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SkwiglyVFXWildBrain announces strategic partnership with EightyEight Pictures to strengthen premium CG production WildBrain, a global leader in family entertainment, has struck a long-term strategic partnership with EightyEight Pictures (88 Pictures), a leading animation and visual effects studio, to strengthen…

SkwiglyVFXSkwigly Animation Podcast: Autumn 2026 Images: Dreamworks Animation, Justinv Sutcliffe Presenting episode 122 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast !

SkwiglyVFXIron Boy Review: Louis Clichy Creates a World “Indistinguishable from a Memory” © Sony Pictures Classics I wanted Iron Boy to draw me closer. Seeing myself in so much of main character Christophe’s story, I felt primed for the film to sweep me away, have me walk every step…

SkwiglyVFXDolores Dolores is seven. She only wants to play. Running from a fire demon, she falls into a grave, where two sinister corn husk skulls are waiting for a new playmate, one who would stay with them forever.

SkwiglyVFXWinner 6th Craft International Animation Festival 2026 MORE THAN HAPPY (Singapore, 2025) by Wei Keong Tan, picked up the Professional Craft Award SOUTHEAST ASIA COMPETITION OF ALL TECHNIQUES IN ANIMATION Professional Craft Award MORE THAN HAPPY…

SkwiglyVFXLondon International Animation Festival Announces 2026 Line-Up The London International Animation Festival (LIAF 2026), the UK’s largest, longest-running and most eclectic animation festival returns for its 23rd year celebrating the whole spectrum of animation…

SkwiglyVFX10 Events Not to Miss at Manchester Animation Festival 2026 Last year, I tried to narrow my Manchester Animation Festival highlights down to just five events. This year it feels like there is so much on offer, that I felt I had to up that number to ten.

SkwiglyVFXCzech Animated Short ‘Weeds’ Wins Emile Award for Best Animation | Maurfilm Scores Third Win in Two Years The Czech animated short Weeds , directed by Pola Kazak and produced by Maurfilm in collaboration with the Film Academy of Miroslav Ondricek in Pisek, has won the 2026 European Animation Award (Emile…

SkwiglyVFXAnimayo 2027 Animation Festival Launches International Poster Competition Animayo has opened submissions for its 2027 International Poster Competition , inviting designers and illustrators from around the world to create the official image for the festival’s 22nd edition.

SkwiglyVFXCEE Animation Forum Returns with 33 Projects and a Focus on Animated Series The 14th CEE Animation Forum will take place in Pilsen, Czechia, from 10 to 12 November 2026 , welcoming animation professionals from across Europe for three days of project pitching, industry…

SkwiglyVFXDiplodocus: A 12-Year Journey Comes to an End with New Making-of Documentary Diplo The Mighty Dinosaur © Signature Entertainment Polish filmmaker Wojtek Wawszczyk has released a 90-minute making-of documentary exploring the extraordinary 12-year journey behind his animated…

SkwiglyVFXThe Animation Showcase Celebrates 10 Years with New Collection of 15 Animated Shorts The Animation Showcase ’s 2026 collection is now streaming, bringing together 15 animated shorts selected from festivals around the world.

SkwiglyVFXINsight’26 Brings the UK Post and VFX Industry Together to Reframe Sector Value ©David Jones. Image provided by UK Screen Alliance UK Screen Alliance’s inaugural Post-Production and VFX Business Conference, INsight’26, brought together industry leaders, economists, technologists…

SkwiglyVFXThe British Animation Awards set to return in 2028 (Image: British Animation Awards) The British Animation Awards , the UK’s leading celebration of animation – known as the ‘BAAs’ – is set to return to London in 2028, marking a new chapter for the…

SkwiglyVFX“We will continue to do it until we can’t do it any longer” – the team behind Wildwood break down their latest adventure © Blackbear & Laika Ambition is at the heart of Wildwood . The latest film from Laika looks to stand out amongst cheaply, quickly made sequels to give the world something expertly crafted by some of…

SkwiglyVFXCGI Artist and Japanese Animation Director, Masaya Inaba joins Artificial Kreativity for a Kreative Talk Artificial Kreativity announces a Kreative Talk with CGI artist and Japanese animation director Masaya Inaba, exploring how traditional hand-drawn animation, background art, and CGI come together to…

SkwiglyVFXKreative Talk | Masaya Inaba + Japanese Animation Artificial Kreativity presents Kreative Talks with Masaya Inaba + Japanese Animation. Kreative Talks are the stories behind the creatives shaping the world.

SkwiglyVFX‘Wildwood’ Review: Was Laika’s 16-Year Journey Worth the Wait? © Blackbear & Laika Wildwood is obsessed with impressing you instead of immersing you. Its marketing has emphasised the 16 year journey to make the film, the meticulously crafted puppets, sets and…

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo