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‘VeggieTales’ Co-Creator Mike Nawrocki Uncovers the Secrets of His New Show, ‘Dead Sea Squirrels,’ Premiering Feb. 14

An unlikely pair of disciples are ready to make their animated debut next month, when Christian family content platform Minno launches Dead Sea Squirrels....

BAFTA Nominations: ‘Wallace & Gromit,’ ‘Flow,’ ‘Inside Out 2,’ ‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ Make the Cut

Final nominees for the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards were announced this morning. Aardman Animations’ Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (directed by Nick Park...

Numerous Fundraisers Set Up for Animation Professionals Who Lost Their Homes in the L.A. Fires

This past week’s Los Angeles County fires have taken a huge toll on the lives of many of the members of the animation and...

‘Magic Candies’ Producer Takashi Washio Shares the Sweet Surprises of His Oscar-Shortlisted Short

A loner kid opens up a new social reality when he discovers that the colorful candies he has bought give him the ability to...

The ‘Gleeful Beasts’ Team Discusses Their Chimeras of Sketch Comedy, CG Puppetry & Pure Joy

Is the world ready for a new group of hilarious animated monsters? The team behind the new short-form comedy series Gleeful Beasts hope so. The CG-animated...

Gints Zilbalodis’ ‘Flow’ Takes Home the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature

Gints Zilbalodis' acclaimed feature Flow was the winner of the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature on Sunday night. The five other nominees in...

‘StuGo’ Creator Ryan Gillis Introduces Us to His Animated Lab Rats

Disney Channel is kicking off the new year with a bright, fast-moving and utterly entertaining show titled StuGo. Created by Ryan Gillis (The Wonderful...

Loïc Espuche Explores the Horrors & Thrills of a First Kiss in the Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Yuck!’

As in real life, many of the kids featured in director Loïc Espuche’s Oscar-shortlisted and Annie-nominated short Yuck! (Beurk!) believe that a kiss between...

Children’s Media Veteran Michael Carrington Announces Retirement

Animation and children’s TV executive Michael Carrington has announced his retirement after decades of trailblazing work. His career spanned decades of exec producing award-winning...

Animated Blockbusters ‘Inside Out 2,’ ‘Moana 2,’ & ‘Despicable Me 4’ Dominated the 2024 Box Office

The estimated total box office numbers for 2024 are in, and Pixar, Disney, Universal/Illumination have emerged as the top winners with Inside Out 2,...

Fantastic Voyage: Jason Hand Talks About His Creative Journey as One of the Directors of ‘Moana 2’

As the year draws to a close, Disney’s Moana 2 continues to bring a record number of family audiences to theaters. This past week,...

Linda Lavin, Tony-Winning Broadway Actress and Star of TV Sitcom ‘Alice,’ Dies at 87

 Tony-winning and two-time Emmy-nominated stage, TV and screen actress Linda Lavin passed away on Sunday in Los Angeles from complications from lung cancer. She...

‘Mufasa’ Battles ‘Sonic 3’ for the Holiday Weekend Box-Office Top Spot

The mighty lion and the speedy hedgehog continued their box office battle over the weekend as Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King and Paramount’s Sonic...

Bach to Basics: Why Anna Samo Used Toilet Paper to Animate Her Acclaimed Short, ‘The Wild-Tempered Clavier’

Great artists often take advantage of the unusual challenges in life. Take, for example, the case of Anna Samo, the resourceful director of the...

Paramount+ Drops ‘Doug,’ ‘Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness’ and Several Other Animated Nick Shows

Animated Nickelodeon favorites such as Doug, My Life As a Teenage Robot, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and The Penguins of Madagascar are...

Don Hertzfeldt’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘ME’ Serves Up More Profound Enigmas with Music

Almost 30 years ago, two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt burst onto the animation scene with his clever stick-figure short, Ah, L’Amour. The indie helmer...

In Memoriam: Remembering the Many Animation & VFX Greats We Lost This Year

We said goodbye this year to many brilliant women and men who devoted their lives and talents to advancing the art of animation and...

Daisuke ‘Dice’ Tsutsumi Discusses the Stop-Motion Magic of His Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Bottle George’

Ten years ago, Japanese-born director-producer-illustrator Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi’s The Dam Keeper was nominated for a Best Animated Short Oscar and received a slew of...

Artistic Witnesses of War: ‘Porcelain War’s Creative Team on Using Animation in Their Acclaimed Documentary

Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev’s acclaimed documentary Porcelain War centers on three Ukrainian artists who choose to stay in their country despite the Russian...

‘Phineas and Ferb’ Storyboard Artist Nadine Promes García Discusses the Ups and Downs of Life in Animation

Every now and then, we offer interviews with up-and-coming animation professionals to find out more about how they landed in animation, what they love...
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