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 It will change your perception of bugs. Watch the chivalry-inspired short King Kababa and the Knight.

The talented New Yorker animator Dustin Grella animates a message left in the voicemail. Watch Ode to Bikesharing.

You'll never want to lose your metro ticket again. Watch Metro by Jacob Wyatt.

The Salma Hayek-produced animated feature The Prophet,  based on Kahlil Gibran's book,  has been picked up for distribution by the Italian company Good Films.

Animator Misha Klein, who worked in Coraline, presents his stop-motion short Fred.

A combination of lyrical live-action with stop-motion animation in Eric Leiser's If I was. Watch the music video.

Tom Law, a fourth year student at CalArts, describes graphically a failure to communicate.

A documentary on the ill-fated feature project of the Academy Award-winning animator, Richard Williams, illuminated aspects of the animation business usually left untold.

The New York International Children's Film Festival announces its winners. See the awards for animated films.

The short animated film Fresh Guacamole by the LA director, PES, is the shortest film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.

The Oscar®-nominated short Adam and dog by Minkyu Lee is online. Watch the film.

Don Hertzfeldt's It's Such A Beautiful Day is a heart-breaking and mesmerizing film on life and the passing of time. 

The Ancestor is a video clip by Darlingside, and features animation by Crazy Lake Pictures. Watch the video clip.

Things are not always what they seem. Watch the dramatically intense The Renter by Jason Carpenter.

The US independent, experimental film Glitch In The Grid uses the stop-motion animation technique to guide through current age worries.

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