“We’ve all been working together as an industry,” Lee, tells Polygon. “We know what people are doing and feed off of each other, so it was more just this understanding that we’ve all been aspiring ...

When Flow won its best Animation Oscar in 2025, director Gints Zilbalodis' predicted that Blender, the free animation software used to make the movie, would revolutionise filmmaking, allowing young ...

We have something like 20 series in production. Twenty years ago, that would have been almost the whole animation industry. “It’s very surreal. I don’t really believe it,” says Shannon, who is ...

In an animation industry that increasingly feels overrun by consolidation, studio aversion to taking risks, and the proliferation of soulless automation, indie artists are launching their own studios ...