In 1908, Émile Cohl's short film Fantasmagorie became the world's first animated cartoon. Before this groundbreaking achievement, stop-motion techniques were used to bring inanimate objects to life.

The Animation First Festival, the largest animation festival in the country (and the only francophone animation festival), is returning to the Big Apple this February, bringing with it stateside ...

In the 1930s, Disney Animation proved that cartoon movies could bring people to theaters and make as much money as a live-action drama, action, or horror movie. For many years, Disney was the king of ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

2025 marks the 8th year of the Animation First Festival hosted by L’Alliance New York to showcase French and Francophone animation for U.S. audiences. The festival showcases screenings of ...

The U.S.’s largest animation film festival is heading to New York City next month for the 8th edition of Animation First. This year, Animation First will celebrate the medium with seven feature films ...

The first animated feature in 15 years by the acclaimed French filmmaker Sylvain Chomet, the “Triplets of Belleville” creator, is a biopic of another artist who never lost his ability for wonder and ...

Ever since Beauty and the Beast became the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture in 1992, it finally felt as if animation was being recognized. An art form widely appreciated but rarely ...