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A new Hawaiian-themed animation short running for the 2025 Oscars. Read our interview with Daniel Sousa, animation director for 'The Queen's Flowers' (directed by Ciara Lacy).

An animation puppet film on family relationships and learning. Watch the animation short 'Memories with Ama' by Joan Hui Ko.

A stop-motion puppet dares to go outside. Watch the animation film 'Under A Shooting Contrail' by Rika Nakayama.

World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb Festival Council decided to award the 2023 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies to Suzanne Buchan.

A story of a Chinese child in the infamous Cultural Revolution. RISD animation graduate Mochi Lin talks about her puppet animation short, 'Swallow Flying to the South'.

A life insurance company uses an AI algorithm to determine the risk of a new applicant in Mitch McGlocklin's hypnotic animation work, Forever.

Joseph Norman review the stop-motion animation feature ‘Mad God’, directed by Phil Tippett, which premiered at Locarno Film Festival.

Betsy de Fries and Jerry van den Beek direct a poetic reflection on a horrendous event at the Yellowstone National Park. Watch Yellowstone 88 animation short.

The debut animated feature “Coriander & A Penny’s Worth of Lonesome” by Julian Grant debuts nationwide on multiple streaming channels.

US independent animation filmmaker Eric Leiser (Glitch In the Grid, Apocalypsis) talks to Zippy Frames.

Meghan McDonough, Stevie Borrello and Marcie LaCerte made an animation documentary, Invisible Monsters and Potato Soup, full of dreams during the pandemic. They put all bits together, and they present it at Zippy Frames.