The new artistic director of the International Animation festival of Annecy, the Canadian Marcel Jean, explains the new changed policy of the celebrated festival.

Aaron Koblin and the Data Arts Team at Google have initiated an animated online project based on Surrealist poetic principles.

The award-winning, pixilated short Stanley Pickle by Victoria Mather is online. Watch this powerful short.

Daddy, I'm A Zombie offers a consistent young adolescent adventure to the zombie world, even though its Wizard of Oz narrative strategy makes the film more of a deja-vu.

The renowned and Berlin-awarded  Dutch animator Gerrit van Dijk died on 4 December.

The mystery of the void, and the fear of the unknown. Watch the evocative short film; I'm not sure quite what it was.

Wreck-It Ralph won 5 Annie Awards (including Best Animated Feature) at the 40th Annie Awards, bestowed by The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood. See the major winners.

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 40th Annual Annie Awards.

The Czech political-existential thriller Alois Nebel won the animated feature film award at the 25th European Film Awards in 2012.

Joanna Lurie presents two bubble characters in her Partir (Leaving).

The dramatic A Letter to Momo by Hiroyuki Okiura won the Best Animated Feature award at the 6th Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

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.