Welcome to The New School, a series highlighting striking, rising talents coming out of top film schools. Meet "Directed By:"…
When it comes to visual effects, bigger and bolder doesn't always mean better. Three visual effects artists who worked on…
White actors have played Black, Asian, Latinx, and Indigenous characters for years. And while onscreen whitewashing has been widely condemned…
Anca Damian got the idea for her film Marona’s Fantastic Tale when she came across a stray puppy while walking…
In this exploration of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s filmography, professor Susan Napier paints a fascinating portrait of the world this…
Historical revisionism meets Aardman’s signature clay animation for a comedy about cavemen playing soccer in the beloved studio’s newest stop-motion…
Far away from the sparkly castles and enchanted kingdoms where Disney princesses exist, Parvana, a young Afghan girl living under…
Yes, you can make a fantastical production on a real-boy budget. That's the conceit of director Alex Thompson's music video for…
Intrinsically shaped by multiculturalism, Canadian director Ann Marie Fleming has amassed a body of work grounded in her curiosity to…
An in-person conversation with Japanese director Sunao Katabuchi evidences his visually wired mind. In our exchange during his most recent…
Experimentation involves risk, a factor that doesn’t figure into the equation of the increasingly homogeneous list of studio films—both live…
French animator Sébastien Laudenbach’s ethereal first feature The Girl Without Hands, based upon the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the…
Perhaps you’re someone who dreams of a career in moviemaking, and has come to the realization that the discipline, experimentation and…
In Liyana, five talented young storytellers in Swaziland collaborate to create a fictional hero’s journey. The story they write is…
For many, the idea of Houston is rooted in a combination of history and popular myth. A mountain of towering…
A rare comet shatters the infinite loop of time, linking two unsatisfied teenage lives in the anime hit Your Name—the…
Do you love animated cinema but don't know how the hell its techniques will help you make your movie? As…
As a child, director Michaël Dudok de Wit would walk at night through the forest near the Dutch town where…
It's no secret that a lot of time goes into making timeless films. For Hayao Miyazaki, attaining classic status with…
These days, feature animation is an exorbitantly profitable business, one that keeps major studios racing to assemble the next four-quadrant…
Tangible magic paired with tales of offbeat heroes is animation company Laika’s expertise. During its first 10 outstanding years, the…
Quoting from a favorite scene, empathizing with a character’s dilemma, adopting the philosophies of fictional societies—anyone that has ever found…
Early motion capture practices have been around since the 18th century. However, it's only much more recently that the technology…