Snow Bear, Cat and Moth, and Student Accomplice are all among the best, near-perfect animated short films from the last 5 ...

Once again another magnificent animated short film that shows the extraordianry potential of animation as a storytelling medium. There's so much that can be visualized with animation techniques. Solar ...

"Even darkness must pass. A new day will come... And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer," Samwise Gamgee once said. This lovely short film made by an Italian animation filmmaker Guilia ...

In recent years, the landscape of short animated films has undergone a significant shift. Short animated films are increasingly stretching beyond the 20-minute mark. In fact, three of this year’s five ...

Figuring out the very long list of many shorts that will qualify to land on the shortlist for the Best Animated Short Film Academy Award each year is about as difficult as the most challenging ...

Following its launch in Mainland China in April 2026, the anime and toy series "TOMICA XROSS RESCUE" is set to be rolled out in Japan, with subsequent launches planned in Taiwan region, Hong Kong SAR ...

Ninety-five Senses, the first animated short from husband and wife filmmaking duo Jared and Jerusha Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre), is receiving a limited four-week online For Your ...

There are plenty of Oscar-eligible animated short films getting lots of love and ink ahead of the 2023 awards. In fact, we’ve published three lists of our own which can be found here. Below, we look ...

Short subjects willing to tackle tough subjects made the final cut with the Academy this year. That means audiences buying tickets to the “2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation” program should ...

Based in Scotland, Finn has been writing about Japanese pop culture for nine years now. He is also a gamer, hiker, and proud vegan. His passion is bringing news straight from Japan to you, in English, ...

Nintendo’s announcement of a live-action movie inspired by The Legend of Zelda felt both inevitable and yet almost unbelievable. I say the former, because how could Nintendo resist attempting to ...

The animation branch, to which approximately 700 Academy members will belong, will be represented by two governors, and the short films branch, to which some 200 members will belong, will be ...