AWN’s latest survey highlights a selection of under-the-radar animated shorts currently making their way through the festival circuit — or newly available online.
Yes, he’s back, at least for one sardonic, sarcastic, but prescient look at some of the highlights – and lowlights – from the upcoming festival by the lake!
ASIFA-Hollywood celebrates the best the industry has to offer at animation’s most prestigious awards ceremony, February 21, 2026, at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
The distinguished director known for his films at the NFB, including 1977 Oscar-winning ‘The Sand Castle’ and 1972 BAFTA-winning ‘Tchou-tchou,’ passed away on May 26 in Montreal.
2 genre powerhouses unite to kick off the event with an adrenaline-charged horror shorts showcase featuring practical FX mayhem, brand-new animation, and on-site exclusives.
The award-winning director’s 5th animated short is inspired by famed Argentine Formula One racing legend Juan Manuel Fangio, who at the time of his retirement in 1958, had won 5 championship titles and held records for most wins, pole positions, podium finishes, and fastest laps.
The background artist on Adult Swim shows like ‘Smiling Friends’ and ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’ discusses his animated short, now in production, a vibrantly stylized reinterpretation of the story of Jesus featuring bipedal animals rather than humans.
Learn about how Sacrebleu, a leading independent production / distribution company, relies on festivals for generating exposure and market awareness for short and feature films, taken from an interview by Chris Donahue, film and TV professor at SCAD and Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning producer, during a Master Class at the recent SCAD Animation Festival in Lacoste, France.
The stop-motion short, based on a poem by Dean Atta and narrated by Jordan Stephens, will debut at Frameline49 that runs June 18-28 in San Francisco.
2 years after their first shorts were released, Sean Godsey and Nic Collins serve up 3 new episodes chronicling the less than stellar exploits of the freelance conqueror who finds slim pickings and many bad days pursuing his profession.
The Brazilian event, which celebrates its 15th edition October 7-12, is accepting submissions for its Competitive Short Film Screening; deadline is June 23.
This year, the campaign, which encourages early cancer detection among adults in Scotland, follows a spirited seagull who discovers a lump on her neck and smartly seeks help right away.
Creator Tim Miller, supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, and designer/director Robert Valley discuss the latest edition of Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning animated short film anthology series that once again delivers a wide selection of funny, frightening, and thoroughly provocative works.
The animation historian, journalist, and festival stalwart talks about her new book that chronicles almost 25 years of unique and colorful adventures, alongside her husband, musician Nik Phelps, crisscrossing the globe on their way to the next industry gathering.
AWN’s latest survey highlights a selection of under-the-radar animated shorts currently making their way through the festival circuit - or newly available online.
Works from Spain, Brazil, and Uruguay were recognized in the 3 main categories at the May 10 in-person gala event in Tenerife recognizing achievements in Ibero-American animation.
Watch it from ‘cover’ to ‘cover’… in partnership with Le Truc, The Condé Nast Creative Marketing Team, and Human, the promotional project celebrates the publication’s 100th anniversary.
With the pilot episode of their webtoon-turned-series debuting May 4 at Comic Con Cape Town, the award-winning Johannesburg studio’s founders, Kabelo Maaka and Dr. Tshepo P. Maaka, continue to focus their animated storytelling on the experiences of women of all ages.
The 2-part animated short series from Torey Strahl and Elena Ridker is set in 2003 on Cape Cade, where 4 horny teens living their beach town dreams who get schooled by a talking seagull.
Studio’s 6-minute 2D short explores mental health with a story of 4 neighbors whose emotional struggles take on the physical forms of creatures they attempt to conceal; world premiere set for May 3 at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
Gillian Jacobs and Jon Glaser join the 2D animated comedy series, greenlit from the network’s Intergalactic Shorts Program, which follows the daily life of a blended multigenerational Korean American family, inspired by the lives of co-creators and executive producers Paul Watling and Kyle Marshall; debuts June 6.
Winners of the creative challenges in animation, VFX, virtual production, and AR/VR to be revealed at the inaugural WAVES Summit running May 1-4 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai.
The feature film project from director Luca Guadagnino and his collaborator, ‘Challengers’ writer Justin Kuritzkes, with Colin Farrell in talks to star, has been shelved due to production scheduling issues.
New animated short anthology series sets in-game launch on May 2, 2 days prior to Disney+ premiere; first entirely ‘Star Wars’-themed Battle Royale Season also launching; from Dave Filoni, show focuses on 2 iconic villains from the galaxy’s criminal underbelly.
The proof-of-concept animated short ‘Mara & Milo: Magic & Mayhem,’ which was created by the team in a matter of weeks, was produced to showcase the artist-directed workflow.
