Don't miss a rare chance to see a childhood classic at the cinema this April as part of Cardiff Animation Festival! 🧙‍♂️📚✨️

Cardiff Animation Festival has unveiled its full 2026 lineup, featuring a Japanese animation focus, expanded games program, live events, and a packed industry program set for next month. www.cartoonbrew.com/festivals/ca...

Learn the unique art of model making with Aardman at one of three workshops across the weekend at #CAF26 and take home your very own Gromit or Shaun the Sheep!🐑 🗓Sun 26 April / Dydd Sul 26 Ebrill ⏰11:15am, 1:15pm, 3:15pm 📍Chapter Arts Centre 🎟Full programme & tickets - www.cardiffanimation.com

🎬 Cardiff Animation Festival | Gŵyl Animeiddio Caerdydd 🕹️ #CAF26 will showcase a vibrant, hybrid programme of events 23-26 April 2026! We hope you enjoy what we have in store and we’re looking forward to seeing you there! 🫶 Check out the full programme - www.cardiffanimation.com

This Saturday morning at Maesteg Town Hall! 🍿

It's the first Cardiff Animation Nights of 2026! ✨ Come along to The Underdog Cardiff at 7pm, Thursday 29th January for a night of international indie animated shorts! 🎟️ Free Tickets: bit.ly/4jCDKJZ

Take a trip to a world of bears and mice, where Ernest, a bear, and Celestine, a mouse, strike up an unlikely friendship together in a beautifully illustrated tale that feels like it's leapt straight from the pages of a story book! 🐻🐭 📅 Sunday 1st February 12:15pm 🎞️ Chapter 🎟 bit.ly/3NOGVSW

We’re back on Wed 11th Feb 7pm at Nortons Digbeth! Our special guests include Moth Studio and Chris Shepherd. We’ll have animators introducing their films and a chaotic costume from host Louis. The optional prompt is ‘IMPOSSIBLE’. Non-animators and animators welcome a-like. overlapsocial.com

Volunteer applications for Cardiff Animation Festival 2026 are now OPEN until 6 Feb!🎥✨ Are you interested in learning how an animated film festival operates, be part of a fun team 𝘢𝘯𝘥 attend a range of animation events for free?🌟 👉 Find out more - bit.ly/volunteer-2026

We’re super excited to share our brand new poster with you! 🤩 Designed by Cardiff based illustrator & animator Rhianna Berthoud! ✏️ We asked Rhianna a few questions all about the design process and creating playful characters in the poster! 👾 Read the full Q+A here: bit.ly/CAF26-Poster

Stretching my legs with some fairly active picks to start the year. #LastFourWatched

Volunteer applications for Cardiff Animation Festival 2026 are now OPEN until 6 Feb!🎥✨ Are you interested in learning how an animated film festival operates, be part of a fun team 𝘢𝘯𝘥 attend a range of animation events for free?🌟 Find out more & apply here ⇨ www.cardiffanimation.com/volunteer-2026

We’re delighted to announce the official broadcast of Cloth Cat’s 2D animated short film ‘The Ghost of Midwinter’. Commissioned by S4C and supported by the Creative Wales Skills Fund, ‘Ysbryd yr Oerfel’ will be screened live on S4C at 17:35 on Christmas Day! 🎄 #TheGhostOfMidwinter #YsbrydYrOerfel

Join Cardiff Animation Festival and Cynefin Caerffili for a festive double feature at Y Banc on Thursday 11th December!❄️ See The Nightmare Before Christmas at 5:30pm, followed by an unusual Christmas eve anime adventure with Tokyo Godfathers at 8pm🍿 🎟️Tickets and more info - bit.ly/Caerphilly-E...

🌟Watch a curated programme of Welsh Animation online!🌟 If you haven’t got a ticket yet, make sure to grab one so you're ready! You can stream the full programme from the comfort of your home, and all of the films have English, Welsh and Japanese subtitles available!🎬 🎟️ bit.ly/Watch-Wales-...

