Animation World Network

Exclusive clip: 'Orange Cat Inspires' from Kid Koala's dialogue-free animated feature 'Space Cadet,' adapted from his 2011 graphic novel and scored with Karen O and Emilíana Torrini; in select theaters November 13. bit.ly/4yJHfEo #Animation #AnimationWorld

There's a week left on the Kickstarter for 'Muffin Mumma,' a handmade, no-AI stop-motion preschool series from A+C Studios with no broadcaster attached: £6,000 by November 4, all or nothing. bit.ly/4sBejgn #Animation #AnimationWorld

Netflix, Sony Pictures, DNEG and Framestore are hiring: 31 new #animation and #VFX openings in today's AWN Jobs Roundup. Standouts include an Effects Supervisor at Netflix Animation Studios and compositors in Brisbane and Mumbai. bit.ly/4zcmq5B #AnimationWorld #VFXWorld

Rhythm & Hues co-founder John Hughes, whose studio won #VFX Oscars for 'Babe,' 'The Golden Compass' and 'Life of Pi,' gets the 2027 Genie Honorary Award January 20 as PIDS Enghien opens in France. bit.ly/4BrnDHF #VFXWorld

Framestore has released its #VFX breakdown for 'The Walking Dead: Dead City' Season 3, rebuilding Manhattan as it looked in 2010 before destroying it, down to walkers falling from a fully CG Empire State Building. bit.ly/3W5tqCM #VFXWorld

Blinkink director James Papper's 'The Last 1%' for Supercell's 'Clash Royale' is a live-action/CGI Halloween film built to feel like old-school stop-motion, with a nod to 'The Nightmare Before Christmas.' bit.ly/4i7Xmqj #Animation #AnimationWorld

The Gotham Group and Toonstar, the studio behind 'StEvEn & Parker,' will produce up to 12 original animated kids' series from Gotham's roster of storytellers, launching on YouTube and other direct-to-audience platforms. bit.ly/4zOhYtA #Animation #AnimationWorld

David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz are offering eligible Skydance employees voluntary buyouts ahead of merger layoffs, and moving the newly combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to 5 days a week in the office. bit.ly/4zd4isl #Animation #AnimationWorld

Rodeo FX has released a #VFX breakdown for a new FM Insurance spot from director Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, showing how its Paris team built the film's flowing metal ribbon entirely in 3D. bit.ly/48f55Nn #VFXWorld

DNEG has released a progression reel for 'Entergalactic,' Kid Cudi and Kenya Barris' Netflix special, taking shots from early references and layouts through character #animation to the painterly final frames. bit.ly/3Ud12Op #AnimationWorld

Glitch Productions has greenlit a full 8-episode season of 'Gameoverse,' Ross O'Donovan's video game-world action-comedy, after a pilot that has drawn more than 31 million views. Episode 2 premieres May 21, 2027. bit.ly/4euO8SE #Animation #AnimationWorld

Brad Bird and LAIKA's Travis Knight will receive Monolith Awards at Infinity Festival Hollywood, which also screens 'Ray Gunn' and 'Tangles' with Seth Rogen and adds Mel Brooks to its ASIFA Showcase, November 12-15. bit.ly/4ilqlpm #Animation #AnimationWorld

Eric Bauza, the 3-time Children's & Family Emmy winner who gave Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck their modern voice, has died at 46. bit.ly/48kgVFW #Animation #AnimationWorld

AdHoc Studio marks 1 year of 'Dispatch' with a free update: play it through its storyboard animatics, with more than 16 hours of cast and crew commentary including Aaron Paul and Laura Bailey; Android and iOS December 9. bit.ly/4zcxqA2 #Animation #AnimationWorld

'The Simpsons' tips its hat to 'The Nightmare Before Christmas.' John Harvatine IV on building the #stopmotion 'Treehouse of Horror XXXVII' opener at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, and Tim Long on writing Treehouse No. 37. bit.ly/4Bno0mF #Animation #AnimationWorld

Nickelodeon's 'Teeny Mutant Ninja Turtles' sends Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey to elementary school on Nick Jr.'s YouTube channel. Head writers Maxwell Beaudry and Francisco Paredes on 'kids, not chibis' and slime weapons. bit.ly/4BiCR1z #Animation #AnimationWorld

Territory Group, parent of Territory Studio and Cantina Creative, has launched Lux Meridian, an AI-native film and TV studio developing features, series and animated films with Adobe's Firefly Foundry custom models. bit.ly/4yIAZwL #Animation #AnimationWorld

Leah Nelson's hand-drawn 'Tangles,' from Sarah Leavitt's memoir of her mother's Alzheimer's, has a trailer ahead of a qualifying run next month. Abbi Jacobson and Julia Louis-Dreyfus lead the cast; Seth Rogen produces. bit.ly/4ig7I6j #Animation #AnimationWorld

