A scientific study shows that watching experimental animation is good for your brain. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig... Animation: Jonathan Djob Nkondo.

It’s amazing seeing pages I follow to get inspiration from, like @cartoonbrew.bsky.social, sharing our short film. Thank you ♥️

Happy International Multilingualism Day! Today we released The Untranslatable Forest" is an award-winning 3D experimental short by Ivan Miguel (me!) and Andy Camou. Featuring a score by Bryce Dessner performed by the Kronos Quartet, it hit 65 festivals worldwide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQIP...

On March 27th, celebrate International Day of Multilingualism by watching the premiere of “The Untranslatable Forest” online. Link to the short film on Friday.

Spanish animated film "Decorado" is coming in North American theaters on May 15. Directed by Alberto Vazquez (Birdboy, Unicorn Wars). >> gkids.com/films/decora...

Hatsuboshi Gakuen "Wildest Flower" music video. Directed by Takashi Ohashi at studio CALF. Character designer : Yukie Nakauchi. Full MV >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiiL...

Our latest issue collects great, free resources for artists -- from a tutorial by animator James Baxter to a treasure trove of mid-century animation, and beyond: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/artist-res...

3rd March 1972 - Elton John released 'Rocket Man' as a single. The song was inspired by the short story "The Rocket Man" in the book The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, and echoed the theme of David Bowie's 1969 song 'Space Oddity'. #EltonJohn #RocketMan

Adobe announced it's killing off Animate (formerly Flash), abandoning millions of artists who depend on the software while continuing its push into AI-heavy toolsets. www.cartoonbrew.com/tools/adobe-...

Soon, all the films in close proximity to it will also be THE THING. Within the year, all films in the registry will be THE THING.

A must-read post for #Ghibli fans

When Teachers, Librarians, Vaccines, Big Bird, and Rainbows are your enemies... ...you might just be the 👉 BAD GUY 👈

Repost with an image from your comfort film.

Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study reveals. Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD

New York folks! Tonight at 8:PM ET our short is projected together with other international animated shorts as part of @animnightsny.bsky.social Check the following link for details and free tickets 🎟️ lu.ma/3270gn67

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

Alice Guy-Blaché, an early director who made thousands of films (at one point, her studio was putting out three a week!) but was erased out of the story of early cinema history... www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...

From: The Little Mermaid (1968), dir. Ivan Aksenchuk, Soyuzmultfilm

😚 💖 #muppets

Here some process, BTS and composition on “The kid, the bridge and the god of night” that I had previously shared.

When does “absolute Martian manhunter” arrive to Spain? This looks amazing and a source of inspiration.

"Avatar: Seven Havens" new animated series (set after "Legend of Korra") is in production. deadline.com/2025/02/avat...

"If the Titanic Sunk Today" by illustrator Pierre Brignaud. h/t @jimmypalmiotti.bsky.social

Using AI makes you worse at your job, btw. “Users with access to GenAI tools produce a less diverse set of outcomes for the same task, compared to those without. This tendency for convergence reflects a lack of personal, contextualised, critical and reflective judgement of AI output"

¿Sabíais que el logo de Turespaña (el Sol de España) no es de Miró? Bueno... sí lo es. Pero no lo hizo él. Bueno, sí. Pero no lo hizo para Turespaña. Y es un logo famoso en todo el mundo pero no es un logo... son dos carteles. Os cuento 👇

I’m into it!

The kid, the bridge and the god of the night.

The association of female comic-book artists from Spain @autorasdecomic.bsky.social, wrote a manifesto against the indiscriminate use of image generative Al, also they did a lot of cool drawings (and I wished in the motion community it would exist a similar kind of unity)

“The Spanish government removes the law decree to regulate AI due to the backlash of the sector of culture,”. The draft would have provided collective licenses to AI companies to use massive amounts of artists’ work without needing individual artists’ approval or having to compensate them for it.

The Clint Eastwood music video is iconic—it helped to turn Gorillaz into a phenomenon. But how was it made? Director Pete Candeland goes deep into that process in our new issue, talking anime influence, early CGI and three months with almost no sleep: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/making-the...

Animated opening of "Severance" Season 2, by Oliver Latta (aka Extraweg) again ♡ Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKT5... Interview >> www.latimes.com/entertainmen... S01 OP >> www.catsuka.com/news/2022-03...

Liam Wong Archive Collection, available via Volume 👀 ☂️ https://vol.co/collections/liam-wong-archive

One of the only possible issues of a Miyazaki movie is not having the chance to enjoy his amazing watercolors. Uno de los pocos posibles problemas de una peli de Miyazaki es no tener la oportunidad de disfrutar sus increíbles acuarelas.

McCarthyism redux

This is a strong example of what can be done with digital comics when you're willing to push both form and content beyond what's been done before. The author, Kristen Radtke, is here on Bluesky at @kristenradtke.bsky.social. H/T @austinkleon.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention. 🙏

I have been waiting for this, now I need a time consuming gig to ear-binge this. Bridge four! He estado esperando para esto, ahora solo necesito un largo proyecto para devorejarmelo. Puente cuatro!

This year, I launched Cat & Vac—a modern take on the classic cat-and-mouse game. If you enjoy it, please subscribe or share—because the internet can never have too many cats! www.youtube.com/@CatandVac #animation

This week was #25N, international day for the elimination of violence against women. The agency MUY brought me on to animate the illustrations by Janire Orduña, with design by Happyending Studio. The OOH was displayed in Bilbao and here’s a video of the campaign in the city’s main street.

This week was #25N, international day for the elimination of violence against women. The agency MUY brought me on to animate the illustrations by Janire Orduña, with design by Happyending Studio. The OOH was displayed in the center of Bilbao and here it is a video of the campaign on the subway.

I attended the interview to @albertmonteys.bsky.social about “Universe” by @borjacrespo.bsky.social in @jokercomics.bsky.social with @aiguanachein.bsky.social. Now I have the first volume in English(@imagecomics.bsky.social) and… the second one in Spanish(@astiberri.com) signed!

I say this right after having finished the show, so this probably will not old well, but #Arcane may have been this generation’s Akira. #hype Digo esto justo tras terminar la serie así que seguramente esto no envejecerá bien, pero #Arcane puede haber sido el Akira de esta generación. #hype

I don’t know about you, but I’m not looking forward to the weekend: I’m looking forward to ARCANE’s finale. What a glorious ride. No se tú, pero yo no le tengo ganas al finde: Le tengo ganas a la conclusión de ARCANE. Que gran viaje.