‘I Am Frankelda’ Filmmakers Roy and Arturo Ambriz Take ‘Ballad of the Phoenix’ to Venice, Share Guillermo del Toro’s Advice to ‘Go Bigger’

The brothers behind Mexico's first stop-motion animated feature are prepping their second film, a fantasy inspired by epic ...
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Turning a 2D Illustration into a 3D Environment with a Hand-Painted Look

Shuming Zhang spoke about creating The WoodLand Pizzeria, covering his experiments with seasons and times of day and his ...
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Academy-Honored Shorts ‘Butterfly’ And ‘Gauze’ Use Water, Memory, And Animation To Confront Genocide

Earlier this year, Florence Miailhe’s exquisitely crafted animated Holocaust short Butterfly was nominated for an Academy Award. This week, Gauze, a 2D Gobelins graduation film about a Palestinian ...