Amazon MGM Studios is developing an animated feature based on #GameOfPets the new middle-grade series from 'The Bad Guys' author Aaron Blabey; 'Lilo & Stitch' producer Rideback and Foundation Media Partners produce. bit.ly/3WruyAx #Animation #AnimationWorld

Leah Nelson's 'Tangles' won the Grand Jury Prize at Animation Is Film 2026; Louis Clichy's 'Iron Boy' took the Special Jury and Audience Awards, and 'Paper Trail' and 'Please' led the shorts. bit.ly/4eK4ozd #Animation #AnimationWorld

Just in time for Halloween, hit horror podcast 'Radio Rental' has released 'Laura of the Woods,' a 10-minute LEGO-inspired #StopMotion short by Twisted Bricks creator Kristian Stenslie, built by hand frame by frame. bit.ly/4sln3qN #Animation #AnimationWorld

Hugh Laurie and Faith Delaney lead the voice cast of 'Cloud Girl,' Philippe Riche's French #animation feature about a girl, a magical quill and a talking guinea pig; Viva Kids brings it to select U.S. theaters January 8, 2027. bit.ly/4Bk7sfn #AnimationWorld

'Avatar' production designer Dylan Cole on turning James Cameron's "blurry idea" into finished paintings, virtual sets and photoreal shots with Wētā FX, and the temp fish that wouldn't go away. He's at LightBox Expo October 23-25. bit.ly/3UdKYvB #VFX #VFXWorld

Andrew Osmond caught LAIKA's 'Wildwood' at its London Film Festival world premiere. Travis Knight's stop-motion epic sets new visual precedents for the medium. bit.ly/47wvvdn #Animation #AnimationWorld

Former Pixar story artist Connie He on 'Dear Upstairs Neighbors,' her @googledeepmind.bsky.social short: hand-drawn #animation, custom Veo models as the renderer, roller-skating octopuses and a death metal climax. bit.ly/4jDapkO #AnimationWorld

Chef José Andrés hosts Autodesk's new series 'Made to Make,' and episode 1 goes inside Warner Bros. Pictures Animation's 'The Cat in the Hat' with writer-directors Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja. Film opens November 6. bit.ly/4ssuXik #Animation #AnimationWorld

Warner Bros. Animation's Peter Girardi and Rick Morales on why they held 'Batman: Knightfall' back for years, matching the '90s comics' ink, and the Bat-suit coming in 'Knightquest'; Part 1 is out digitally. bit.ly/3Wr19GJ #Animation #AnimationWorld

Prime the Animation! returns to Valencia October 24-31 with 58 shorts from 28 countries by emerging #animation talent, opening with a live-scored 100th-anniversary screening of Lotte Reiniger's 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed.' bit.ly/47vMqwC #AnimationWorld

Electronic Arts is closing BioWare, the studio behind 'Mass Effect' and 'Dragon Age,' and ending early work on the next 'Mass Effect' as it cuts about 400 jobs, less than three months after its $55 billion take-private deal. bit.ly/3UJIVQe #Animation #AnimationWorld

Three weeks left: animated shorts finished after October 1, 2025 can enter ITFS 2027 through November 15. The festival runs April 27–May 2, and its Grand Prix winner qualifies for the Academy Awards longlist. bit.ly/4Bmx2jF #Animation #AnimationWorld

KeenTools' new KeenFace builds MetaHuman-ready 3D heads from ordinary photos, with 4K PBR maps, automated de-hairing and an API for #VFX, game and avatar pipelines. Pay-as-you-go, with free starter credits. bit.ly/4k9LBkq #Animation #AnimationWorld #VFXWorld

Alisha Weir voices the Tooth Fairy in 'Nightling,' Qvisten Animation's first English-language original feature, directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen and 'Nemi' creator Lise Myhre. Dee Snider and Miriam Margolyes co-star. bit.ly/4yx4dhR #Animation #AnimationWorld

Ranbir Kapoor is Rama and Yash is Ravana in the new trailer for Sony Pictures' Ramayana: Rise of a Legend, from Namit Malhotra and DNEG. Nitesh Tiwari directs; Hans Zimmer and A.R. Rahman score. Opens November 5. bit.ly/487ET7j #VFX #VFXWorld

Coolabi, home of Warrior Cats and Beast Quest, is now Four Trees Media, named for the Clans' meeting place in the books. A Warrior Cats CG #animation series is in production for Disney+ and Tencent Video. bit.ly/488ubgO #AnimationWorld

