THR Animation Roundtable: Inside the Craft, Chaos and “Nerd Love” Behind This Year’s Top Contenders

The directors of this year’s best animated feature hopefuls talk inspiration, originality and why emotional truth comes before technique.
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Netflix's Love, Death and Robots finds the 'nerd joy' of adult animation

What happens when animation geeks get the greenlight to produce whatever they want? You get Netflix's Love, Death and Robots, an anthology series that's meant to remind viewers that cartoons aren't ...
Nerd Reactor

LAIKA and Portland Community College Team Up for Diversity in Animation

LAIKA, the studio behind animated films such as Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and Missing Link, has partnered with Portland Community College to foster diversity and ...
Nerd Reactor

Toho Animation Reveals My Hero Academia: You’re Next Key Visual and North American Release Date

Today, Toho Animation held the My Hero Academia Special Event during Anime Expo 2024, which had the world premiere of the extended English subtitled clip from the upcoming My Hero Academia: You’re ...
NPR

Nerd! How the word popularized by Dr. Seuss went from geeky insult to mainstream

It may conjure images of Family Matters' bespectacled, suspenders-clad Steve Urkel. Or the theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. Or Scooby-Doo's Velma. Or you may ...
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THR Animation Roundtable: Inside the Craft, Chaos and “Nerd Love” Behind This Year’s Top Contenders

No Oscar category showcases a broader creative spectrum than animation. Where else could a $10 million 2D philosophical French drama about death compete on equal footing with the sequel to a $1 ...