Annecy Animation Festival
While speaking in a masterclass held at last year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Anderson shared that making an animated film always makes him want to return to live action.
Getting Animated
France's prestigious June animation festival will spotlight the partial use of AI to fuel discussion about the process, most prominently in the Japanese zombie feature "Who Said Death Is Beautiful?"
Getting Animated
Chris Sanders' highly anticipated movie gets an Annecy sneak peek in conjunction with a special screening of "How to Train Your Dragon" in honor of DreamWorks' 30th anniversary.
Getting Animated
Netflix highlights also include sneak peeks of an untitled "Wallace & Gromit" feature and Zack Snyder's upcoming adult animated series "Twilight of the Gods."
Ahead of Tuesday's Annecy festival premiere, director Natalie Nourigat discussed animating raccoons, tough love parenting, and her attachment to Oregon.
GKids' latest, a 2D re-imagining of the 14th century Japanese performer from acclaimed director Masaaki Yuasa, is part of Annecy 2020's work-in-progress program.
With Netflix, said Peter Lord, "we can make the film we want to make, the one we really care about, and share it with a global audience."
Other Annecy 2020 winners included "The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks" and "Kill It and Leave This Town."
Director Mike Rianda and his team started off with the manifesto: "Do Something New and Exciting with Animation."
The animated indie about magical animal crackers finally gets a streaming release date, three years after its Annecy premiere.
A sneak peek of "Connected" from Sony Pictures Animation and a Henry Selick Masterclass highlight the French festival's second wave of programming (June 15-30).
The Netflix feature acquisition, "Animal Crackers," returns to Annecy as an online making of session.
