Caleb Wood, Elli Vuorinen and Emma De Swaef were the 3 animators chosen to participate in the Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo progamme 2012-2013.

The NFB film Le grand ailleurs et le petit ici by Michèle Lemieux  won the Grand Prix at the Cinanima festival in Espinho, Portugal. See all the winners.

Politically inspired, the documentary Imaginary Chile (Chile Imaginario) tells the story of a turbulent period in Chile.

An international conference on Illustration, Comics, and Animation is organized at Dartmouth College, 19-21 April, and invites call for paper proposals.

The Oscar-hopeful French feature animated film, Le Tableau (The Painting) by Jean-François Laguionie won the Best Music Award at the Tübingen-Stuttgart International Festival.

The Irish animator Eamonn O'Neill presents an intriguing portrait of a person in distress. Watch I'm Fine Thanks.

The UK animator Adam Wells describes his vision of a geometrically shaped world of uninteresting individuals with gusto. Watch Brave Old New.

The 2013 Annual Society for Animation Studies (SAS) conference attempts to redefine animation.

The first stereoscopic, stop-motion Spanish thriller O Apostolo is released in Spain, and gets a US version.