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More Than We Ever Thought

The Specialness of 'The Snowman'

Hayao Miyazaki's Image Boards

Time and Space the Miyazaki Way

Childhood Games

Ambition, Madness and 'A Christmas Carol'

A Haze of Alcohol and Confusion

Gift Ideas for the Animation Inclined

'The Unofficial Art of Coraline' Returns

Animating with Glass

Standout Films for Free

The (Unofficial) Art of 'Coraline'

How Satoshi Kon Storyboarded 'Millennium Actress'

'Hellboy' Cinematography

An Interview with Katsuhiro Otomo

Animating Gaza

A TV Ad Created Independent Animation

Perfecting Improv with Aardman

An Animation Visionary in Development Hell

A Hollywood Show Created Like an Independent Short

The Soviets, the Architect and Walt Disney

How They Shot Katsuhiro Otomo’s ‘Cannon Fodder’

Collage Animators in Their Own Words

Artist Resources We Love, Vol. 2

A Beautiful Sketchbook of a Film

The Avant-Garde Origins of 'Gumby'

Miyazaki, Takahata and 'The King and the Mockingbird'

Winning an Oscar, Losing Your Way

Storyboarding Around the World, Vol. 2

‘It’s Unbelievable That We Actually Pulled It Off’

The Fall of a Prince

The Art of Imperfection

'It Was a Pure Happiness for Me'

'And Walt Went Crazy'

Sixty Years Young

A Subtle Art with Visceral Power

The Strongest Girl in the World

The Other ‘Yellow Submarine’?

Art Directing 'Song of the Sea'

An Introduction to UPA

'We Did Not Know What Was Against the Rules'

The Phantom Legacy of Errol Le Cain

In-Betweening Is an Art Form

The Secrets of 'Magnetic Rose'

There's No Master Plan

The Making of 'The Last Unicorn'

The Birth of the 'Peanuts' Cartoon Series

'You Are Having a Festival for the Future'

Lin Wenxiao, the Outstanding Tiger General

Writing 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'

But Is It Anime?

Four Magical Minutes from Cartoon Saloon

A Visual Tour of Toei Doga

'One Can Make a Film on a Kitchen Table'

When Two Drawings Are Plenty

How 'Chicken Run' Stayed Aardman

'The Cow': Paint in Motion

Animating an Oscar Winner (Secretly) Behind the Iron Curtain

Turning Points in Hungary

'Run, Melos!' Shows the Power of Animated Realism

Lotte Reiniger's Living Characters

Craig McCracken on Creativity

Storyboarding Around the World

'Quentin Tarantino Would Not Like It at All!'

Animation During the Cultural Revolution

A Masterwork by the Master of Mistakes

America's Outsourcing Machine

Animating 'Almost There' from 'The Princess and the Frog'

The Making of 'The Swallows of Kabul'

Wardell Gaynor, Cameraman

Hope, Small but Strong

Regular Rabbits and Thousands of Faces

Hayao Miyazaki on Running

'The Old Man and the Sea' Is a Tremendous Spectacle

The Art of the Animated Music Video, Vol. 2

'Hidari' Is Stop Motion of a Different Kind

The Silencing of 'Glass Harmonica'

Global Nuclear War with John and Faith Hubley

'Windy Day' Is Immortal

'Mexico Can Compete With Stop Motion'

Aardman's Perfect Improv

'The Man Who Planted Trees' Was an Impossible Task

Drawing Hands

Two Years of the Animation Obsessive Newsletter

The Wild Imagination of Mee's Forest

Who's Afraid of Norman McLaren?

When Rotoscoping Goes Very, Very Right

How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki

The Surreal Whimsy of 'Tortov Roddle'

A Very Famous Man

The Bomb That Is 'The Bath'

Dark Visions in Walnut Wood

The Low-Key Power of 'The Portrait Studio'

'I Mainly Do It for Emotional Effect'