Schools

Profiles and program launches from colleges, universities, certificate programs and other animation training providers.

Guillermo del Toro, Netflix & Gobelins to Launch Stop-Motion Studio-Lab

Netflix, Gobelins Paris and multi-Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pinocchio, The Shape of Water) have joined forces to launch a groundbreaking stop-motion studio that...

Mercedes Milligan - October 10, 2025

ASIFA’s AEF Announces Animation Student Scholarship Recipients

ASIFA-Hollywood’s Animation Educators Forum (AEF) has announced its scholarship recipients for academic year 2025-26. Six students were selected, one graduate student and five undergraduates,...

Mercedes Milligan - September 22, 2025

MAKE’s Commercial Animation Workshop 2025 Now Open for Applications

MAKE (makevisual.com) creative studio has officially opened applications for the 2025 Commercial Animation Workshop. This selective program gives animation students from around the world...

Mercedes Milligan - September 15, 2025

Wacom Launches Free Online Character Design Workshop for All

Creative youngsters and burgeoning artists can find a productive way to beat the summer heat this year with Creativity Camp, a series of free...

Mercedes Milligan - June 30, 2025

Sony Pictures Animation, Imageworks & Yellowbrick Launch Free ‘This Is Animation’ Online Course

Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks, the studios behind hit animated films and series including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Hotel Transylvania, have...

Mercedes Milligan - May 29, 2025

Creative Talent Network Foundation Announces Scholarship Recipients for 2025

Creative Talent Network Foundation (ctnfoundation.org) — the education, scholarship, mentorship and resource branch of the Creative Talent Network (CTN) — announced the recipients of...

Mercedes Milligan - May 16, 2025

Vancouver Animation School to Grant 50% Scholarships for LatAm Digital Arts Students

Vancouver Animation School (VANAS), the largest educational institution of its kind in Canada, is granting more than 80 scholarships to Latin American residents. Those interested...

Mercedes Milligan - May 9, 2025

Teens Create Animated Eco Feature Inspired by ‘Wizard of Oz’

Educational animation company Wonder Media is working with students and teachers from 17 different Pittsburgh-area school districts to create a new conservation-focused feature film...

Mercedes Milligan - April 16, 2025

Aardman Partners with BAFTA to Support Animation’s Future Stars

Today, multi-award-winning independent U.K. animation studio Aardman and BAFTA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, have announced a yearlong partnership with the...

Mercedes Milligan - April 15, 2025

To Life Draw or Not to Life Draw, That Is an Animator’s Question

‘In my 50 years as a professional, of the hundreds of artists I have encountered, only two were Mozarts — gifted from the cradle. All...

Tom Sito - March 28, 2025

WIA Awards 55 Emerging Creatives with 2024-2025 Scholarships

Today, WIA announced the 55 global recipients — the largest group of award recipients to date — of the WIA Scholarship fund. The WIA...

Mercedes Milligan - March 27, 2025

Ringling College launches New Author/Illustrator Certificate

Florida's Ringling College of Art and Design, home to one of the nation's top-ranked animation programs, has launched an Author/Illustrator Undergraduate Certificate program. The...

Mercedes Milligan - March 26, 2025