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As awards season is coming down to the wire for this year’s competing short films, we now learn of a new, upcoming short that may well be a 2015 standout. […]

Pixel Veil Debuts Trailer for ‘The Alchemist’s Letter’ Short Film

The cover for the newly released Nocturna simply does not do the film justice. What at first seems to be an unassuming foreign animated film, is actually a very charming story about a boy […]

[REVIEW] ‘Nocturna’

With under two weeks to go until the 68th British Academy Film Awards, it’s time to take a look at the nominees for Best Animated Film and Best British Short Animation. […]

BAFTA Nominations for Best Animated Film & British Short Animation

After last reporting on the project back in September of last year, Disney has dropped a surprise cast announcement today concerning one of their forthcoming live-action projects. Deadline (who just […]

Emma Watson Joins Disney’s Live-action ‘Beauty and the Beast’ as Belle

Welcome to another installment in the What You Missed series. For those uninitiated, this is a series of news stories that fell off our radar during the 2014 year in […]

What You Missed: Mikros Image’s ‘Mune’ Trailer Unveiled

Welcome to another installment in the What You Missed series. For those uninitiated, this is a series of news stories that fell off our radar during the 2014 year […]

What You Missed: Cartoon Saloon Adapting ‘The Breadwinner’ as Their Next Film

I am of the opinion that the best fairy tales and fables we grow up with teach and horrify in equal measure. You don’t even need to look at the […]

[CLASSIC REVIEW] Watership Down: “My Heart Has Joined the Thousand”

Over the last few weeks, Pixar released a set of four new stills from its upcoming animated feature Inside Out. The stills, mainly featuring Joy, give a new impression of what […]

Pixar’s ‘Inside Out': Four New Stills

Cartoons of the modern age have learned a thing or two about telling stories to people raised in a pop culture-saturated youth. The creators of these shows are aware […]

Bite-sized Show, Bite-sized Review: ‘Bee and Puppycat’, “Food” and “Farmer”

It came as no surprise to anyone that Disney and Lucasfilm Animation’s Strange Magic was already deemed the worst animated film of 2015. It should come as no surprise that […]

‘Strange Magic’ Debuts at #7, Flopping Spectacularly

From sites such as Screen Rant, we learn that an animated feature film based on The Jetsons is in development. The Jetsons was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that aired from 1962-1963 […]

Animated ‘ The Jetsons’ Film in the Works

GKIDS and Cinedigm have been doing a wonderful job of choosing amazing foreign animated films for US distribution for which those of us with mainstream fatigue are incredibly grateful. However, […]

[REVIEW] ‘Welcome to the Space Show’

Strange Magic is one of those movies that you walk into with minimal expectation; maybe the trailer was not impressive, maybe the soundtrack did not quite draw you in, but it’s […]

[REVIEW] Strange Magic – Too Strange for Any Magic

Welcome to another installment in the What You Missed series. To recap, this is a series of news stories that fell off our radar during the 2014 year in animation. […]

What You Missed: ‘Usagi Yojimbo’ Stop-Motion Short + Feature Film in Development

Announced at the recent Television Critics Association press tour, DC comics will be expanding its television world to include Vixen, an African native and member of the Justice League International. […]

DC Comics to Premiere ‘Vixen’ Animated Series this Fall, Set in the Arrow” & Flash Universe

Star vs. the Forces of Evil is a new show from Disney about a magical princess from another dimension who fights evil with her human sidekick, Marco. The series debuted […]

Recap & Review of New Disney Channel Series ‘Star vs. the Forces of Evil’ (S1E1)

Independent filmmakers Mark and Jay Duplass (Cyrus, The Skeleton Twins, The Mindy Project) are tossing their mumblecore style into the animated ring with Animals, which is set to premiere its […]

Duplass Brothers to Premiere ‘Animals’ at Sundance; Features Ennui, Shameless Pigeons

Studio Ghibli fans, you can rejoice for possibly the very last time. GKIDS has announced that it will be releasing and dubbing into English, Studio Ghibli’s When Marnie Was There in North America […]

GKIDS to Release Studio Ghibli’s ‘ When Marnie Was There’ in North America

Yesterday, we announced that DreamWorks is struggling, cutting back on the number of films it makes while closing a major studio and laying off 500 employees. The studio is currently in the […]

