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.

Hideous Henk is a Dutch animated pilot directed by Junaid Chundrigar. It is made for (young) adults, and is about a little ugly Chihuahua who gets adopted, making his life surprisingly worse than before.

You need to stay home. 5 indie animated short films that investigate our relationship with one of our basic needs: being at home, safe, protected and loved.

Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) has now its online edition, 5-10 May 2020.  

After Marona's Tale, Anca Damian prepares the post-modern musical comedy The Island.

CEE Animation Forum (May 5 – 8, 2020 / Liberec, Czech Republic) becomes the latest in a series of events to be cancelled due to the coronavirus crisis.

Jonathan Hodgson, Aardman Animations, and Moth Studio get rewards in the 24th British Animation Awards.

Eliane Gordeeff talks to Brazilian director Otto Guerra on his new animation feature film, City of Pirates (A Cidade dos Piratas), a production of Otto Desenhos Animados, in partnership with Erica Maradona.

Films selected in the Shorts, Student, and Croatian film competition for Animafest Zagreb have now been announced.

Here's about the French animation feature in production, Τhe Neighbors of My Neighbors Are My Neighbors by Anne Laure Daffis & Léo Marchand.

French animation director Benoît Chieux prepares Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds fantasy tale. Watch the film trailer.

Uli Meyer has a feature film in development, Molesworth, based on UK cartoonist Ronald Searle's Moleworth books.