Call for Animation Entries: Submit your character-driven animated shorts for Pictoplasma’s official 2026 festival selection! Everything welcome, as long as its character-driven, “nice”, between 1-15 min, and reaches us before the deadline (Feb 2026). 📫 pictoplasma.com/animation

Join us for a screening of the delightfully magical feature film Penguin Highway, directed by Hiroyasu Ishida and adapted from the novel by Tomihiko Morimibat Chapter on Saturday 29th Nov!🐧 🎟️ - www.chapter.org/whats-on/caf... There will also be an anime comic workshop - tickets coming soon! 🔜

Enjoy an afternoon of anime and manga at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff on Saturday 29th November 3pm, join the brilliantly creative workshop where you’ll learn all the skills required to create your very own manga comic with local cartoonist and animator Josh Hicks! ✏️ 🎟 bit.ly/4pqF2JP

✨ Watch a curated programme of Japanese Animation online! Curated by New Chitose, see abstract pieces of exquisite sensitivity to boldly structured narrative works, we hope you'll discover the distinctive voices of Japan-based independent animators in this programme!🍿 🎬 bit.ly/Watch-Wales-...

Tickets are on sale now for our full line up of three incredible CAF x New Chitose #WalesJapan events! Enjoy a slice of Welsh & Japanese animation from the comfort of home including two shorts screenings and a recorded masterclass by ORIKASA Ryo & IWASAKI Hirotoshi! 🎟 bit.ly/WalesJapanEv...

Popped to the wonderful @mcranimation.bsky.social and came away with a fantastic selection for this week's #LastFourWatched!

A festival fueled #LastFourWatched... grateful to Kotatsu, LFF and Iris for screening these brilliant films here in Cardiff!

Don't be afraid... be terrified, Cardiff Animation Frights (Cardiff Animation Nights) brings a spooktacular selection of animated shorts to Chapter on Saturday 25th October 4:30pm! Witness a terrifying array of films created by a whole (g)host of talented animators! 🎟 bit.ly/CAN-Frights

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cardiff Animation Festival is excited to announce a brand new collaboration with New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival! 🇯🇵 To celebrate the collaboration, Asaki Nishino created a beautiful poster that encapsulates the collaboration between the two festivals and countries! 🩷

Revisit 90’s animated fantasy feature The Princess & the Goblin yn gymraeg at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on Saturday 27th September! The film starts at 2:30pm and tickets are £5 - £7! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see this classic on the big screen for the first time!✨ 🎟️ bit.ly/Tour-2025

Very much enjoying The Planets and Star Wars at the Proms on BBC 2 now - incredible to think of Holst composing these over 100 years ago and hearing the influence it had on Williams' scores. ✨️

Avoid the rain & soak up a glorious selection of #animation instead!! Did I mention it's FREE?!

Working on Halloween themes buildings and these hearses are making me laugh to draw My favorite part of doing this is doing little to no sketching so it’s the exact opposite of how I normally draw which is 40 of the same drawing on 40 pieces of tracing paper or layers

This Saturday 23rd August at 5pm, Cardiff Animation Festival presents INBETWEENS in partnership with @skwigly.bsky.social & Chapter! 🤩 Watch a selection of shorts on the big screen celebrating queer filmmaking and storytelling through animation! 🎟 Tickets: cardiffanimation.com/inbetweens

This Saturday 5pm at Chapter Arts Centre, Skwigly have teamed up with @cardiffanimfest.bsky.social to present INBETWEENS, a night of incredible animation with a focus on LGBTQIA+ themes. www.skwigly.co.uk/events/event...

Don’t miss SAVAGES – a stunning stop-motion film by Claude Barras set in the lush Bornean rainforest. After the film, join us for the chance to meet local conservationists & discover how you can get involved in protecting our environment 💚 🗓 13 August 1pm 📍 Chapter 🎟 bit.ly/Savages-CAF

Cardiff Animation Festival presents INBETWEENS in partnership with @skwigly.bsky.social & Chapter - an evening of contemporary animated short films exploring LGBTQIA+ themes & stories. The screening celebrates queer filmmakers & storytelling through animation. 🎟 www.cardiffanimation.com/inbetweens

