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Emerging Ukrainian Animator Mary Yanko Discusses...

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2025/10/29

In just a few years, Ukrainian filmmaker Mary Yanko has established herself as an original, emerging voice in animation. Splitting her time between Kyiv and Paris, with a background in fine art and animation, she has been remarkably prolific since graduating from Gobelins in 2022. While still a student, she co-directed one of the 2020 […]The post Emerging Ukrainian Animator Mary Yanko Discusses Latest Project ‘Kateryna’: Interview appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Anfield Road | Q&A with Chris Shepherd

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2025/09/23

A long-established mixed-media filmmaker, last year saw Chris Shepherd redirecting his visual arts skillset – that has given the world such films as The Broken Jaw, Dad’s Dead, Silence Is Golden, The Ringer,Who I Am and What I Want and Johnno’s Dead among others, including music videos and contributions to cult comedy series Big Train and […]The post Anfield Road | Q&A with Chris Shepherd appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Spotlight on Kosovan Animation: Interview with Rising...

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2025/09/19

Before visiting Anibar this year – Kosovo’s only animation festival – I must admit my knowledge of Kosovan animation was mostly limited to the festival itself, which has now been running for 16 years. Much of Kosovo’s animation industry today originates from Anibar and the community it has cultivated. Although Kosovo’s animation scene is still […]The post Spotlight on Kosovan Animation: Interview with Rising Star, Flaka Kokolli appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Diplo: The Mighty Dinosaur – Interview with...

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2025/09/16

Twelve years in the making, Diplo: The Mighty Dinosaur certainly had a series of development and production hurdles ahead of it to try and create something different for animated films aimed at children. The efforts behind this small team of animators on this Polish production have finally paid off, as not only will it see […] The post Diplo: The Mighty Dinosaur – Interview with Writer/Director Wojtek Wawszczyk appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Two Black Boys in Paradise | Interview with Dean...

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2025/08/23

In anticipation of the second edition of INBETWEENS – Queer Animation Screening, this time happening at Cardiff Chapter in collaboration with Cardiff Animation Festival, we had the chance to dive deeper into one of the films that will be screening on Saturday the 23rd. Based on the poem by Dean Atta, Two Black Boys in […]The post Two Black Boys in Paradise | Interview with Dean Atta, Baz Sells, and Ben Jackson appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Bread Will Walk | Q&A with Alex Boya

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2025/08/08

Continuing a fruitful creative relationship with the National Film Board of Canada, Bulgarian-born, Montreal-based animator Alex Boya‘s latest film Bread Will Walk is an examination of ‘dystopian absurdity […] where the grotesque and poetic intersect’ told through 4,000+ hand-drawn, ink-on-paper frames embellished via a unique cocktail of digital and photocollage processes. In a world where the […]The post Bread Will Walk | Q&A with Alex Boya appeared first on

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Tyree Dillihay & Michelle Ramio Kouyate on Sony’s Goat

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2025/08/06

One of the standout presentations at the 2025 Annecy festival was for the next Sony Pictures Animation feature, Goat. Since the first Spider-Verse movie, Sony have had animation fans hanging on to their every project, and Goat promises to satiate fans of the animation style which the studio has become synonymous with. Goat, a coming […] The post Tyree Dillihay & Michelle Ramio Kouyate on Sony’s Goat appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Savages | Interview with director Claude Barras

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2025/07/31

Tomorrow sees the UK release of Savages, a new stop-motion animated feature from director Claude Barras. His first feature since 2016’s enormously successful My Life as a Courgette, Savages is co-written with Catherine Paillé and Morgan Navarro and sees Barras look to his own Swiss heritage and its parallels with the Penan people of Borneo […] The post Savages | Interview with director Claude Barras appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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The Bad Guys 2 | Interview with director Pierre Perifel

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2025/07/25

Summer blockbuster season is a sequel-rich section of the calendar, and DreamWorks is getting in on the fun. The Bad Guys 2 has seen a relatively quick turnaround for animation (especially when compared to the Spider-verse films) coming three years after the first, a sign of how much the studio believes in the franchise and […]The post The Bad Guys 2 | Interview with director Pierre Perifel appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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INBETWEENS Filmmaker Focus: Jessica Meier

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2025/07/07

Bristol Animation Meetup (BAM), an initiative of Skwigly Online Animation Magazine, Rumpus Animation and Sun & Moon Studios, has teamed up with Bristol’s Encounters Film Festival and Cube Microplex on July 8th to present INBETWEENS, a special celebration of queer animation cinema. Curated by local animator Luzie Ilgner, the screening showcases a playful, heartfelt, and thought-provoking mix of animations that either explore LGBTQIA+ themes […]The post INBETWEENS Filmmaker Focus: Jessica

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INBETWEENS Filmmaker Focus: May Kindred-Boothby

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2025/07/02

In our latest episode of Animation One-To-Ones, Skwigly writer Luzie Lilie speaks with May Kindred-Boothby, director of the RCA short film The Eating of an Orange. A director, animator and writer based in Bristol, May Kindred-Boothby has worked freelance within animation for around 9 years. Her work focuses on surreal explorations of sexuality and convention, […]The post INBETWEENS Filmmaker Focus: May Kindred-Boothby appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Jude Brownhill on Pixar’s ‘Elio’ and the Art of...

