Online release for the animation short 'Little Dan' by CalArts graduate and indie animation artist Yingdan Lai.

Queer desire in animation. Watch the 2D animation short 'Christopher at Sea' by Tom CJ Brown.

A new Hawaiian-themed animation short running for the 2025 Oscars. Read our interview with Daniel Sousa, animation director for 'The Queen's Flowers' (directed by Ciara Lacy).

An animated puppet film on family relationships and learning. Watch the animation short 'Memories with Ama' by Joan Hui Ko.

A stop-motion puppet dares to go outside. Watch the animation film 'Under A Shooting Contrail' by Rika Nakayama.

A story of a Chinese child in the infamous Cultural Revolution. RISD animation graduate Mochi Lin talks about her puppet animation short, 'Swallow Flying to the South'.

US indie animation filmmaker Luca Dipierro talks to Zippy Frames about his cut-out animation short The Cadence, which premieres at the 2022 Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Check the film's trailer

A life insurance company uses an AI algorithm to determine the risk of a new applicant in Mitch McGlocklin's hypnotic animation work, Forever.

Joseph Norman reviews the stop-motion animation feature ‘Mad God’, directed by Phil Tippett, which premiered at Locarno Film Festival.

Amanda Bonaiuto talks to Zippy Frames about Shanghai, her new 2D animation short. 

Betsy de Fries and Jerry van den Beek direct a poetic reflection on a horrendous event at the Yellowstone National Park. Watch the Yellowstone 88 animation short.

Vassilis Kroustallis reviews the US indie animation feature Cryptozoo by Dash Shaw.

The debut animated feature “Coriander & A Penny’s Worth of Lonesome” by Julian Grant debuts nationwide on multiple streaming channels.

US independent animation filmmaker Eric Leiser (Glitch In the Grid, Apocalypsis) talks to Zippy Frames.

Meghan McDonough, Stevie Borrello and Marcie LaCerte made an animation documentary, Invisible Monsters and Potato Soup, full of dreams during the pandemic. They put all bits together, and they present it at Zippy Frames.