For decades, mainstream animation has followed a familiar pattern: big studios, bigger budgets, and layers of corporate oversight that tend to flatten creative risk. But now, that formula is being ...

Locksmith Animation, the studio behind Ron’s Gone Wrong and That Christmas, will launch their first indie animated project, Wed Wabbit, at this year’s European Film Market (EFM). Timeless Films will ...

The voice actor discusses why indie animation feels soulful and why live-action success doesn’t come without fear.

In the animated film space, two things naturally come to mind: stories for children and big-budget, formulaic projects. The former idea is something directors have been fighting for years, a recent ...

The Animation Guild has completed unionization drives at three animation production studios, including SpindleHorse, the indie animation studio behind the Amazon Prime/A24 series “Hazbin Hotel” and ...

Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano’s indie animation studio SpindleHorse (Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss) is working on an animated pilot based on Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck. Revealed over the weekend at Animate ...

Indie animation producer and distributor GKIDS and Japanese stop-motion animation studio Dwarf announced that they will jointly develop a new animated film based on the original autobiographical manga ...

The first episode of Christo The Civilized Barbarian has been released, illustrating a new chapter in adult animation. Created by Shaddy Safadi, an award-winning art director and co-founder of the ...

Independent animation is having a real moment in 2025, and Julian Glander’s surreal debut feature, Boys Go to Jupiter, playing at the Hi-Pointe Theatre from August 29-31, is a more than worthy ...

The 2025 Annecy Animation Festival proved once again that the annual French event stands strong as the capital of global animation. Attracting top indie talent from around the world, the biggest ...

Saturday, September 13, Metrograph will host Made in New York: Best of NYC Indie Animation, a one-night-only showcase celebrating the city’s scrappy and inventive animation scene. The 73-minute ...