3 Animated Documentaries from NFB's Alambic Lab Go Online August 17
The under 5-minute shorts were made during a 6-month paid lab for emerging filmmakers run by the French Animation Studio, chosen from 75 submissions by a 6-person jury.
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Watch: Final 'Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi' Trailer Drops
It’s almost here… Lucasfilm and Production I.G's 8-episode limited anime series, part of the new 'Star Wars: Visions Presents' banner for long-form stories, premieres August 5 exclusively on Disney+ and Hulu.
‘GOAT’ Director Tyree Dillihay Joins VIEW Conference 2026 Lineup
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.
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Oscar-Winner Glen Keane Airlifted from Arizona Mountain After Medical Emergency
The famed ‘Dear Basketball’ director was safely rescued from Mummy Mountain in Paradise Valley after becoming ill during a family hike.
PFCAT Releases Expansive, Stop-Motion Filled 2026 Festival Lineup
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.
Utopai Studios Developing ‘The Most Serious Fart’ Animated Feature
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.
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Higgsfield Debuts ‘Kök Börü’ Showcasing Hybrid Human-AI Animation Pipeline
Premiering at SIGGRAPH 2026, the new 15-minute animated short, a historical drama rooted in Central Asian folklore, was created by a team of 12 in 2 weeks on the Higgsfield platform powered by NVIDIA.
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Nina Gantz’s ‘Wander to Wonder’ Now Available on YouTube
The BAFTA- and Annie-winning hybrid animated short follows 3 miniature TV performers left alone in a studio after their creator’s death.
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NFB Brings Gaussian Splatting Animation Session to SIGGRAPH
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.
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Framestore Adds 3 Senior Leaders to Design Studio
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.
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Watch: Dirty Work’s ‘Beat Cancer Off’ Award-Winning Animated Short
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.
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‘Pizza Delivery’ Trailer Premieres Ahead of Animated Short Release
Luah Garcia’s film, a collaboration with Studio Chifrezz featuring an original soundtrack by Kabuki Sonic, begs the question: What could possibly go wrong when a pizza delivery bee, an olive, a dramatic moth and a sun that’s been binge-studying animation pitches for months cross paths?
DreamWorks’ ‘Forgotten Island’ Writers/Directors Join VIEW Conference 2026
Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado will take the stage to share production insights and stories surrounding their new original animated comedy adventure hitting theaters on September 25; event runs October 12-16 in Turin, Italy.
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63 Shorts to Compete at OIAF 2026
The final set of competitive short films in the Animated Short, Commissioned, Student and Canadian Student categories was selected from a record 3,026 total entries; the festival's 50th anniversary edition runs September 23-27 in Ottawa.
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BBC Studios Launches ‘LEGO Bluey Shorts’
All-new 10-episode animated short-form series recreates iconic ‘Bluey’ moments in LEGO brick form; first episode debuts on YouTube and Bluey.TV.
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‘Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi’ Trailer Debuts at Anime Expo
Lucasfilm and Production I.G’s 8-episode limited anime series, part of the new ‘Star Wars: Visions Presents’ banner for long-form stories, will premiere August 5 exclusively on Disney+ and Hulu.
Aardman at 50: Inside the Clay, Felt, and Fingerprints
From Morph and ‘Wallace & Gromit’ to ‘Shaun the Sheep’ and ‘Let’s Go Timmy!’ the iconic British stop-motion studio’s enduring appeal comes from plasticine, eccentric characters, visible imperfections, and a process that still prizes the human touch.
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‘BLISS: Beyond the Edge of Time’ Sets June 30 World Premiere at Taipei Film Festival
‘Love, Death + Robots’ meets the I-Ching in the feature-length sci-fi anthology; 6 original animated visions of humanity’s future from 6 independent Taiwan animation studios explore fate, identity and choice in a future where technology collides with the fragile essence of humanity.
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'Paper Trail,' 'The Violinist' Take Top Awards at Annecy 2026
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.
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Mackinnon & Saunders, LRG Media Partner on ‘SMALL: A Musical Fable’ Feature
The Manchester-based stop-motion animation studio will produce the animated musical, inspired by Aesop’s fables and based on the Off Broadway and Off West End musical ‘The Mouse Queen.’
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‘Apart’ Wins Best in Show at SIGGRAPH 2026 Computer Animation Festival
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.
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Hisko Hulsing Talks ‘Danse Macabre’
In an expansive and intimate interview with Johannes Wolters, the ‘Undone’ and ‘Junkyard’ director discusses his new animated short, premiering this week in Annecy, an intense visual exploration of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Allegro from his 10th Symphony, based on 79 original oil paintings.
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Tribeca-Winning Animated Short ‘Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank’ Released
Watch Wesley Wang’s 3D indie film about a husband-and-wife rabbits’ armed resistance against a ruthlessly monopolized carrot supply that reached 10 million views across platforms within 24 hours of its YouTube release.
Two Short Anime Trips: ‘Milky Subway’ and ‘Nezumikozo Jirokichi’
Columnist Andrew Osmond looks at two very different shorter works which are now available to stream.
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Hungary Brings 5 Competition Films, 7 Pitch Projects to Annecy 2026
Hungarian animation studios, producers and creators head back to the festival and MIFA with a broad film and project presence spanning shorts, series, and international co-productions under HAPA and National Film Institute Hungary support.
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