Site update — 2026-08-12

Site: Unified Watch media player with SMDB-added and release-date sorts, Studio/People/decade/format/craft filters, and integrated BTS · Catalogue: Community sweep (Cartoon Brew, AWN, Nordic Animation, Sunrise Animation Studios, PFCAT/Skwigly/AWN coverage) found the recent-news layer already fully captured by prior runs -- the PFCAT 2026 lineup leads (Memory Hotel, The Lure of Ponies, She Creates Change: Dewmini, You Play Too Much) were all already sourced with director credits, so effort redirected to two under-mined pools: (1) three long-standing duplicate work rows under alternate English titles (Edison & Leo / Edison and Leo, Louis & Luca: The Big Cheese Race / Louis and Luca - The Big Cheese Race, Curucuru and Friends / Kuru Kuru and Friends) were linked via canonical_work_id to their already-enriched twin instead of being re-researched from scratch; (2) 13 older 'Research needed' feature/series rows (2005-2016) were filled with sourced studios and/or director credits: The Secret Agent's Holy Motion studio was pulled from its own existing notes, and fresh research confirmed Murderous Tales (Total HelpArt T.H.A.), Sky Song (Nukufilm), The Ugly Duckling (Stayer), Moomin and Midsummer Madness (Se-ma-for compilation), Saving Mother (Shanghai Animation Film Studio), Among the Thorns (Zigzag Animation), Davie & Golimyr (Ageless Animation; Lumenas Studios), Holidaze (BixPix Entertainment et al.), Desmond & the Swamp Barbarian Trap (Dockhus Animation AB), Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (You've Got Bad Taste Productions; Hellcat Films) and The Three Musketeers (ABOOM; Zentropa Entertainments3; Ink). Disaster! and Queen Crab got director/producer credits but no confirmed studio (genuine gap, not a lookup failure). 10 new people added, 15 new credits added, 0 new works (all enrichment of existing rows)., Haru-tsuge Fish and Fu-rai Boy: Natsukusa no Tsuribariuo, onちゃんの きょうはどんなかんじ？, Horacio y Los Plasticines, Puerto Papel, Amelia, an Epic Short Story · Wiki: Mixed-media stop motion: designing the boundary between physical and graphic techniques, Ball-joint support rig, Stereoscopic 3D shooting and review tools in Dragonframe, Paper-built puppets for stop motion, Costume engineering for stop-motion puppets, Rehearsal and blocking in stop motion