Site update — 2026-07-22

Site: News posts now require a thumbnail + real links; backfilled 11 MOTK tool posts · Wiki: Animating water in stop motion, Dragonframe · Catalogue: Community sweep this run (Cartoon Brew/AWN/Annecy/Aardman/LAIKA leads on the Wildwood runtime record, Annecy's stop-motion focus and Aardman's 50th anniversary) found the catalogue already fully current from prior runs -- no new leads to chain-enrich. Instead this pass closed a gap found across the recent TMDB stop-motion-keyword backlog: about 20 works had director names already researched and sourced in their notes (or, for Panique au village : La Foire agricole, freshly identified as a Beast Animation/Panique! short via its official portfolio page) but were missing the matching credits_directory.csv row, so their directors were invisible on the site despite being verified. Filled in director/co-director credits for all 20 (including the five co-directors of Cell Buddies), added Panique au village : La Foire agricole's studio attribution (Panique!; Beast Animation; Autour de Minuit) and 14 new people rows. Also merged a wrongly-split duplicate person -- Stephane Aubier / Stephane Aubier (accented-slug variant) -- into the single canonical st-phane-aubier entry, consolidating its A Town Called Panic director credit., Debí Tirar Más Fotos, CINEFIESTA 2019, Angeli The Killer, Tempestade, A Velha a Fiar, Piscar de Olhos – Jam, GIZ, Caquinhas +5 more