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An ongoing campaign and an impressive number of currently 658 Russian animation artists unite against the war in Ukraine. An impressive number of Russian animation artists and animation professionals have unite their voice against the Ukrainian war....
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Production
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greybeard... ZF: What will you say to people who just completed their studies and want to follow the career of an illustrator or a cartoonist, an animator? Any advice? AV: It's difficult for me to give advice. But if you insist, my advice would be: do...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Interviews
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Mikhail Gurevich reports from the latest edition of Animafest Zagreb. Again, obliged to say, I haven’t had a chance to observe this edition of Animafest Zagreb (June 2-7) in person and, again, obliviously, missing the ‘life dynamics’, atmosphere and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mikhail Gurevich
- Category: Festivals
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Joseph Norman reports for Zippy Frames from the Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, UK 2020. This year';s (entirely online) Encounters Film Festival included a breadth of animation, with many films exploring unusual, adult oriented themes and deploying...
- Type: Article
- Author: Joseph Norman
- Category: Festivals
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Joseph Wallace talks to Zippy Frames within the framework of the Indie Online 2020 research project. Joseph Wallace, the BAFTA Cymru-nominated UK animation director, is no stranger to Zippy Frames, which has followed his latest work Salvation Has No...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Interviews
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Vassilis Kroustallis reports from the online edition of CEE Animation Forum 2020 and the pitching of its selected animation projects. CEE Animation Forum has positioned itself as an indispensable pitching forum and animation industry event. One of its...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Production
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Discover all the animation feature selections of the 2026 Annecy Festival. 22 animation features have been selected for this year's two competitive sections Annecy Festival (23-26 June 2026). As always, it's a mixed bag of indie films, films especially...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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Zippy Frames and Joseph Norman recently attended the Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2021 animation festival. Here's the report and top picks. The Austrian festival was held online and provided a unique and fresh insight into the art of animation made by...
- Type: Article
- Author: Joseph Norman
- Category: Festivals
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Find the top animation shorts of 2019, as voted by animation professionals. We did it again. After the successful run of the 2016 top animation shorts at Zippy Frames (where Blind Vaysha by Theodore Ushev and Nighthawk by Spela Cadez shared the top...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Awards & Prizes
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Copenhagen based animation director Julie Baltzer talks to Zippy Frames within the framework of the Indie Online 2020 research project. Julie Baltzer is one of the emerging voices of independent animation in Denmark. She graduated from The Animation...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Interviews
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Discover the Annecy Festival selection for short films for the festival's 2023 edition. For the 2023 edition, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival received more than 3200 entries from 100+ countries. 37 animation shorts proceed to the...
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- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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The Best Animation Shorts of 2023https://www.zippyframes.com/news/awards/top-animation-shorts-2023
Our best animation shorts of 2023 are here. Find out all 16 animation films selected by our contributors. The top animation shorts of the year (here 2023) are a useful notion, both a celebratory one and a chance to highlight the year's most eloquent...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Awards & Prizes
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A Quack Too Far by Melissa Culhanehttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/a-quack-too-far-melissa-culhane
Sometimes a quack may indeed go too far. Here's the sparkling animation short A Quack Too Far by Irish animation director Melissa Culhane. A fox settles down to sleep for the day, listening to the beautiful birdsong in the forest. However a noisy duck...
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- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Acid Rain took the Grand Prix of Stutgart International Festival of Animated Film. Find all winners of the 2020 edition. One more grand prix for Tomek Popakul in Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, and his Eastern European travelogue of...
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- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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Serbian animation directors Nikola Majdak and Ana Nedeljkovic talk to Zippy Frames within the framework of the Indie Online 2020 research project. Ana Nedeljkovic and Nikola Majdak have made themselves a stellar career on stop-motion animation,...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Interviews



