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Nicole Otaola Directed By
June 3, 2022
SVA grad Nicole Otaola wrote and directed her BFA thesis film "Directed By:" based on a real-life situation with her…
Boss Baby Family Business SCAD panel
September 24, 2021
Visual FX artists who worked on DreamWorks' Boss Baby: Family Business movie gave advice to aspiring animators at SCAD AnimationFest…
POC Characters Recast Mike Henry
July 9, 2020
Animated movies and series has been mis-casting POC characters for years. Here are some animated series that are recasting white…
Marona's Fantastic Tale Anca Damian
June 16, 2020
Anca Damian got the idea for her film Marona’s Fantastic Tale after she came across a stray puppy while walking…
April 10, 2019
In this exploration of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s filmography, Susan Napier paints a portrait of the world this renowned moviemaker…
February 16, 2018
Early Man director Nick Park sat down with MovieMaker to hammer out some thoughts on how stop-motion changed his previous…
November 17, 2017
In Nora Twomey’s animated The Breadwinner, young Parvana dresses as boy, risking her life to carry out the most mundane…
October 24, 2017
Yes, you can make a fantastical production on a real-boy budget. That’s the conceit of director Alex Thompson’s music video for
September 29, 2017
Fleming's debut animated feature Window Horses is a delicately crafted and heartwarming ode to borderless connections between people via creativity.
August 11, 2017
This Corner of the World director Sunao Katabuchi talks crowdfunding, digging for historical references, adapting manga source material and more.
August 8, 2017
Alex Heboyan and Benoit Philippon’s Mune: The Guardian of the Moon would have likely faced rejection if they had attempted…
July 25, 2017
Sébastien Laudenbach’s first feature The Girl Without Hands, based upon the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same title, is…
July 19, 2017
Out of the hundreds of bachelors and masters programs in the U.S. and Canada, we’ve chosen 40 schools that best…
June 26, 2017
Liyana directors Aaron and Amanda Kopp and animator Shofela Coker see themselves as "a new wave of moviemakers exploring the…
June 26, 2017
Literally Short Film Festival is a new cinematic outlet in Houston that focuses on international short films, with an eye…
April 7, 2017
A rare comet shatters the infinite loop of time, linking two unsatisfied teenage lives in Your Name, the highest-grossing anime…
March 9, 2017
What are "aspect-to-aspect" transitions, and how can they help you make your movie? Watch this video on their role in…
January 18, 2017
Michaël Dudok de Wit, whom Studio Ghibli invited to be the company’s first animation collaborator, channels nature's beauty and mysteries…
January 6, 2017
Watch this slice of film history on Princess Mononoke's long road from idea to animation classic, drawn over decades by…
October 31, 2016
Ron Diamond's The Animation Show of Shows is a collection of the best animated shorts of that year, released by…
August 20, 2016
Travis Knight, CEO of the animation factory Laika, speaks with MovieMaker about his directorial debut, Kubo and the Two Strings.
July 1, 2016
Roger Ross Williams’ Sundance-winning documentary Life, Animated is testament to movies' power to be so much more than just entertainment.
April 22, 2016
Early motion capture practices have been around since the 18th century; however, it's only become a staple in all manners…