Tag: Bill Plympton
How Bill Plympton and the Team behind ‘Whale 52’ Created Their Poignant, Hand-Crafted Short
A young boy with selective mutism and a grieving 80-year-old school volunteer discover a way to communicate and form a special bond in director...
Oscar Watch: An Early Dossier of the 2025 Qualified Animated Shorts
Every day new animated shorts qualify for the year-end quest for the big golden bald statuette. Keeping tab of all these amazing projects is...
Oscar-Qualifying Woodstock Film Fest Unveils Animated Selections
From October 15-19, film lovers will gather in the scenic Catskill Mountains for the 2025 Woodstock Film Festival — an Oscar-qualifying competitions in all three...
Weird Al Yankovic Presents Bill Plympton Animation Retrospective in N.Y.C.
Musical parody maestro “Weird Al” Yankovic will present a collection of the weirdest, wildest and most innovative shorts from Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton, in...
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts Celebrates Stop-Motion Magic in Oregon
The 2025 Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts is pulling back the curtain on the creatively and technically challenging world of stop-motion animation in Animation:...
Bill Plympton’s Oscar-Nominated ‘Guard Dog’ Debuts on YouTube
A piece of animation history is ready to fetch a fresh audience online, Bill Plympton's hand-illustrated short Guard Dog bounds onto YouTube. The 2004 dark...
Jim Lujan’s Animated Crime Comedy ‘The Full Fungus’ Sets World Premiere with Animation+
Streaming Ink Media and celebrated independent animator Jim Lujan announce the world premiere of his boundary-pushing feature film The Full Fungus, exclusively on Animation+...
‘Bug Diner,’ ‘Edith and the Tall Child’ Win Top Animation Prizes at Sundance and Slamdance Festivals
Phoebe Jane Hart’s charming stop-motion short Bug Diner was the Winner of the Top Short Jury Award for Animation at this year’s just-wrapped Sundance...
L.A. Animation Fest Presents ‘Night of Cartoon Voices’ Dec. 9
The Los Angeles Animation Festival (December 9-10) has announced a special event, a Night of Cartoon Voices, as part of its LAAF 2023 program...
Spark Animation 2023 Announces Full Program
The Spark Computer Graphics Society (Spark CG), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and fostering the computer graphics industry, has announced the in-person program...
Bill Plympton’s ‘Slide’ Closes Record-Setting Animayo Edition
Animayo, International Animation, Visual Effects and Videogames Summit -- the only animation festival in Spain designated a qualifier for the Academy Awards in two...
PFCAT Awards Best Animated Honors to ‘Quantum Cowboys,’ ‘Echo,’ ‘Regular Rabbit’ & More
The first-ever Portland Festival of Cinema. Animation & Technology (PFCAT) attracted thousands of visitors to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry early this...
Exclusive: Signe Baumane Discusses ‘My Love Affair with Marriage’, Her Timely Annecy-Nominated Feature
Latvian writer, director and illustrator Signe Baumane’s new feature My Love Affair with Marriage centers on a woman named Zelda who finds herself questioning...
Autonomous Animator: The Joy of Working for Yourself
I've never been a big fan of coloring inside the lines. Well, maybe a little at first — but once I figured out all...
Stuff We Love: Magical March Picks
Utterly Enchanting! Critics, audiences — basically, everyone and their abuela have been singing the praises of Disney's latest visually stunning musical fantasy, Encanto. Fresh...
Fear of a Deadly Virus: Bill Plympton & Danny Leonard Profile Pandemic Life in ‘Demi’s Panic’
***This article originally appeared in the December '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 315)***
At the start of the pandemic, Danny Leonard and Lorena Hernández...
Out of Afghanistan: Michaela Pavlátová on ‘My Sunny Maad’
***This article originally appeared in the December '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 315)***
Animation aficionados will recognize Czech director Michaela Pavlátová as the acclaimed...
World Animation & VFX Summit Announces 2021 Honorees, Panelists
The 2021 edition of the World Animation & VFX Summit, taking place live and in-person November 7-10 on the grounds of the historic Garland...
‘Animation Is the Future’ at HollyShorts Film Festival
The Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival is proving animation is the future when it comes to entertainment. The 17th edition, happening from September 23 to...
Wonder Woman: Joanna Quinn on Her Brilliant ‘Affairs of the Art,’ Life & Career
***This article originally appeared in the June/July '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 311)***
If you've been following the world of indie animation over the...
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