The Academy honored 16 students across 4 categories, with the animation prizes going to films from Gobelins, ESMA and Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
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.
ASIFA-Hollywood has opened its call for entries and added a Best International Anime Production for TV/Media category; entries close November 30.
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.
The visual effects studio delivered 450 shots on Prime Video’s hit series, including world-building, period environments, train sequence work, and Megawatt effects created in collaboration with ILM.
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.
Viewership increased dramatically after CC0 Studios and The Hive Studio partnered with AI audience simulation platform Chronicle Media to expand the series’ organic reach.
The upcoming adult animated series about a dysfunctional family of bears who go full criminal to stop various villains from destroying their home stars Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Annie Murphy, Elizabeth Hurley and Josh Gad.
Eloi Champagne will lead the July 22 Birds of a Feather session with Jimmy Fournier, covering Gaussian-based animation workflows, hybrid pipelines and production uses from acquisition through delivery, with examples from NFB works in progress and technical explorations involving the NVIDIA Spatial Intelligence Lab and the Dynamic Graphics Project lab at the University of Toronto.
The animation studio is using Flix with Adobe Photoshop to support storyboarding on the Sycamore Studios animated feature set for a 2027 release.
Ric Comline joins as executive creative director, Thierry Levy as executive producer and Sean Cooper as creative director; the London-based trio to focus on expanding advertising and brand work while supporting global episodic, immersive and film projects.
Mmixed-media centerpiece of the ‘Fuck Cancer’ and VML Health’s awareness campaign blends 2D, cut-out, puppetry and live-action to explore 21 different expressions for ‘rubbing one out,’ earning major recognition at the recent New York Festivals Advertising Awards and Cannes Lions.
Distinguished VFX practitioners will be recognized at a September 4 celebration, including 2026 VES Founders Award recipient Susan Zwerman, VES Lifetime Member Jeff Kleiser, Honorary VES Members Sir William Sargent and Scott Stokdyk, VES Fellows Neishaw Ali, Rita Cahill, Barbara Ford Grant, and Susan Thurmond O'Neal, and the 2026 class of VES Hall of Fame inductees Jon Landau, Gerry Anderson, Ishiro Honda, and Tomoyuki Tanaka.
‘Bob’s Burgers,’ ‘Rick and Morty,’ ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Smiling Friends,’ ‘South Park,’ and ‘Star Wars: Visions’ are nominated for Outstanding Animated Program; main awards will be broadcast live on Monday, September 14, on NBC and stream on Peacock – Craft Awards set for September 5-6.
Don Hertzfeldt’s 2D short and the 2D/3D feature from Ervin Han and Raúl García are among the winners at the swelteringly hot and jam packed 50th festival edition that also saw the grand opening of the Cité internationale du cinéma d'animation.
New Spike Lee short takes top prize; ‘Beyond Words’ and ‘18 Months’ also awarded; Production Sessions lineup to feature Wētā FX, Lightstorm, NASA, Pixar, ILM, and Google DeepMind.
4th edition of the program names 5 winners named across Fiction, Non-Fiction, Animation, Student and Future Format categories, selected from a shortlist of 30 films.
Organization’s Animation Educators Forum scholarships support students in completing their education in accredited college-level animation programs; deadline set for August 1.
Organization’s Animation Educators Forum awards support individuals or groups with their research, scholarly activity, or creative projects in animation; deadline set for May 22.
The leading anime brand and world’s largest anime event have announced 7 winning short films from the new competition that are now streaming worldwide.
Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans’ hit musical comedy nabs wins for both Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song, while James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ sequel gets the nod for Best Visual Effects; Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’ named Best Animated Short.
Zaven Najjar’s feature debut ‘Allah Is Not Obliged’ also wins, along with Paris-based independent distributor Les Films du Préau, at the forum’s 28th edition wrapping today in Bordeaux.
‘Andor’ and ‘Severance’ also took home trophies at this past Saturday’s ceremony that celebrated excellence in production design across theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos, and animated feature films.
‘Sinners’ and ‘The Penguin’ also took home trophies at the American Cinema Editors’ ceremony held this past Friday at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
