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The US independent, experimental film Glitch In The Grid uses the stop-motion animation technique to guide through current age worries.
What happens when Hitler learns his commissioned work won't be paid? See one more parody of the Downfall film.

The Dutch animator Gerrit van Dijk claims that the music video for the Incubus hit Drive is based on his own animated film "I move, so I am" - and permission to use the film was neither asked nor given.
The 2012 Hiroshima International Animation Festival announced its winners. See the awards.
Children Who Chase Lost Voices by Makoto Shinkai is a rich journey into the world of dead, full of adventure - but leaves much to be sensed about life and the role of humans within.
Encounters Short Film Festival and Animated Encounters in Bristol (18-23 September) presents the best of British South West talent.

Colorful by Keiichi Hara makes the soul incarnation issue a tale of moral transformation, and is daring enough to visualize both sides of the moral coin.

The new film by the Japanese Masayuki Kojima and Madhouse presents a clearly defined story of responsibility (and soemtimes true love) between a boy and a dog.

The Canadian independent animator, Nick Cross co-directs with Dave Cooper PigGoatBananaMantis. Watch the film.
Uli Meyer is determined to make an animated version of the celebrated (and anarchic) British cartoon series St. Trinians.

Felix Massie makes an elevator (plus ladder) story on the question of how to achieve happiness. Watch Keith Reynolds can't make it tonight.

Noore Kim presents Pest. Watch the student film to compete at the Cartoon Brew Student Animation Festival.