April 2022 was a bad time to be in the animation business for HBO Max. The streamer’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, had been quietly purging its cartoon catalog and canceling many of its ...

Even if you have never heard of Blur Studio, you’ve definitely seen its work. The Culver City, Calif.-based animation and visual effects studio does it all — the production of the wildly successful ...

The pilot of Glitch Productions’ new animated series, The Amazing Digital Circus, was released on YouTube on October 13, and has since racked up more than 200 million views, inspiring a dedicated ...

(indieWIRE/01.23.01) — As that buzz phrase of yester-year, digital video, continues to ripple across the cinematic landscape, the democratizing effect of technology remains in its early stages when it ...

Animation veteran Guillaume Dubois has partnered with Ankama’s Anthony Roux to launch Studio Unagi, a new animation studio based in the Canadian animation, vfx and gaming hotbed of Montreal. The ...

With popular IP productions dominating box offices and tv ratings, surviving as an indie studio is as difficult now as it has ever been. There is no guideline for survival in the industry and in most ...

In the animated film space, two things naturally come to mind: stories for children and big-budget, formulaic projects. The former idea is something directors have been fighting for years, a recent ...

The Animation Guild has completed unionization drives at three animation production studios, including SpindleHorse, the indie animation studio behind the Amazon Prime/A24 series "Hazbin Hotel" and ...

Italian animation producer Riva Studios has finalized its acquisition of leading French indie TeamTO after receiving final approval from the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris. Led by Riva Studios ...

One of the surprises of the awards season is Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow” — the dialog-free tale of a solitary cat’s emotional journey as it learns to survive after a great flood — which upended the ...

The Animation Guild has completed unionization drives at three animation production studios, including SpindleHorse, the indie animation studio behind the Amazon Prime/A24 series “Hazbin Hotel” and ...