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A Voyage of the Heart

Visits to the people and places of the South Pacific inspired the crew of Disney’s Moana to dig deeper and use every tool at...

Drawing the Battle Lines

Animated documentary 25 April recreates the stories of those who fought the iconic WWI battle that proved definitive for New Zealand and Australia. Last year...

Lyft Hitches a Ride for ‘June’ with Oscar Winner Kahrs

Animation has always been part of the toolbox for advertising, marketing and branding, but in the age of social media those lines are blurring....

Dory, Kubo, KFP3, Moana, Zootopia Nab Annie Feature Noms

The 2017 Annie Awards have announced their nominations, going mainstream in its picks for the best animated feature category. This year's Best Animated Feature nominations...

Open Play

Trolls jumps from a well-known but undefined toy store staple to the big screen with a big splash of color and music via DreamWorks...

Diving In

Henson mixes digital puppetry and animation to grand educational effect for its MIP Junior World Premiere series Splash and Bubbles. Making its world premiere screening...

Finishing Strong

First-time director Rémi Chayé and his French-Danish crew took the time to get the story and look just right for potential awards contender Long...

Ireland Arises

Cartoon Forum honors the studios of The Emerald Isle for their creativity and quality. Animation in Ireland has been booming in recent years, thanks to...

Disney Legend Floyd Norman On Documenting his Life on Film

If you're a knowledgeable fan of Disney animation — and animation in general — you probably already know who Floyd Norman is. A Disney Legend,...

Breaking the Rules

Ryan Quincy ignores the norms of time-travel storytelling in pursuit of character-driven action and humor for Disney XD’s hit Future-Worm! South Park veteran Ryan Quincy...

For the Love of the Art

Quality and creativity are the keys to longevity — and global popularity — for Aardman Animations on its 40th anniversary. Few studios are as beloved...

Ireland Arises

Cartoon Forum honors the studios of The Emerald Isle for their creativity and quality. Animation in Ireland has been booming in recent years, thanks to...

Bulking Up

  Blue Sky Studios takes Scrat into space and threatens the ever-growing cast of heroes of its well-chilled flagship franchise with cosmic-level extinction in Ice...

Puppet Masters

LAIKA again pushes the boundaries for stop-motion and delivers scope, humanity and action in its fourth feature Kubo and the Two Strings. LAIKA has found...

Illumination Runs Wild

The studio mixes stylization and animal reality in its comedic exploration of The Secret Life of Pets. The Secret Life of Pets is as high-concept...

Behind the Shocking Twists of ‘Ultimate Spider-Man’

Superheroes are used to drama — saving the world from cosmic-level threats and mistakenly fighting allies before teaming up to defeat the real villain...

Annecy Exclusive: Talking DreamWorks with Jeffrey Katzenberg

One of the surprise appearances at Annecy 2016 is Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation. Katzenberg was in town to support the studio’s presentations...

Annecy: Aardman’s Peter Lord and David Sproxton

Few studios around the world are as beloved as Aardman Animations, the U.K. stop-motion and Claymation studio behind such hits as Creature Comforts, Wallace...

A Tentacle Spectacle

Pixar digs deep to make a septopus named Hank — arguably the studio’s most technically complicated character ever — a convincing foil in Andrew Stanton’s fish...

NBCU Buys DreamWorks in $4B Deal

Rich buyers bulk up to compete with Disney but no one knows what the post-Katzenberg DreamWorks will look like. The animation industry woke up April...
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