Volume 2 (2007) of the Society for Animation Studies‘ peer-reviewed on-line journal is now available for download (as a PDF or html file) on the Animation Studies website. The Animation Studies ...

Former Cartoon Brew owner, founding editor, and our dear friend, Amid Amidi, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Animafest Zagreb Award for Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies. The ...

World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb’s (June 3-8, 2019) Festival Council has announced that the 2019 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies award will be presented to ...

My first thoughts on setting about a review of this book were, "Who is going to buy it?" and, "Who is this review aimed at?" The cover picture may attract the average cartoon buff - it bears an ...

Nearly 90 years after the earliest experimental steps of animation film in Cairo, Egypt, in 1936, the field is undergoing a structural transformation across the African continent. The medium, long ...

This past week, some of the top figures in the European animation world gathered in Marseille, France, for the 2023 Edition of the CartoonNext event, which featured keynotes, panels and case studies ...

John Canemaker, Professor and Head of Animation Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, poses with the Animation Area's "mascot," a holdover from a recent visit to the school by Nick ("A Close Shave" ...

Animation occupies an unusual place in film history. On the one hand, some of the most popular films today are animated features (including several of the highest-grossing films for 2016), and the ...