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The 2013 Annual Society for Animation Studies (SAS) conference attempts to redefine animation.
The first stereoscopic, stop-motion Spanish thriller O Apostolo is released in Spain, and gets a US version.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the long list of feature animated films submitted for an Oscar.
Irish animation company Brown Bag Films prepares its first animated feature, Nightglider.

When animation can be creative in a most unexpected, instant way. Watch the adult-themed Instant Excitations by Adrien Weber.

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.

A group of students at Supinfocom Arles school, France, have directed a short about a calm but strange funeral. Watch Le Taxidermiste.

A Roman soldier is asked to deliver a message through the forest, but has to pass through a bear guarding its own space. Watch Dum Spiro.
41 international short films, 27 student and 3 feature films were selected for the 2012 Cinanima festival (Espinho, Portugal).
Medical, autobiographical and funny. Watch Foxy by Stephanie Thandi Johnstone.

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.

The Anim'est trophies were given on Saturday, October 13, at Patria Cinema, Bucharest. Have a look at the winners.
5 animated feature films were nominated at the 2012 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. 4 Japanese films and an Australian-US feature film compiled the list.