation of Mark Osborne’s ‘The Little Prince.’
Five broadcasters on board new CGI animated medieval comedy series produced by leading French studio TeamTO.
Screening series for Oscar-winning stop-motion animator and Puppetoons creator runs September 10-13 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
Bruce Bickford's animations are incomparable and indescribable.
Stop-motion animated short from Eirik Grønmo Bjørnsen and Anna Mantzaris has screened at more than 100 festivals, including Annecy, Hiroshima and Zagreb, picking up 21 international awards.
Don Hertzfeldt’s ‘World of Tomorrow’ wins the top prize at 13th edition of the International Animation Film Festival Baden; check out the rest of the entries in AWN’s image gallery from Fantoche 2015.
The new hand-drawn six-minute short film from animation legend Richard Williams begins its Oscar-qualifying run at the Laemmle Royal in West LA on Friday, September 11.
‘World of Tomorrow’ (U.S. 2015) from Don Hertzfeldt takes the prize for Best Film in the international competition; ‘Erlkönig’ (CH 2015) from Georges Schwizgebel takes the honors as the Best Swiss film; Carlos Lascano wins the Best Kids prize for his film ‘Lila.’
The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International now accepting online submissions for animated shorts, feature films, commercials, game trailers and motionography.
Bruce Bickford and Michèle Cournoyer set to present retrospective works at this year’s Ottawa International Animation Festival, running September 16-20.
