(Photo: NFB) Every year, the Short Film categories at the Academy Awards highlight projects that often receive far less mainstream attention than feature-length nominees. This is especially true for ...

This project started with a simple question: What are the most-viewed independently produced animated shorts on Youtube? As I soon discovered though, no online resource tracks that info. So I decided ...

Hello, and welcome to Sketch to Screen, a newsletter looking at the world of animation from yours truly, IndieWire Curation Editor Wilson Chapman. This is a space to celebrate all of animation, from ...

Well, that was awkward. Everyone knows this uncomfortable feeling. When something strange happens in public and you feel really, really awkward and just want to run away and hide. Awkward is a fun ...

The Academy's disdain for animation is a matter of record, sniffily referred to as "kids' stuff" by Oscar hosts who would run screaming if presented with the scatological eschatology of a Mad God. But ...

The upside of YouTube’s “You watched this one video, so you must want to see everything else we have in that vein” algorithm is that it helpfully surfaces things you didn’t even know to search for, ...

William Fischer is an author at Collider. Born and raised in Nebraska, he latched onto moviemaking at a young age and has been chasing it ever since. William holds a BFA in film from the University of ...

Humanity. What have we become? What is real anymore? This mesmerizing short film explores this idea in only three minutes. Pile is an experimental animated short film created by an animation filmmaker ...

Animated feature films are incredibly complex. They require hundreds of people working for multiple years to produce. At any time significant story changes could be made that could require throwing ...

Retirement Plan, nominated in the Animated Short category at this year’s Oscars, is a stunning 7-minute film narrated by Domhnall Gleeson.