The new film festival, hosted by New York's French Institute Alliance Francaise, will be held Feb. 2-4. By Gregg Kilday Freelance Contributor The inaugural edition of Animation First, which bills ...

Arco uses a minimalist blend of 2D and basic 3D animation tools with key imagery crafted using French software TVPaint. “For ...

Fueled by a robust educational pipeline and the steady influx of foreign investment, France’s animation ecosystem continues to expand. In 2021, animated programing accounted for 33% of international ...

The French animation powerhouse returns to Cannes with 'A Magnificent Life,' his love letter to Marcel Pagnol, who revolutionized cinema and even had the idea to tax movies decades before Trump. By ...

France’s animation industry is thriving, according to the latest figures published by the country’s national film center, the CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée), during the Annecy ...

In just its third year, the Animation First Festival — a three-day celebration of French animation hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) — has quickly become one of the essential ...

Gobelins, l’École de l’image, the Paris institution renowned for its department of animation, announced their new free massive open online course (MOOC) last month at the Annecy International Animated ...

For one week in June, much of the world’s animation business gathers at the Annecy Animation Festival in the French Alps. Beyond the U.S., no animation presence is as important as France’s. This isn’t ...

After closing out last month’s Cannes competition, Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Most Precious of Cargoes” opened this year’s Annecy Animation Festival on an auspicious note. With French productions ...

French public authorities have long targeted TV animation as a strategic sector, partly due to the fact that it’s an eminently international sector, given the ease of dubbing, and because it’s also ...

Têtes à Claques, or Tac.tv, has rocketed to become one of the top 20 entertainment sites in Canada. Find out how this quirky animation site is trying to attract English-speaking fans with a new ...

PARIS — The natural habitat of the Lorax, the fantastical protagonist of Dr. Seuss’ environmental fable, is a forest. For the moment, however, the Lorax lives atop a parking garage in central Paris.