Sea Slug Animation Festival is drawing a hard line: no AI generated work. The Seattle fest is spotlighting animation made by actual humans, from hand drawn and stop motion to oil on glass and pinscreen, at SIFF Cinema Uptown Feb. 27 through Mar. 3.⁠

Thanks for the awesome reporting, Chase and @thestranger.com! We strive to uplift the art of animation, especially in our PNW community 💜🧡

Rev your engines! It’s the FURIOUS Edition trailer! 😤 We are coming to your screens FAST! We are putting dollars in artists’ pockets with a FURY! We’re back and we are 2 SLUG 2 FURIOUS!!! TICKETS AND PASSES ON SALE vimeo.com/1162644909?s...

Craving bite-sized works of art to get your animation fix? Come check out our short programs! Short film listings in the comments 🐛 Shorts I: Emotional Support Buddies 🐛 February 28 | 12:00PM 🌭 Shorts II: Big Bizzaro 🌭 February 28 | 4:00PM 🌷 Shorts III: Animation Altar 🌷 March 1 | 12:00PM

Look forward to looking back with a feature from the vault! 🌞 Retrospective Spotlight 🌞 Dédé (Ancestor) & Son of the White Mare February 28 | 7:00PM | SIFF Cinema Uptown More info on the films in the comments! Tickets and passes on sale February 6.

💢 Proud to Present ~ The FURIOUS Edition 💢 🔸 The Seattle premiere of ENDLESS COOKIE with a pre-recorded intro from the filmmakers 🔸 The 4K restoration of SON OF THE WHITE MARE 🔸 A SECRET finale screening 🔸 Three shorts packages blocks featuring 30 animated shorts for adults + filmmaker Q&As

We’re revving up for the Furious Edition… and ready to drop the Opening Night program! 🍪 Opening Night 🍪 Rita & Endless Cookie February 27 | 7:00PM | SIFF Cinema Uptown Info on the films in the comments!

Shout out to our man Zack!!!

Get in, it’s poster reveal time. 😤 Our good friends @zinehug.bsky.social continued the tradition of making animation visible in print, using the “onion skin” effect to show multiple frames in one image. You can buy a limited edition RISO print from Zine Hug at our Artist Alley on February 28!

In 2025, we hosted our very first Larval Edition. It was amazing, thanks to the incredible artists and audience members who joined us. But these larvae are all grown up now. And we’re p*ssed off! 💢 THE FURIOUS EDITION 💢 February 27–28 SIFF Cinema Uptown Save the date… 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🐌

Congratulations to Julian Glander for securing distribution!! We HIGHLY recommend ‘Boys Go to Jupiter’ here at Sea Slug ❤️🍊

The #SIFF2025 lineup just went live! With 245 films from 74 countries around the globe, there’s an excursion for everyone. 🎞️🌎 Tickets are now on sale to SIFF members. Access for the general public begins 4/24 10:00am PT. Explore the lineup: siff.info/festtw.

BREAKING: Annecy Festival selects 21 animated features for competition lineups. Here's the list accompanied by commentary from the festival's artistic director about why each film was selected for competition. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

youtu.be/BnjYR82MwAY?... begging everyone to watch these 2 gay little animals

Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!

The festival has been a Park City, Utah institution for over 40 years.

Some fantastic news amidst The Horrors!

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We are SO ready!!

‘Olive Place’ is a surreal cartoon set in a hotel with bizarre guests. Watch Cartoon Brew's Short Pick of the Day here:

🍊 You asked, he answered! 🍊 Julian Glander—director of the Larval Edition’s Opening Spotlight feature, BOYS GO TO JUPITER—has sent us a transmission from the East Coast in the form of a combo Q&A/apology video. vimeo.com/1066445060?s...

If you are in any creative or copyright dependent org of any kind, NOW is the time to speak up. You have until March 15 11:59 pm EST to send a note to the WhiteHouse on why we need to follow our current laws. We all lose if tech’s deranged agenda passes. www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

Thank you so much, Chase!

