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New on SMDB · festival Published on SMDB Source date Please qualifies for the Oscars with Nordisk Panorama's Best Nordic Short Film award Anna Mantzaris's felt-puppet stop-motion short Please is now an Oscar contender. Cartoon Brew's 2027 Oscars short-film contender profile (10 November 2026) says it qualified…

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Clip ParaNorman Norman + Neil: Best Friend Moments | LAIKA Studios Clip Missing Link Lionel + Link: Best Friend Moments | LAIKA Studios Full film / episode SEGA Cooro: エミーのモグラたたき セガこ〜ろでコマ撮りアニメ！第2弾『エミーのモグラたたき』 Full film / episode SEGA Cooro: 真島をさがせ！ セガこ〜ろでコマ撮りアニメ！第3弾『真島をさがせ！』

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making-of Published on SMDB Source date Apple's Hello, MacBook Neo: the launch film's interface was built by hand and shot frame by frame making-of Published on SMDB Source date Jarvis Cocker as a puppet: The Sleeping Forecast built in ten days and shot in two making-of Published on SMDB Source date Niki Lindroth von Bahr's The End: a miniature airport of waiting souls, four years in development release Published on SMDB Source date A new documentary on Ladislas Starevich shows how his hinged wooden puppets were made to perform making-of Published on SMDB Source date Blinkink's Let's Get Fuzzy for Levi's: a furred yeti, three cabins at three scales and fur left to move between frames making-of Published on SMDB Source date Joachim Hérissé's The Flesh Dress: textile puppets and a real-time 3D animatic for a stop-motion tale of an ageing dressmaker

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