AI can generate striking images, but keeping characters, costumes and locations consistent across an entire film…
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Sutra Digital packs four Indian IPs for Cannes
Picture a Maratha warrior galloping across a Deccan ridge, sword raised, drawn with the wide eyes…
Indian animation studios turn YouTube into their launch pad
A toddler somewhere in Jakarta taps a bright thumbnail. A cartoon boy with a tuft of…
Into the woods with ‘Vvaan’
Indian folklore was creeping out of the shadows and into a haunted forest. The Vvaan: Force…
The best VFX in ‘Haiwaan’ is the bit you never spot
When the visual effects in a film did their job, nobody clapped. Nobody even noticed. That…
88 Pictures marks 10 years of dreaming big and building bigger
A decade ago, 88 Pictures started with a dream. Now, that dream spans Mumbai, Bengaluru, Toronto…
How Agnès Patron turned memories of siblinghood into the animated short ‘To the Woods’
Some films shout. ‘To the Woods’ whispers, and somehow that’s louder. French animator Agnès Patron’s short…
Choosing one means losing all the rest: Alice Eça Guimarães on Sylvia Plath’s influence on the film
There was a particular cruelty in a day off that wasn’t one. For millions of working…
Old friends, new frames: Japanese animator Kohei Kadowaki turns a decades-long silence into Annecy gold
Some stories need no Hollywood budget. Kohei Kadowaki’s animated short We Are Aliens, selected for the…
Fur, fear and a French title: the stoats taking animation festivals by storm
Survival rarely came with a script. Animals didn’t get to explain their terror, narrate their grief…
Digitoonz heads to Annecy with a pack of ‘Tiny Terrors’
Forget cuddly mascots. India’s Digitoonz marched into Annecy 2026 with a gang of small, mischievous creatures…
A fire, a prison and a story that refuses to stay quiet
Some stories arrived with sirens. Others arrived in a letter, smuggled out between the lines of…