Production Traineeship in association with Creative Wales and S4C Follow the link in our bio to read the full job description and to find out more about the candidate requirements. The deadline for applications is 5th September. clothcat.com/academy/prod... @s4c.cymru #moho #clothcatacademy

We’re back Thurs 28th Aug 7pm at Nortons Digbeth! @cartoonsaloon.bsky.social's Giovanna Ferarri is our special guest. The optional prompt is ‘FOLKLORE. Non-animators and animators welcome a-like. Reserve tickets / submit films at overlapsocial.com

On Sat 19th July 12pm, Savages has its first UK preview at Mockingbird Cinema, B9 4AA The film is Claude Barras’ follow up to OSCAR nom’d My Life As A Zucchini. GO! £11.45. 87mins. PG rating. Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/forwa...

Cardiff Animation Festival is back in 2026, 23- 26 April for another instalment of amazing animation & festival fun! 🥳 Regular submissions are now OPEN! 🚨 Head to our FilmFreeway to submit your work 🎞 Submit here: filmfreeway.com/CardiffAnima...

If I had a nickel for every time I've seen a film in 2025 starring Scarlett Johansson & Rupert Friend, with a score by Alexandre Desplat, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Discovered that Disney+ now has a great bunch of indie animated shorts on it, as well as several more in the Shorts category in Movies - check 'em out!

Don't miss out on a fresh batch of brilliant hand-crafted creativity in the form of another lovely free online screening!! ✨

🦜Earlybird submissions are open now!🎞️ Submit your animated short films for consideration at the next edition of Cardiff Animation Festival! Earlybird closes on Monday 30th June! Find out more information and how to submit your work: filmfreeway.com/CardiffAnima...

Join us on Sunday 22nd June, 3pm at Chapter for a screening of animated short films by the children of Gaza. All profits from the screening will go towards supporting Haneen's work so she can continue running animation workshops with children in Gaza. 🎟 www.cardiffanimation.com/gaza-shorts-...

1 month until #JurassicWorldRebirth, so what better time to pick up an original pack of Jurassic Park Topps collectible cards - I already had the book on them but despite my big JP collection, the cards were never something I collected.

Save the date! 📅 Send us your animated shorts! 🎞 See you next April! 🥳

It’s the final weekend that you can catch Cardiff Animation Weekender Online! ✨ Watch the following events until Sunday 1st of June! ✍️ In Conversation with Chris Shepherd 🧌 The Princess & the Goblin Q&A 🍊 Boys Go To Jupiter Q&A 🍿 Oska Bright Shorts 🎞️ CAF Shorts 🎟 Tickets: bit.ly/CAW-Online

My #LastFourWatched this week, featuring an unlikely double-bill...

Join us online TONIGHT for the Oska Bright shorts watch party! 🥳 Enjoy a a huge range of animation styles and themes in this eclectic shorts programme! So sit back, relax at home, enjoy wherever you are and chat with fellow festival goers in the live chat! 🍿 🎟 bit.ly/CAW-Watch-Pa...

𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙 𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 • 𝙊𝙉𝙇𝙄𝙉𝙀 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙂𝙍𝘼𝙈𝙈𝙀 If you didn't join us in-person, you can catch the Weekender online until 𝟬𝟭 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲! 𝐘 𝐃𝐲𝐰𝐲𝐬𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚’𝐫 𝐁𝐰𝐠𝐚𝐧 (𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧) 𝐐&𝐀 See the Q&A with crew on the cult classic, Welsh fantasy feature!✨ ⮕ www.cardiffanimation.com/weekender-on...

2 out of 4 in IMAX, but can you guess which ones? #LastFourWatched

Join us online for the first watch party TONIGHT! Enjoy a hand picked selection of animated short films screened at Cardiff Animation events over the last decade!✨ Sit back, relax at home and chat with fellow festival goers in the live chat! See you there at 8pm (BST)! 🎟 bit.ly/CAW-Watch-Pa...

From Team CAF, we want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone that joined us at Chapter! However, if you didn't manage to catch us in-person then don't worry, as the Weekender continues online until 1st of June! 🥳 Check out the full online programme here: www.cardiffanimation.com/weekender-on...