You’d think the number of animators would grow accordingly, but it didn’t increase that much,” said Fukumiya Ayano, of Nippon ...

Filmmakers Alexandre Poncet and Gilles Penso assemble a vast portrait of the medium through dozens of artists, studios, and ...

MAKE Animation Thesis Grant celebrates second-year winners and looks to grow support for emerging animators. T he MAKE grant ...

In late August, six trainees were drawing anime characters under the guidance of an instructor at a room in a major anime production company in Tokyo’s Nakano Ward. TMS Entertainment Co. recruits ...

Legendary animation outsider Ralph Bakshi celebrated his 77th birthday yesterday with a defiant cartoon comeback called Last Days of Coney Island. “I did 98 percent of all of the animation, and all of ...

This year’s class of trailblazing storytellers includes: Fawn Veerasunthorn, director, “Wish” (Walt Disney Animation Studios, 2023); Karissa Valencia, creator and showrunner, “Spirit Rangers”; Juston ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not long ago, the main road to animation careers ran through art schools, and while many young animators still follow that path, ...