Rooster Teeth Announces Final Stream

Say goodbye to the studio that helped build streaming entertainment

"...be a livestream at 3pm, April 24, dedicated to animation smash RWBY, with a cast and crew retrospective looking..."

April 23, 2024 Screens Post

SXSW Film & TV Festival Announces Jury & Special Awards

Bob Trevino Likes It, Grand Theft Hamlet win top prizes

"...artistic purpose through multi-layered storytelling devices and phenomenal stop-motion animation that resonates emotionally with audiences. It's a rare story..."

March 14, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

An Outdoor Screening, Bluey Live, and More Lead Our Recommended Arts Events

Get out and art this week!

"...last year’s vibrant Pixar film Elemental, a cleverly crafted animation anthropomorphizing fire and water for main characters. Get to..."

March 15, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Queer Comedy, a Goth Market, and More Community Events

Recommended happenings for your calendar's approval

"...last year’s vibrant Pixar film Elemental, a cleverly crafted animation anthropomorphizing fire and water for main characters. Get to..."

March 15, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW Film Review: Dory Previn: On My Way To Where

A songwriter like no other gets an intriguing portrait

"...stitches together vibrant archival footage with Emily Hubley’s intriguing animation to essay Previn’s strange, complicated life and equally eccentric..."

March 12, 2024 Screens Post by Joe Gross

SXSW Film Review: The Antisocial Network

Dispiriting doc probes “insurrection for the lulz”

"...feature, not a bug (a metaphor re-enforced by meme-influenced animation overseen by animation director Tommy Rodricks). When a preppy-looking..."

March 11, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Play’s the Thing in Grand Theft Hamlet

Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane take arms against a sea of virtual troubles

"...footage for narratives), it was written off as cheap animation for nerds. For Crane, that was part of the..."

March 9, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Kung Fu Panda 4

The titular Dragon Warrior searches for his replacement

"...of it. Sure, the kids will giggle, and the animation is well-executed (even if there does seem to be..."

March 8, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Rodeo, a Pet Pfest, Country Dance, and More Community Events

Hit the town with these non-SXSW events

"...critical action today and tomorrow in the comics, gaming, animation, and multimedia storytelling arts,” Austin’s very own symposium for..."

March 8, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Rooster Teeth Shutting Down

Austin studio behind Red vs. Blue winding down after 21 years

"...using footage from the game Halo to create the animation. Originally run out of Burns' apartment in Buda, it..."

March 6, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Stopmotion

An animator starts to lose her mind in this chilling horror

"...and gave it life. That’s the art of stop-motion animation, too: taking immobile matter and giving it the semblance..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Strip Club: Lake Creek Festival Shopping Center

Sampling noodles, shoes, salsa, and silencers at the Northwest Austin strip mall

"...sneaker shop about vintage Air Jordans, when I notice animation stills from The Simpsons hanging on the wall –..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Food Feature by Taylor Holland

Last One Down the Mountain: Belated Thoughts on the Sundance Film Festival

Even virtually, the 2024 fest felt revitalized

"...Alternately mystifying, amusing, and philosophical, the film (which includes animation) tracks the couple’s meetings, attractions, separations, reunions, doubts, hesitancies,..."

Feb. 21, 2024 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation

Short film program celebrates the year's five nominees for Best Animated Short, plus two more commended shorts

Feb. 16, 2024 Movie Review

The Austin Film Society Is Hosting a Conversation With Don Hertzfeldt and Mike Judge

Hertzfeldt will present his new short film "Me"

"...contributed a thing or to the annals of American animation, too. (See: Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill.)..."

Feb. 15, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Touring Roster Applications Open Through January 31

Program pairs artists with paying gigs at nonprofit events

"...theatre, musical theatre, creative writing, storytelling, visual art, and film/animation are eligible to apply for the touring list. In..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Rooster Teeth Cancels RTX 2024

No annual convention for the local streaming studio

"...in 2017. Programming grew to include live concerts, an animation festival, and even international spin-offs, with RTX Australia (2016-18)..."

Dec. 20, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Boy and the Heron

Miyazaki's gorgeous but oddly obtuse return to animation

"...the moment’s physical adrenaline and panicked emotion through near-expressionistic animation paced like a furiously beating heart. It’s a gut-punching..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Gift Guide: The Movie of the Book

Five page-turners for the film fan in your life who wants the whole story

"...with a shape-shifting criminal was going to be Fox Animation's last-ever movie before it was bought and shuttered by..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Wish

We just wish that this animated feature for Disney's 100th anniversary was better

"...an animated film that celebrates 100 years of Disney animation, a film designed to appreciate the century of the..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Deep Sea

Gorgeous Chinese animated feature mixes wonderful fantasy with touching drama

"...is enough to satiate even the most gluttonous of animation fans, with the hyperrealistic Shenxiu crossing the hyperstylized seas,..."

Nov. 24, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Trolls Band Together

Boy band antics with the big-haired, big-voiced toys

"...jukebox musical films, known for their colorful and tactile animation and high-energy musical numbers, deliver again and even offer..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Hung Jury in Murder Trial of APD Officer Christopher Taylor Causes Mistrial

Jurors were deadlocked through four days of deliberation

"...bystanders recording on cell phones, and through a digital animation recreating the shooting. The other key fact for the..."

Nov. 15, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Defense Rests in Christopher Taylor Murder Trial, Closing Arguments Begin

Jurors visited site where Michael Ramos was fatally shot

"...a much narrower field of view than the state’s animation, indicating – in their expert’s view – that it..."

Nov. 7, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Here’s What You Need to Know About Murder Suspect Christopher Taylor’s Defense

Defenders say it’s all about perception

"...evidence last week, prosecutors showed video and a digital animation recreating the scene that shows Ramos driving away from..."

Nov. 3, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Unweaving the Tangled Web of Inspector Sun

Director Julio Soto Gúrpide on loving noir and insects

"...animals. What did you learn from Deep as an animation director that you could apply here?..."

Oct. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party

History of Australia's greatest sonic butchers

"...abuser, it's almost shocking that he has to use animation to reflect that: meet any noted 1980s Goth and..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Very Special Frasier at We Luv Video

130 animators come together for a tribute to the sitcom

"...recreating an episode of the beloved sitcom Frasier through animation – she had no idea that she would end..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie

Animated pup adventure opens surprising doors for talks with your kids

"...enough experience, with a surprisingly stacked cast and solid animation...."

Sept. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Fantastic Fest Review: Stopmotion

The artist subsumed by her art in chilling increments

"...and gave it life. That's the art of stop-motion animation, too: taking immobile matter and giving it the semblance..."

Sept. 28, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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