The ninth annual Animation First Festival, the country's largest animation festival, hits New York City from February 3-8, 2026.

Animators at Titmouse Vancouver have unionized, voting 98% to 2% to join the Animation Guild, IATSE Local 938. IATSE says it’s the first animation studio in Canada to become unionized. “Today, workers ...

Recent animation grad Lauren Taylor will add to the well-stocked BYU Center for Animation trophy case after winning first place in the animation category last weekend for Estefan at the 34th College ...

LOS ANGELES — In a dark room inside NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Koji Kuramura is giving space exploration the show-biz treatment. The 41-year-old animator once guided the starship Enterprise ...

The controversy swirling around Tiktok, which has rocketed to global fame in the past couple of years, has a way of obscuring what’s made it so popular in the first place. The video-sharing platform’s ...

The Animation Guild, a union made up of more than 5,000 workers across the animation industry, is at the bargaining table right now, negotiating a new three-year contract with Alliance of Motion ...

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The first generation of animators to attend Walt Disney's California Institute of the Arts in the 1970s is profiled in Vanity Fair magazine. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Nancy Beiman, who was part ...