Animation World Network

Director Yukimitsu Ina and animation producer Hitomi Tateno, a former Studio Ghibli animator, adapt Machiko Kyō's manga about the Okinawan schoolgirls sent to nurse Japanese soldiers in frontline cave hospitals in 1945; GKIDS opens the film in North Ameri

The Chinese studio, lead producer with Tencent Video and Coolabi Group, revealed the first materials, including early storyboards and near-final visuals, from the cat-clan adaptation; directed by Rodrigo Blaas and showrun by A.C. Bradley, the series debut

The 2 preschool icons splash through a mashup of their puddle-jumping songs, wellies, disco ball and all, in the first of 3 YouTube collaborations from Hasbro and Sesame Workshop; the next 2 arrive September 24 and October 28.

Columnist Andrew Osmond reflects on why it's hard to see a way forward for the most celebrated Japanese animation studio of all.

Debuting October 21, new season of the animated adaptation of Andrew Peterson's novels, covering 'The Monster in the Hollows,' sends the family north to the Green Hollows; Season 5 already greenlit, set for fall 2027.

Germany's largest animation festival runs April 27-May 2, 2027 and awards 60,000 euros across 5 competitions; shorts submissions are due by November 15, features by January 15; the Grand Prix winner goes onto the Academy Awards longlist.

Bruce W. Smith and Ralph Farquhar to be honored with the Animation Trailblazer Award; the director of DreamWorks' upcoming 'Forgotten Island' to receive the Variety Impact in Animation Award at the Atlanta event, which adds its first shorts competition an

Director Jon Densk, producer Falon Danita, and 'The Glassworker' filmmaker Usman Riaz talk 2 runs at Kickstarter, hand-drawn backgrounds built on Ghibli and 'Ponyo,' and how a critically endangered salamander became the hero of the Studio Fresco Animation

The Oscar-nominated production designer gives a 'Creating Worlds' career talk, from' Lord of the Rings' matte painter to production designer on James Cameron's sequels, and joins 2 panels on designing the latest 'Avatar' film's environments, vehicles and

The studio Adam Goodman founded to develop the property hands future episodes to 4 creators who rose through the franchise's fan community, with 'VOIDSTORM' creator Virlance named showrunner and Episode 80 animator Strider directing animation and sound.