Since this will be my last blog post in 2016, I wanted to do a yearly recap of what this year has been like. We’ve delved into a lot of this stuff in previous posts, so this will just be a quick overview of the
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has officially announced the winners of the 49th Student Academy Awards competition!A total of 1,796 applications were submitted from 614 colleges and universities around the world.Congratulations to the winning students below! Winning animation students Laika and Nemo
Pixar’s next blog has been on a brief hiatus since Elementary launched last summer, but we’re at it again and there’s lots of exciting news to catch up on! Inside out 2 It’s just a few months away from its release date, and for the
In a blog post published last February with the title “Encouraging ambivalence,” Aurelie Petit asks What remains once the moment of mobilization has passed? Rereading that phrase today, I can’t help but ask myself the same question. I was too young to be in Genoa,
If you want to learn animation in 2026, you have more options than ever before. You can learn 2D animation, 3D animation, stop motion, motion graphics, storyboarding, character animation, or even make your own animated short film from home. You can use free software like
This year at the Toronto International Film Festival one of the big themes was the biographical film. Of the 20 films I saw at the festival, 9 are at least semi-biographical or based on real events. One of the best of this group is from
These few words alone could sum up the five films Cordell Barker made at the NFB. Five characters who are not always the protagonists, but who invariably act as disruptive factors, setting things in motion and sometimes serving as a point of contrast. Let’s take
Disney+ has officially given the green light to a new Darkwing Duck Animated series with the voices of Mark Hamill, Seth Rogen, Lizzy Caplan and Lilimar. The show, which first debuted in 1991, follows the adventures of Darkwing Duck, the iconic alter ego of Drake
Hello [the name is not important, this isn’t really about one guy], As an artist who writes about the need for credit and compensation for my work, I was surprised to receive your message. It’s impossible for me to know if you yourself are writing
From the daily cartoonist. Thirty-something members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists met in Sacramento this past weekend to discuss the state of the profession and the future of the association. AAEC President Marc Murphy led a discussion about whether the group should change