Site update — 2026-08-10

Catalogue: Today's rotation swept the tier-1 daily sources (Cartoon Brew, AWN - both returned only week/month-old items already covered), the weekly Cartoon Brew Stop Motion archive, r/stopmotion (blocked by fetch), the monthly CEE Animation site, and the quarterly Czech Film Commission animation-studios directory (31 studios listed, none previously catalogued as confirmed stop-motion houses). Cross-checked several TMDB-sourced 2025-2026 festival shorts (Life in the Clouds, Windowgazer, Agent Blue: Part 2, Nightingale, The Eye Of God, SCAR) but their only credited "director" is a handle/pseudonym (e.g. "Eyv", "XAF", "Mr. Friend") rather than a confirmed individual name, so no credits were added - consistent with the existing Apple Boy/CROWOOZE precedent; notes were updated so future runs don't re-fetch the same dead ends. Re-mined JPZtudio (Juan Pablo Zaramella, Argentina) end-to-end against zaramella.com.ar and found every short, series, and commissioned/branded film already catalogued with director credits attached. One genuine addition: Por una maleza. (2024, Argentina) now has a confirmed director credit for Ian Sale via TMDB (production-company field lists "ATP" but that identity is unconfirmed, so primary_studios stays Research needed pending a clearer source). Net: 1 new person, 1 new credit, 0 new works this run. · Site: Watch archive filter semantics and accessible result states · Wiki: Rig removal in stop motion, Bluescreen and Chroma-Key Capture in Stop Motion, Motion-Control Camera Work in Stop Motion, Paint and costume as puppet finishing layers, Multiple-exposure lighting passes, Fluid-frame animation with sand, paint, clay, and carved material, Focus pulling in stop motion