ILM, Netflix, Blizzard and WildBrain are hiring: 18 new #animation and #VFX openings in today's AWN Jobs Roundup. ILM wants animators in London and Sydney; Netflix Animation Studios needs an environment modeler in Vancouver. bit.ly/4zNVBEI #AnimationWorld #VFXWorld

A 25-year-old Tom Hanks on Zemeckis' monitor six frames after the camera shot the 67-year-old actor. Brahma AI CTO Jo Plaete on the Emmy-winning face replacement tech behind 'Here,' 'Furiosa' and 'F1' – and what it means for #VFX artists. bit.ly/47DSxPt #VFXWorld

Sauron forges the One Ring and Middle-earth goes to war in the 'Rings of Power' Season 3 trailer. Morfydd Clark and Charlie Vickers return, with DNEG, ILM and Rodeo FX leading the #VFX. Nov. 11 on Prime Video. bit.ly/3WEDcM8 #Animation #AnimationWorld #VFXWorld

Concept artists rarely get the credit. Rachel Meinerding and Nicole Hendrix Herman on how the Concept Art Awards work: blind judging by peers, no AI allowed. Oct. 24 at LightBox Expo, honoring Yoshitaka Amano and Eyvind Earle. bit.ly/4z3WPfa #Animation #AnimationWorld

'The Wingfeather Saga' S4 arrives today on Angel, adapting the book Andrew Peterson calls his most personal. Peterson, Kevin McNally, Romy Fay, Alkaio Thiele and Henry Ian Cusick talk #animation, grief and faith with AWN. bit.ly/4zFxF6i #AnimationWorld

Baby Shark meets Dr. Seuss Babies in two new Halloween videos, the first crossover between Pinkfong's shark family and baby versions of the Cat in the Hat, Grinch, Lorax and friends, on the Pinkfong and Dr. Seuss YouTube channels. bit.ly/4i2aXOs #Animation #AnimationWorld

Icarus, the animated feature debut of former Pixar animator Carlo Vogele, is on Blu-ray from MediaOCD. The 2022 film retells the Greek myth through Icarus' friendship with a young minotaur and was Luxembourg's 2023 Oscar entry. bit.ly/4dSTCqa #Animation #AnimationWorld

Kylie Minogue, Jonathan Groff and Catherine Tate join Cynthia Erivo in Bad Fairies, the #animation musical from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith. Minogue voices Clowder the Cat Witch. In theaters May 21, 2027. bit.ly/3U9YD6T #AnimationWorld

Ankama's Welsh & Shedar, a 12-episode series set in the DOFUS world and made with Japan's Studio Massket, premieres November 5 on the new Krosmoz YouTube channel. Codes hidden in the episodes unlock in-game quests. bit.ly/3WmCW4i #Animation #AnimationWorld

Moho 14.5 SHOWTIME turns rigged characters into live performers: webcam face tracking, gamepad input and live physics drive existing rigs, and a new virtual webcam sends them into streaming software. Free for Moho 14 owners. bit.ly/4zJiGZ0 #Animation #AnimationWorld

Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Zoic Studios and ILM are hiring: 79 new #animation and #VFX openings in today's AWN Jobs Roundup. ILM alone is staffing up in London, Sydney and Mumbai. bit.ly/4zFEbKk #AnimationWorld #VFXWorld

The Sisters Grimm showrunner Amy Higgins, author Michael Buckley, and cast members Ariel Winter, Leah Newman, Laraine Newman, and Billy Harris talk about the hand-drawn Apple TV series' new season, now streaming. #animationworld bit.ly/4zHqgmZ

Super Bowl LXI goes to a galaxy far, far away: @espn.com's Star Wars Funday Football, a real-time #animation altcast, turns every play into animated avatars and 'Star Wars' characters, with Anthony Daniels as C-3PO. Feb. 14 on Disney+. bit.ly/47r66BM #AnimationWorld

They made it back from space. Now the ocean has them. Lionsgate dropped the 'Above the Below' trailer: Idris Elba co-directs and stars as one of three astronauts stranded on the ocean floor, oxygen running out. In theaters Dec. 4. bit.ly/4shGpNy #VFX #VFXWorld

Dan Lin is out as head of film at @netflix.com, days after layoffs that cut about 1,000 jobs. His 2½-year run saw #animation hits 'Swapped' (144.9M views) and 'KPop Demon Hunters,' Netflix's most-watched film ever. bit.ly/4hXmCiV #AnimationWorld

@netflix.com dropped the 'In Waves' trailer: Phuong Mai Nguyen's #animation feature debut follows a shy teen who falls for a surfer despite his fear of the water. Will Sharpe and Stephanie Hsu star. In theaters Nov. 27, streaming Dec. 11. bit.ly/4i9Th3w #AnimationWorld