The 40th competition of the Academy of the Arts and Sciences for its Student Academy Awards is under way. 9 works are nominated in the animation category, with more animated nominees in differerent categories.

The Boy and His Atom is a playful scientific experiment on atoms by IBM. Watch the stop-motion film below.

See the list of selected projects for the Creative Focus section of the 2013 Annecy International Film Festival.

A documentary on the ill-fated feature project of the Academy Award-winning animator, Richard Williams, illuminated aspects of the animation business usually left untold.

A new documentary feature on the Academy Award-winning animator Richard Wiliams, Persistence of Vision, has been selected at Annecy festival, France. Its director, Kevin Schreck, talks to Zippy Frames.

The 20th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film conferred its awards. See all the winners.

The new track by Hiatus and its stop-motion video made by animator Tom Jobbins

See the winners of the Animated Com Award (field of applied animation) at the 20th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.

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.

Chris Landreth's comeback with Subconscious Password. 

Highly symbolic and dramatic: watch Playing with Fire by Alexandra Levasseur

The filmmaker Gemma Atkinson narrates her adventure when filming British Police officers. Watch Act of Terror.

The Suicide Shop (Le magasin des sucides) by Patrice Leconte is an anomaly: a film that is so warm that belies its subject-matter, but also contrived and stereotyped.

The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki by Mamoru Hosoda is a well-studied, but lifeless experiment on identity and the motive of the feral child.