ASIFA-Hollywood announces he date for its 43rd Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in animation.
ANIMAZE 2015, the Montreal International Animation Film Festival, opens with the 40th anniversary restoration of the X-rated animated feature, ‘Shame of the Jungle,’ directed by cartoonist Picha and Boris Szulzinger.
Till Nowak’s ‘Dissonance’ (Germany) wins Best Animation at the Oscar-qualifying short films festival held in Aspen.
With 177 films in competition, the 25th World Festival of Animated Film runs June 9-14 in Zagreb, Croatia.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces show dates for 2016, 2017, 2018.
Director of the Oscar-nominated short film ‘Head Over Heels’ will develop and make his feature directorial debut with Sony Picture Animation’s ‘The Lamb.’
Oscar-nominated animator shares insights into independent filmmaking, from his creative process to how he deals with the industry's changing mediums and business models.
Just in time for National Poetry Month, the National Film Board of Canada and ARTE unveil their series of 12 short interactive stories at interactivehaiku.com.
Submissions for Best Animated Short, Best Animated Student Short, Best Commissioned Animation, Best Animated Documentary and Best Animated Music Video will be accepted until July 1, 2015.
Produced by Blink Industries, Kickstarter-funded follow-up to the 2011 short film, ‘Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared,’ was created using a combination of puppetry, stop-motion and cutting-edge 3D animation.
Fifty-three short films have been selected to screen at Annecy 2015 -- with 30 percent of them made by women -- including 10 films competing in the Off-Limits category and 33 out of competition.
Held in Batumi, Georgia October 5-10, the deadline for submissions to the 7th International Festival of Animated Films TOFUZI 2015 is June 30.
Sony Pictures Animation is hosting the 2015 World Animation Celebration international short film festival on October 24 & 25.
South Korea’s ‘Johnny Express,’ directed by James Woo, also wins an Audience Award and Jury Award at the 2015 New York International Children’s Film Festival.
Estonia’s ‘House of Unconsciousness’ wins the Grand Prix award in the narrative short category; Japan’s ‘Dark Mixer’ wins in the non-narrative short category.
Deadline for submissions to the annual Independent Animation Showcase is May 15; Psychedelic Anijam submissions will be accepted until May 29.
Oscar-nominated animated short follows a husband and wife who have grown apart: he lives on the floor, she lives on the ceiling, and their marriage hangs in the balance.
‘Descent’ by Johan Rijpma, ‘Ultrakort Leader’ by Patrick Raats, and a contagious music video for ‘Nobody Beats the Drum: Let it Go’ by Max Italiaander and Levi Jacobs are all nominated for the Grand Prix prize in Dutch Animation at the 18th edition of the Holland Animation Film Festival.
New kid-focused YouTube channel to feature toy-game-hybrid animated series ‘Sick Bricks.’
Animator Sascha Ciezata releases a multimedia graphic novel based on Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ with daily episodes on Instagram.
Oscar winner Chris Landreth is this year’s mentoring director for NFB’s apprenticeship program for emerging animators.
Feature selections include Studio Ghibli’s ‘When Marnie Was There’ and Aardman’s ‘Shaun the Sheep The Movie’; short film selections include Steven Woloshen’s ‘1000 Plateaus’ and Piotr Dumala’s ‘Hipopotamy.’
Short film from Berlin-based Péter Vácz wins 120 awards employs a mixture of 2D and 3D animation.
Short film follow-up to ‘Frozen’ can be seen exclusively in theaters with Disney’s new live-action ‘Cinderella’ on March 13, 2015.
A selection of images featuring all the animation and visual effects Oscar winners and nominees, starting from the pre-Oscar Academy lunch and panel discussions and culminating with backstage celebrations during ABC's telecast of The 87th Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 22, 2015! AWN congratulates the Oscar-winning teams behind 'Big Hero 6,' 'Feast' and 'Interstellar' as well as all the talented artists who worked on each of the nominated films.