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It's nice outside! Tonight is the first post-6pm sunset of the year! 🌞 Come by and say hi! We've got fresh store-made paper pads and blank watercolor postcards with envelopes made from fun and unique misprint/test print Riso scraps!

The mini-documentary ‘Soft Skin’ profiles Palestinian children creating cut-out animated films as a means of processing and expressing their experiences through storytelling. Watch our Short Pick of the Day here:

Had the pleasure of animating a shot for the @seasluganimation festival trailer!! If you’re in Seattle this weekend you should come check out the festival! 🥳

"Flow" won the Oscar for Best Animated Film ♡

Underdogs Win! Latvia’s ‘Flow’ and Iran’s ‘In the Shadow of the Cypress’ win Oscars. The winners in both the feature and short animation categories are huge upsets by little films that weren’t backed by money, celebrity, or power. www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/under...

Honestly so many animals remind me of b-man I should draw a new b-manimal daily I think it’d be good for my mental health

🎬 Seymour goes to Sea Slug by the seashore! 🎬 Inspired by the diversity of animation and the tradition of reanimated collabs, Sea Slug worked with 12 West Coast animators to create our festival trailer—one artist per shot. vimeo.com/1057958651?s...

Spicylastic Book Fair is BACK! We're once again partnering with Wild at Heart (Seattle's neighborhood queer-owned sex shop) for a spicy romantic kinky queer book fair. Drop by Wild at Heart on Sunday 3/2 from 2 to 8 to check out some amazing comics in a sex/kink-positive, queer-friendly shop!

There's a new animation festival in town! @seasluganimation.bsky.social debuts at SIFF Uptown March 7–8, celebrating the ingenuity, creativity, & weirdness of independent animation for adults. We're not part of this fest—just sharing the news in the spirit of community! Tix: seasluganimation.com

They may not be giving away Magic cards but HRT is an extremely important and powerful project and needs your support. www.omprakash.org/global/distr... Donate to a cause that keeps us wanting to live and away from having to call a suicide hotline in the first place.

We're ✨🌀❤️feeling fantastic💙🌹✨ this Valentine's Day. #arcane

Cat's out of the bag. Flow will join the @criterion.bsky.social www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...

Sometimes a good short makes you happy you’re alive on this fragile mortal plane. Sometimes it makes you cry. Sometimes it does both, even on the fifth watch when you’re just checking the subtitles work!! 🦀 Shorts I: Everything Animated All At Once! 🦀 March 8 | 3:30PM | SIFF Cinema Uptown

Official Taiwanese poster for "Nausicaa" (in cinemas there on March 6). www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fuR...

Join instructor @izzyvonghoul.bsky.social next Tuesday, 2/18, for a Film Talk that takes a deep dive into the all-timer anime, AKIRA (1988)! And prepare for this talk by watching AKIRA at the UPT on 2/16.

And the line-up is live! Highlights: 🔹 The Seattle premiere of BOYS GO TO JUPITER followed by virtual Q&A with director Julian Glander 🔹 Two shorts blocks with filmmaker Q&As 🔹 An Artist Alley full of local artists 🔹 The return of the unstreamable ALLEGRO NON TROPPO Visit: seasluganimation.com

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights

If you want to impress your before-and-after Valentine's Day date: Three amazing animated shorts are to be screened on February 13 and February 15, with producer from MIYU Distribution to answer your questions. See the info in the image below and RSVP Here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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some more 3D nancy panel recreations 🚙

Our dear friends from @zinehug are not just masters of risograph-printed animation, but also of animation history. They imagined the poster for our inaugural “Larval Edition” as a phenakistiscope—the first widespread animation device, which paved the way for moving media as early as 1832.

Animation by James Baxter* | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

soup is a health potion

Only one month away—behold the gems in our Closing Retrospective: Allegro Non Troppo & Gina Kamentsky’s Pinocchio in 70mm Close out the festival with an explosive short about Pinocchio’s greatest wish, and the unstreamable ALLEGRO NON TROPPO! March 8 | 7:00PM | SIFF Cinema Uptown