‘How to Train Your Dragon 3′ Delayed Again as DreamWorks Struggles

BREAKING: DreamWorks just announced that it will be shutting down one of its main studios: PDI DreamWorks, which is located in Redwood City, California. This shut down will begin immediately. […]

[BREAKING] DreamWorks Shutting Down PDI/DreamWorks Studio

Anyone who’s a fan of DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians may be familiar with this name: William Joyce. The film in particular is based on his Guardians of Childhood […]

New Release Dates for William Joyce’s ‘Guardians’ Books

NBC’s television show Constantine is now accompanied by a stop-motion webseries on DC Entertainment’s YouTube channel. The new animated shorts are entitled John Con Noir and will run just a little over three minute an […]

DC Introduces ‘Constantine’ Animated Webseries

Gravity Falls fans rejoice! Alex Hirsch, creator and showrunner of Gravity Falls, tweeted Saturday that the show would be returning on February 16 with the episode, “Northwest Mansion Mystery”. Judging […]

Season 2 of ‘Gravity Falls’ Returns on February 16

It’s been a while since we’ve reported anything about Illumination Entertainment’s Untitled Pets Movie, one of two Illumination films set for 2016. So it’s about time we break that silence […]

Illumination’s ‘Untitled Pets Movie’ Now Has a Title (Sort of) + Cast Additions

Podcasts

We’re continuing with our Mice & Rats podcast series with rag-to-riches story, Disney’s 1950 classic Cinderella! Highlights Nerdy Couch Discussion: Why are Cinderella, Snow White and Aurora seen as “weak” […]

Animation Addicts 85: Cinderella – Mason Dubs

Some great news and some sad news for Episode 25. First, this is the last episode with Whitney Grace as the host, but she will be forming her own podcast […]

Episode 25: Interviews with Jim Cummings and Carlos Alazraqui

Welcome to the Animation Addicts Best of 2014 show! This episode is our celebration of the best that 2014 had to offer in animation and the Animation Addicts podcast. Highlights […]

Animation Addicts 84 – Best of 2014 Show

For the annual Christmas episode of the Animation Addicts Podcast, the Rotoscopers review the 1983 short Mickey’s Christmas Carol. Highlights Main Discussion: Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) One of many adaptations of Dicken’s Christmas […]

Animation Addicts 83: Mickey’s Christmas Carol – They’re Just Actors

Disney Legend, Glen Keane, takes a moment out of his very busy schedule to talk to Mason and Chelsea about his new short, Duet! Highlights Intro of Glen Keane and […]

Animation Addicts 082: Interview with Glen Keane – ‘Duet’

The Rotoscopers continue with their Mice & Rats podcast series by reviewing one of Pixar’s most critically acclaimed films: Ratatouille. Highlights Main Discussion: Ratatouille (2007) First thoughts and recollections of the film. Chelsea can’t […]

Episode 81: Ratatouille – Da Brad Bird

Once again Athena Studios makes a featured stop on the Animation Interviews Podcast to discuss their latest project. While they’ll be working on Auntie Claus, the newest stop-motion Christmas special, […]

Episode 24: Interview with Jon V. Peters and Kat Alioshin of Athena Studios

We review Disney’s newest animated feature, the superhero film that everyone loves: Big Hero 6. Highlights Main Discussion: Big Hero 6 (2014) Impressions from our screenings and Morgan’s experience from the Big […]

Episode 80: Big Hero 6 – Don’t Even Compare It to Frozen!

For the next film in our ‘Mice & Rats’ series, we cover Don Bluth’s 1986 mouse film An American Tail. Highlights More stories from Chelsea! Main Discussion: An American Tail (1986) A little history of […]

Episode 79: An American Tail – How Many Bands Have a Thunder Tube?

¡Hola mis amigos! Hoy nos celebramos el Día de los Muertos. Today we are having a belated Day of the Dead celebration. The Day of the Dead is a holiday […]

Episode 23: Interview with Director Jorge Gutierrez

The Roto-SPOOKERS make an appearance for their annual Halloween episode. This time, they tackle the last of Disney’s package films, The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad. Highlights A little insight […]

Episode 78: The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad – The RotoSPOOKERS

You might hear a lot of news about big animation companies, but it’s the smaller studios that make the animation business go round. Whitney ramps up episode 22 with two great […]

Episode 22: Interviews with Greg Franklin and David Andrade