Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
Long Story Short is an animated comedy created by the mind behind BoJack Horseman. The show follows the Schwooper siblings as they jump back and forth through time, from childhood to adulthood and back again, capturing their highs, lows, joys, and finding balance along the way.
Several years have passed since we last saw the Hill family. Hank and Peggy Hill, now retired after years working in Saudi Arabia, return to a transformed Arlen, Texas. Meanwhile, Bobby, now 21, is thriving as a chef in Dallas.
ASIFA-Hollywood’s Animation Educators Forum (AEF) is proud to announce the ten recipients of this year’s AEF Faculty Grants program. The Faculty Grants Committee of the Animation Educators Forum awarded a total of $30,000 to the recipients. Applications came from seven states, six countries, and four continents from a variety of animation artists, educators, and scholars. […]
This summer, Animation Scoop attended the 2025 Annecy International Animation Film Festival and met with filmmakers from around the world. Ahead of DreamWorks’ highly anticipated The Bad Guys 2 (coming to theaters on August 1st), I sat down with director Pierre Perifel to talk about the film’s distinct visual style, specificity of character movement, and […]
Opening in theaters on December 19th, Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Movies will present The SpongeBob Movie: Search For Squarepants – and today we have our first look. And it looks great! And funny! Derek Drymon directs; Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, Mr. Lawrence, George Lopez, Isis “Ice Spice” Gaston, Arturo […]
“The Art of The Boy and the Heron” opens with director Hayao Miyazaki’s self-deprecating Project Memo: “Isn’t it proof that you are aging when you imagine you’re still capable, but in fact you have memory loss due to senility? I would say yes.” Audiences who saw the Oscar-winning film would say “no.” The Japanese title […]
The debut of KPOP Demon Hunters truly took the world by storm this last weekend, earning Netflix its highest combined critic and audience score for an original film on Rotten Tomatoes. With an ever growing fanbase that popped up before the film was even released, it comes with no surprise that it was a major […]
The Annual Collision Awards are back for the second time around, this time featuring eight Crunchyroll-streaming titles as finalists. Fans can now participate in the Audience Choice Rating Platform through July 11th.
Visual Effects Society Awards nominee Claudia Chung Sanii (Zootopia) is the VFX Supervisor of the latest Pixar animated feature Elio, which is now playing in theaters. Discover some of the ‘out of this world’ challenges she and the entire team faced as they brought this sci-fi comedy adventure to the screen. (This Animation Scoop Q&A […]
It has been a tough grind for once-vaunted Pixar. After their “Golden Age” (1995-2010, excluding anything related to talking cars), Pixar has been inconsistent at best (Soul, Inside Out 2, and Turning Red) to substandard at worst (Onward, Lightyear, and Elemental). In this way, they somewhat resemble their partner/distributor Disney, which has seemingly forgotten how […]
