Territory Group, parent of Territory Studio and Cantina Creative, has launched Lux Meridian, an AI-native film and TV studio developing features, series and animated films with Adobe's Firefly Foundry custom models. bit.ly/4hYnp3a #Animation #AnimationWorld

Leah Nelson's hand-drawn 'Tangles,' from Sarah Leavitt's memoir of her mother's Alzheimer's, has a trailer ahead of a qualifying run next month. Abbi Jacobson and Julia Louis-Dreyfus lead the cast; Seth Rogen produces. bit.ly/4iEWgBB #Animation #AnimationWorld

Leah Nelson's 'Tangles' won the Grand Jury Prize at Animation Is Film 2026; Louis Clichy's 'Iron Boy' took the Special Jury and Audience Awards, and 'Paper Trail' and 'Please' led the shorts. bit.ly/3W7uBS0 #Animation #AnimationWorld

Just in time for Halloween, hit horror podcast 'Radio Rental' has released 'Laura of the Woods,' a 10-minute LEGO-inspired #StopMotion short by Twisted Bricks creator Kristian Stenslie, built by hand frame by frame. bit.ly/4ihf2ys #Animation #AnimationWorld

'Avatar' production designer Dylan Cole on turning James Cameron's "blurry idea" into finished paintings, virtual sets and photoreal shots with Wētā FX, and the temp fish that wouldn't go away. He's at @LightBoxExpo October 23-25. bit.ly/4igEuEw #VFX #VFXWorld

Andrew Osmond caught @LAIKAStudios's 'Wildwood' at its London Film Festival world premiere. Travis Knight's #stopmotion epic sets new visual precedents for the medium. bit.ly/4iAIH74 #Animation #AnimationWorld

Former Pixar story artist Connie He on 'Dear Upstairs Neighbors,' her @GoogleDeepMind short: hand-drawn #animation, custom Veo models as the renderer, roller-skating octopuses and a death metal climax. bit.ly/47wPWa3 #AnimationWorld

Chef José Andrés hosts @autodesk's new series 'Made to Make,' and episode 1 goes inside Warner Bros. Pictures Animation's 'The Cat in the Hat' with writer-directors Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja. Film opens November 6. bit.ly/4kd0IJX #Animation #AnimationWorld

Warner Bros. Animation's Peter Girardi and Rick Morales on why they held 'Batman: Knightfall' back for years, matching the '90s comics' ink, and the Bat-suit coming in 'Knightquest'; Part 1 is out digitally. bit.ly/4dWHioN #Animation #AnimationWorld

Prime the Animation! returns to Valencia October 24-31 with 58 shorts from 28 countries by emerging #animation talent, opening with a live-scored 100th-anniversary screening of Lotte Reiniger's 'The Adventures of Prince Achmed.' bit.ly/4dVac8Z #AnimationWorld

Electronic Arts is closing BioWare, the studio behind 'Mass Effect' and 'Dragon Age,' and ending early work on the next 'Mass Effect' as it cuts about 400 jobs, less than three months after its $55 billion take-private deal. bit.ly/4eMwPMW #Animation #AnimationWorld

Three weeks left: animated shorts finished after October 1, 2025 can enter ITFS 2027 through November 15. The festival runs April 27–May 2, and its Grand Prix winner qualifies for the Academy Awards longlist. bit.ly/4snZf5Q #Animation #AnimationWorld

KeenTools' new KeenFace builds MetaHuman-ready 3D heads from ordinary photos, with 4K PBR maps, automated de-hairing and an API for #VFX, game and avatar pipelines. Pay-as-you-go, with free starter credits. bit.ly/487Vk3v #Animation #AnimationWorld #VFXWorld

Alisha Weir voices the Tooth Fairy in 'Nightling,' Qvisten Animation's first English-language original feature, directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen and 'Nemi' creator Lise Myhre. Dee Snider and Miriam Margolyes co-star. bit.ly/4yFrnTw #Animation #AnimationWorld

Ranbir Kapoor is Rama and Yash is Ravana in the new trailer for @SonyPictures' Ramayana: Rise of a Legend, from Namit Malhotra and @dneg. Nitesh Tiwari directs; Hans Zimmer and A.R. Rahman score. Opens November 5. bit.ly/3UBEfMi #VFX #VFXWorld

Coolabi, home of Warrior Cats and Beast Quest, is now Four Trees Media, named for the Clans' meeting place in the books. A Warrior Cats CG #animation series is in production for @DisneyPlus and Tencent Video. bit.ly/47AzfdL #AnimationWorld

A 25-year-old Tom Hanks on Zemeckis' monitor six frames after the camera shot the 67-year-old actor. Brahma AI CTO Jo Plaete on the Emmy-winning face replacement tech behind 'Here,' 'Furiosa' and 'F1' – and what it means for #VFX artists. bit.ly/4iakYsX #VFXWorld

Sauron forges the One Ring and Middle-earth goes to war in the 'Rings of Power' Season 3 trailer. Morfydd Clark and Charlie Vickers return, with @dneg, @ILMVFX and Rodeo FX leading the #VFX. Nov. 11 on @PrimeVideo. bit.ly/4i7Bvhl #Animation #AnimationWorld #VFXWorld

Concept artists rarely get the credit. Rachel Meinerding and Nicole Hendrix Herman on how the Concept Art Awards work: blind judging by peers, no AI allowed. Oct. 24 at @LightBoxExpo, honoring Yoshitaka Amano and Eyvind Earle. bit.ly/4zQI9jA #Animation #AnimationWorld