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.

SAM (Orti) is a Spanish stop-motion animator, who takes inspiration from Almodovar to present his adult, comedy horror situations. Watch the trailer & a second clip (The People's Princess) from his upcoming feature film, POS ESO.

In a recent Guardian article, David Cox suggests that the current stop-motion animation production (culminating so far in Tim Burton's Frankenweenie) should not be overestimated.

BFI London Film Festival will screen the latest Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars) film, Wolf Children. Watch the English trailer below.

The manager of the Incubus group, Steve Rennie, responds to Gerrit van Dijk's claim that the Drive music video was based on van Dijk's "I Move, So I Am" film.

The first excerpt for the Italian version of Pinocchio by Enzo D'Alo has now hit the web.