The author of Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days, Regina Pessoa, designs the 60th anniversary ASIFA Poster for the International Animation Day.

This week, as the world enters lockdown, Joseph Norman, contributor at Zippy Frames, conducted a remote interview with Gerald Conn, director at the animation studios Gritty Realism, based in Ystrad Mynach, South Wales.

BAFTA-awarded filmmaker Maryam Mohajer presents her animation short Red Dress. No Straps at Zippy Frames.

The last inhabitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion. In a world where the idea of progress appears to be above all, this home floats. Here's Drop by Drop (Água Mole) by Alexandra Ramires (Xá) and Laura Gonçalves

Woloshen: I am incorporating every aspect of handmade manipulation into one film. Watch The Dead Sea Scrolls.

Frogs, trains and people collide in the dystopian parable The Wheel Turns by New York-based filmmaker Sang Joon Kim. 

As part of La Fête du Court Métrage and to replace all the screenings scheduled in theaters on this occasion: THEE WRECKERS TETRALOGY by Rosto is exceptionally available on video on demand from March 25 to 31.

This interview, taken by our contributor Kropka, took place during the 3rd edition of ReAnima Festival in Bergen, Norway, where Christina S. Nerland gave a masterclass, 'How to survive in the animated industry?. Read the whole thing.

In the latest lockdown interview, Zippy Frames catches up with Lorenz Wunderle to discuss his animated short film, Coyote.

A very unusual but still challenging and mesmerizing film. Watch (mature audiences only) the French animation short Chulyen, A Crow's Tale by Cerise Lopez and Agnès Patron. 

The 6th Conference on Graphic Design and Visual Communication in Cyprus, Graphic Stories Cyprus, was held with great success in Nicosia on 6-8 March 2020.

Mocap innovator Rokoko announces the public opening of "Motion Library," the world’s largest mocap marketplace. Previously available exclusively through Unity, the Motion Library will let users select an existing mocap asset – created by top Hollywood studios, AAA game devs and more – and insert it directly into an existing scene.

Vassilis Kroustallis reports on Anima Festival 2020 and selects 10 Belgian animation shorts to watch in 2020.

Sander Joon presents online his animation short Sounds Good, where a boom operator is trying to record the sound of mushrooms.

Academy Award-winning Russian animation artist Aleksandr (Alexander) Petrov will become the International Honorary President of Hiroshima International Animation Festival 2020.