Tim Burton's stop-motion Frankenweenie is a welcome reminder of what classic horror pictures used to be, but it prefers to describe horror rather than cause it.

The 9th Animateka Festival in Slovenia runs from 3-9 December (Ljubljana)/10-16 Dec (Maribor), and highlights some prominent European animation titles.

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.

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman portrays Graham Chapman as a person who defied etiquette.

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 animated feature 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.

The longlist of short animated films qualifying for an Oscar has been made public. See the qualifying films.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the long list of feature animated films submitted for an Oscar.

Irish animation company Brown Bag Films prepares its first animated feature, Nightglider.