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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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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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Online release for the animation short 'Little Dan' by CalArts graduate and indie animation artist Yingdan Lai. A girl, a park, and a 2D animation film full of memories. CalArts graduate, US-based indie animator Yingdan Lai crafted 'Little Dan', a 2D...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Discover the new crop of short animation graduates at The Animation Workshop (Viborg, Denmark). The Animation Workshop, VIA University College (TAW), ranked as the world’s fourth-best international animation school, has now unveiled its not crop of...
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- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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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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"Memories with Ama' by Joan Hui Kohttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/memories-with-ama-joan-hui-ko
An animated puppet film on family relationships and learning. Watch the animation short 'Memories with Ama' by Joan Hui Ko. LA-based animation Joan Hui Ko is a new talent coming from CalArts and applying her skills to both professional and personal...
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- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Eliane Gordeeff interviews the producers of the much-awaited 'They Shot The Piano Player' animation feature by Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal, which has its San Sebastian world premiere this September. I had the opportunity to talk with 'They Shot...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Feature Animation
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Eliane Gordeeff was at the Portuguese animation festival Cinanima 2023 and brings to Zippy Frames readers her impressions and her top animation picks. This year’s edition of the Cinanima Festival (13-19 November 2023, Espinho, Portugal) had...
- Type: Article
- Author: Eliane Gordeeff
- Category: Festivals
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Marbles by Natalia Spychałahttps://www.zippyframes.com/shorts/marbles-natalia-spychala
Polish animation director Natalia Spychała presents her Marbles stop-motion short to Olga Bobrowska and Zippy Frames. The hypnotizing pendulum sets a particular mechanism in motion. A body, space and variety of objects form a rhythmic system of...
- Type: Article
- Author: Olga Bobrowska
- Category: Shorts
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All animation winners of the 26th International Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2019. Six festival days ended successfully with the grand Award Ceremony in Gloria 1 on Sunday evening, May 5 May. The winner of the Grand Prix, the award for the best...
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- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Festivals
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Vassilis Kroustallis showcases the best Belgian animation shorts presented at this year's Anima Festival (Brussels). Belgian independent animation has a long tradition of embracing both the familiar and the uncanny (for older and more recent examples,...
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- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Shorts
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Two talented people talk about their politically conscious animation work. Our interview with Serbian animation directors Ana Nedeljković and Nikola Majdak Jr. They were first heard internationally when they won the Cristal Bear at the 2013 Berlin Film...
- Type: Article
- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Interviews
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Vassilis Kroustallis reports from the 13th edition of StopTrik Festival. StopTrik Festival (27 Sep - 1 Oct 2023, Maribor, Slovenia) had a fitting motto 'Exercises in Speaking Up'. Zippy Frames has followed this stop-motion animation festival from its...
- Type: Article
- Author: Vassilis Kroustallis
- Category: Festivals
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Sometimes it's good to revisit your own history. Zippy Frames talks with the creative team behind the acclaimed animation short Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson. It is one of those animation shorts that bring you back in...
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- Author: ZF Team
- Category: Shorts
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Anastazja Naumenko and Damjan Lazin are the latest winners of the 2025 CEE Animation Forum. They spoke to us and shared their experience of the creative and production processes. "Laughing through the urge to cry" is the main stylistic choice by...
- Type: Article
- Author: Viktor Smolkin
- Category: Shorts



