Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival 2014 is launching call for submissions.

 3 US features, one European, and a Japanese entry in the Oscar nominations for Best Animated Feature. Mickey Mouse goes for an Academy Award in the short animation category.

The Program in Experimental Animation in the School of Film/Video at CalArts seeks applicants for a full-time stop motion faculty position.

A powerful animation documentary by Jonas Odell on a case of terrorism in West Germany of the 70s. Watch Tussilago.

Dramatic and otherworldly: Substance by Utrecht School of the Arts students.

The horror of being a doll. Watch the inventive Jolie Bobine (kids, be warned).

Jacques-Remy Girerd, director of the upcoming ecological French feature Aunt Hilda! talks about animation and ecology -and admits that drawing Aunt Hilda gave him a headache.

The Academy is now accepting applications for its 2014 Student Academy Awards competition.

The BAFTAs nominated 3 animated films in the respective categories of feature animation and British Short Animation Films.