Friends, collaborators and admirers of the French-Iranian graphic novelist and filmmaker, who died June 4, 2026, at 56, remember the introversion behind her work, the humor that carried it, and why she refused to explain Iran to anyone.
Annual computer graphics conference brings professionals, academics, educators and students together to gain and share insights in cutting-edge technology across animation, VFX, gaming and immersive experiences.
2 years after Warner Bros. closed Rooster Teeth and sold the franchise, Monty Oum's series is being packaged for film and TV alongside the publisher's original graphic novel line.
Toronto company is built around original IP, with 'The Little Cloud Thief' in development for both feature and episodic; Gaudette's 8-minute short took the $50K Grand Prix at this year's Runway AI Festival.
Written by Jaydeep Hasrajani and Jake Goldman with Nitya Mehra attached, feature follows an Indian American teenager from New Jersey suddenly dropped into a Bollywood musical.
The Academy honored 16 students across 4 categories, with the animation prizes going to films from Gobelins, ESMA and Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
JJ starts kindergarten, loses his bear and lands in a kingdom where singing is outlawed - Moonbug Entertainment's nursery-rhyme juggernaut heads to theaters February 19, 2027, with DNEG Group handling animation and DreamWorks Animation producing.
SEC filing shows company has put money behind machine learning at Disney Research Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering, promising a creative process that stays 'human-centered' - pledge lands after job reductions at Pixar earlier this year, and follows the company's creation of an internal oversight unit for the technology.
Jerry Beck, J.J. Blumenkranz and Tom Caulfield join as vice presidents, Bill Turner as treasurer and Erica Pinto as secretary, while the Oscar-nominated documentarian who started at Disney on 'The Little Mermaid' inherits the industry's awards show.
2 nights each; Goro Miyazaki's directorial debut joins festival lineup for first time on its 20th anniversary; Isao Takahata's 1991 feature marks 35 years; tickets on sale now.
The industry veteran will take charge of strategy, operations and creative production across the growing company’s 5 studios and for client relationships internationally.
ASIFA-Hollywood has opened its call for entries and added a Best International Anime Production for TV/Media category; entries close November 30.
Launched by the Manchester Animation Festival, the initiative will select 6 projects for a 7-month, BFI-backed program built to get UK animated features to market; submissions open through August 16.
Selected from more than 100 applications, the teams present to a live industry audience and jury on September 23, with two advancing to the September 24 final; festival runs September 23-27 in Ottawa.
Studio space, a skilled local crew base, and a production record that includes ‘Peaky Blinders,’ ‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man,’ and an untitled sequel helped secure the designation; inward investment accounted for £5.8 billion of UK film and high-end TV spend in 2025.
All-new new feature-length anime based on the famed ‘Astro Boy’ creator’s ‘Princess Knight,’ directed by Yuki Igarashi with animation by Outline, streams August 8.
Director set to attend and talk about the production of Sony Pictures Animation’s animated sports comedy; event runs October 12-16 in Turin, Italy.
Columnist Andrew Osmond asks if anime is still ‘unique’ in 2026.
‘Heavyweight’ talent to voice Cracktor in the upcoming original animated film that reimagines the roles of Cinderella’s supposedly ‘evil’ stepsisters in the classic fairytale; streams November 20.
The famed ‘Dear Basketball’ director was safely rescued from Mummy Mountain in Paradise Valley after becoming ill during a family hike.
Led by Chris McLaughlin and Greg Fisher, the studio handled 746 shots across 17 sequences, creating Eternia, Castle Grayskull, Cringer, Zoar, Roboto and Skeletor’s skull, balancing the campy, cartoon-inspired fantasy with believable, realistic characters and environments.
Singapore’s Animation Nation has launched its latest awards call with submissions now open via FilmFreeway for animators from ASEAN member states.
The 6-day event runs August 18-23 at Portland’s OMSI with more than 170 films including 130+ animated films, 30+ stop-motion works, 30+ world premieres, and 3D short with Paul Reubens’ final on-screen performance.
A group of U.S. VFX workers engaged directly by Lucasfilm’s franchise productions has joined the union and will begin negotiations for a first contract.
Best-selling author Mike Bender will write and direct the film about a fart frustrated about always being treated as a joke, with Russell Hollander producing.
