The Tonko House co-founder teams with popular Japanese comedian Akihiro Nishino on a compelling new short film that combines the artistry and palpable emotionality of stop-motion animation with a powerful narrative exploring themes of addiction and personal growth.

12 animated features have been chosen to compete at this year's festival, including ‘Memoir of a Snail’ by Adam Elliot, ‘Rock Bottom by María Trénor,’ and ‘Savages’ by Claude Barras; the 48th edition of the festival runs June 9-15.

The platform, now in beta, allows authors to generate animated experiences in just a few hours, utilizing GPT4 for interpretation, Stable Diffusion for animation, Eleven Studios for voice, and multiple individually created artistic styles.

The ‘Black Sails’ actor and Emmy-nominated writer present an ambitious 140-page sci-fi epic from new graphic novel publisher The Lab Press, now live on Kickstarter.

The terrifying horror game phenomenon becomes a theatrical franchise, with the second installment from the studio behind ‘M3GAN’ and ‘The Invisible Man’ set to hit theaters Fall 2025.

The upcoming one-off, which touts both animation and live-action elements, takes place during Eurovision 2989, with both alien and human contestants competing for a prize that may save Earth from extinction.