Another daring animated project in development. Learn more about Young Perez, an animated documentary helmed by Jean-Jacques Kahn & Franck Van Leeuwen, and watch the teaser.

The premiere convention for animation, Aka-con, takes place in Dublin.

The Oscar-awarded British animator Daniel Greaves prepares the stop-motion drama Mr. Plastimime.

Ari Folman's The Congress, his first animated work after the critically acclaimed Waltz with Bashir, opens the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Realisateurs) at Cannes Film Festival. Watch the first trailer of the film, and an animated excerpt.

An exhibition devoted to the German Drawn Animation Film 1930-1950 takes place in Dresden, Germany, from 21 April – 29 September 2013.

The Netherlands Institute for Animation (NIAF) has just published an announcement that is "on hold" as of 1 January 2013.

The Australian Isabel Peppard directs the stop-motion thriller Butterflies, and qualifies for an Oscar®.

Aaron Koblin and the Data Arts Team at Google have initiated an animated online project based on Surrealistic poetic principles.

The renowned and Berlin-awarded  Dutch animator Gerrit van Dijk died on 4 December.

Politically inspired, the documentary Imaginary Chile (Chile Imaginario) tells the story of a turbulent period in Chile.

The Oscar-hopeful French feature animated film, Le Tableau (The Painting) by Jean-François Laguionie won the Best Music Award at the Tübingen-Stuttgart International Festival.

The first stereoscopic, stop-motion Spanish thriller O Apostolo is released in Spain, and gets a US version.