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Awards

Six Animated Movies Are Nominated for the 2025 Golden Globes Awards

Ramin Zahed - December 9, 2024

This morning, the nominees for the 2025 Golden Globes were announced. Six titles will be competing for the coveted Best Animated Feature award on...

Features

‘Flow’ Selected as Best Animated Feature by the L.A. Film Critics Assoc. and the European Film Academy

Ramin Zahed - December 8, 2024

Everyone seems to love Flow, Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis’ post-apocalyptic cat movie. The well-received feature picked up the Best Animated Feature prize at Saturday’s...

Features

Daffy & Porky to the Rescue! Director Peter Browngardt Looks Back at the Making of ‘The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes...

Ramin Zahed - December 7, 2024

It was one of the sweet surprises of 2024. Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, two beloved animated characters that were first introduced in 1935...

Shorts

Director Kris Kelly Casts Light on the Story Behind His Award-Winning Short, ‘A Wind and the Shadow’

Ramin Zahed - December 5, 2024

Writer and director Kris Kelly’s acclaimed new short A Wind and the Shadow tells a story of resilience and a mother’s love as she...

Festivals & Events

L.A. Animation Festival Announces 2024 Shorts Lineup and Special Fleischer Studios Showcase

Ramin Zahed - November 30, 2024

Max Fleischer Fans are in for a treat when the annual Los Angeles Animation Festival raises its curtains again next week. The event, which...

‘Moana 2’ Storms In With Record-Breaking $28 Million Thanksgiving Day Box Office

Ramin Zahed - November 29, 2024

The folks at Disney have plenty to be thankful this weekend as Moana 2 managed to break all previous Thanksgiving Day records with an...

Animated People

How Exec Producers Tom Rogers and Rachel Ruderman Prepared The New Disney Holiday Treat, ‘Mickey and the Very Many Christmases’

Ramin Zahed - November 27, 2024

A new Mickey Mouse Christmas adventure always makes the holidays a bit brighter. This year, Disney Jr. is premiering the half-hour special Mickey and...

Shorts

Animating a Real-Life Tragedy: ‘The 21’ Director Tod Polson Looks Back at the Making of his Memorable Short

Ramin Zahed - November 26, 2024

Tod Polson’s powerful new animated short, The 21, chronicles that story of the Coptic men who were brutally murdered by ISIS in Libya in...

Shorts

Global Animation Studio The Hive Buzzes with Exciting New Projects

Ramin Zahed - November 25, 2024

Founded in 2010 by visionary producer Amit Russell Gicelter as an animation hub in Tel Aviv, The Hive is a world-renowned studio that specializes...

Features

Watch: DreamWorks’ Super Cool Con-Animals are Back in New ‘Bad Guys 2’ Trailer

Ramin Zahed - November 22, 2024

There’s no such a thing as one last heist! DreamWorks’ animated band of hilarious thieves will be back to their old ways in this...

Streaming

First Look at ‘Esther,’ the Intriguing New 2D-Animated Show from Sacrebleu/Rudo/TakeFive Productions

Ramin Zahed - November 22, 2024

Founded by Ron Dyens in 1999, the acclaimed French company Sacrebleu Productions is best known for animated features such as Gints Zilbalodis’s award-winning 2024...

Features

Gints Zilbalodis’ Catapocalypse Movie ‘Flow’ Nabs an Almost Purrrfect Score of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes

Ramin Zahed - November 22, 2024

A ragtag group of animals, led by a charismatic black cat try to survive in a flooded, post-apocalyptic world in Gints Zilbadolis’ acclaimed movie...

Shorts

‘A Crab in the Pool’ Directors Jean-Sébastien Hamel & Alexandra Myotte Dive into Life’s Deep End in Their Award-Winning Short

Ramin Zahed - November 22, 2024

***This article was written for the January '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 346)*** A teenage girl and her younger brother deal with the boring details of...

Features

Director Kristina Dufková Tackles a Weighty Issue in Her Acclaimed Stop-Motion Feature ‘Living Large’

Ramin Zahed - November 20, 2024

Director Kristina Dufková’s charming stop-motion and 2D-animated feature Living Large has quickly become one of the popular underdog projects of the year. After winning...

Shorts

‘The Brown Dog’ Directors Take Us Along the Creative Journey of Their Award-Winning Short

Ramin Zahed - November 18, 2024

A despondent night watchman named Nobody goes in search of a mysterious dog in the evocative short The Brown Dog, co-directed by Nadia Hallgren...

Animated People

‘Curiosa’ Director Tessa Moult-Milewska Takes Us Behind the Scenes of Her Acclaimed Short

Ramin Zahed - November 15, 2024

Tessa Moult-Milewska’s Curiosa is a beautifully animated stop-motion short that centers on a young woman who learns a bit more than she asked for...

Shorts

Director Zhang Xu Zhan Shares His Vision for the Prize-Winning Short ‘Compound Eyes of Tropical’

Ramin Zahed - November 14, 2024

Taiwanese director ZHANG Xu Zhan’s animated short Compound Eyes of Tropical is inspired by a Southeast Asian folk tale about a mouse and a...

Shorts

Director Fish Wang Discusses How He Brought His ‘Ghost of the Dark Path’ to Animated Life

Ramin Zahed - November 13, 2024

Fish Wang’s previous animated projects Gold Fish and Red Tail proved to be festival favorites in years past. The director is back on the...

Features

‘The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland’ Producer Ruth Fielding & Director Peter Baynton Discuss Their Magical Holiday Movie

Ramin Zahed - November 13, 2024

***This article was written for the January '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 346)*** What would Santa find if he went down the same rabbit hole that...

Features