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2025/06/24

2025 is a monumental year for Pixar as they release a brand new original animated feature Elio, and celebrate the 30th anniversary of their first original Toy Story. Pixar’s Elio is a cosmic coming of age story that follows an 11-year-old boy who unexpectedly becomes Earth’s ambassador to the galaxy. Behind the scenes of an […]The post Jude Brownhill on Pixar’s ‘Elio’ and the Art of Animation Supervision appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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INBETWEENS Filmmaker Focus: Steven Fraser

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2025/06/20

Bristol Animation Meetup (BAM), an initiative of Skwigly Online Animation Magazine, Rumpus Animation and Sun & Moon Studios, has teamed up with Bristol’s Encounters Film Festival and Cube Microplex on July 8th to present INBETWEENS, a special celebration of queer animation cinema. Curated by local animator Luzie Ilgner, the screening showcases a playful, heartfelt, and […]The post INBETWEENS Filmmaker Focus: Steven Fraser appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Piripenguins – Interview with Series Creator Massimo...

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2025/05/15

Nearly four years have passed since I last interviewed Massimo Fenati, who was then discussing his work as the director of the Channel 4 Christmas special The Abominable Snow Baby. And in such a short space of time, he directed Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures for the BBC, and became a co-founder of Eaglet Films […]The post Piripenguins – Interview with Series Creator Massimo Fenati appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Autism Awareness Month: Interview with Zachariah...

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2025/04/10

Our series of interviews for Autism Awareness Month has returned, where I previously had the privilege to speak with talented neurodiverse people who work in the animation industry. From television creators and writers of iconic television shows to popular YouTube animators with millions of viewers to celebrated directors from acclaimed studios, I have been honoured […]The post Autism Awareness Month: Interview with Zachariah OHora, Creator of Carl the Collector appeared first on Skwigly

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Michael Cusack on YOLO: Rainbow Trinity

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2025/03/24

Michael Cusack is making a pledge for being the busiest man in animation. The showrunner of Adult Swim’s blossoming flagship series Smiling Friends (alongside co-creator Zach Hadel) and Hulu’s alternate reality superhero romp Koala Man has now delivered the third season of his long-running series YOLO, named Rainbow Trinity. Starting as a series of shorts […]The post Michael Cusack on YOLO: Rainbow Trinity appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Win or Lose | Q&A with Carrie Hobson and Michael Yates

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2025/03/12

After premiering an episode at Annecy 2023 and a series of delays, Pixar’s first original series, Win or Lose, is out in the world. The show makes full use of the TV format, chronicling a week’s worth of events leading up to a middle school softball game from the perspective of a different character each […]The post Win or Lose | Q&A with Carrie Hobson and Michael Yates appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Flow | Interview with Oscar winner Gints Zilbalodis

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2025/03/03

Flow, which last night picked up the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, is a major achievement. The film follows a cat’s journey to surviving a biblical flood, an adventure through an unfamiliar version of Earth that forces it to build relationships with animals it previously saw as predators. Made entirely in Blender, the […]The post Flow | Interview with Oscar winner Gints Zilbalodis appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Producing Animation: Takashi Washio (Magic Candies)

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2025/02/28

Oscar-nominated short Magic Candies (Dir. Daisuke Nishio) takes a gorgeous, magical realist approach to exploring the ideas of empathy and perspective through the eyes of children. It follows Dongdong, a lonely child who discovers a bag of candies that anthropomorphises objects around him. Through a more light hearted conversation with his sofa, he learns a […]The post Producing Animation: Takashi Washio (Magic Candies) appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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Yuck! | Q&A with Loïc Espuche

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2025/02/27

In a mostly adult-focused category, Yuck! stands out as one of two Oscar-nominated animated shorts to follow children. It’s a charming, innocent look into a kid’s first experience with romantic feelings, and the urge to express those feelings through kissing, something found utterly repulsive by his peers. The minimal 2D animation uses block colours to […] The post Yuck! | Q&A with Loïc Espuche appeared first on Skwigly Animation Magazine.

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