Site update — 2026-09-22

Catalogue: Today's community sweep (Cartoon Brew, AWN, Aardman/LAIKA news, Cartoon Movie 2026 pitches, Miyu's 'Animation in Conversation' beat) turned up no leads beyond what prior runs already fully catalogued -- Wildwood, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, Pokemon Tales, Once Upon an Egg and the Kuwahata/Porter/Mantzaris interview series are all already sourced and credited from earlier 2026-09 runs, confirming the catalogue remains current on the major festival/studio storylines. Redirected effort to five thin works whose director/institution was already established in existing notes or credits but never synced into the primary_studios field: Autophagy and Fish River Anthology now correctly read 'Royal College of Art' and 'Aalto University' (matching the site's graduation-film convention), and The Puppet Monster Massacre, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Two, and Mira were reclassified from 'Research needed' to 'Director Name (independent)' per their already-confirmed solo/self-produced production notes. Studio-mining rotation re-visited Woodland Animations (Ivor Wood's Postman Pat studio): Wikipedia and the Skwigly retrospective confirm its full stop-motion filmography (Postman Pat, Gran, Bertha, Charlie Chalk) is already catalogued; two further titles found, Postman Pat's ABC Story and 123 Story, are explicitly traditional cel-animation spinoffs per Wikipedia and were correctly excluded as non-stop-motion. Ten additional obscure 2023-2025 indie/student shorts (The Library, A Feast at the Palace, Amanita, A Single Day, Fear Is at Its Peak, Blank Out, grammatical bathroom, Coaxo, Confusion of the Afternoon, The Other Side of the Mirror) were researched but yielded no production-company or new-crew information beyond what TMDB already supplied -- left as Research needed with the attempt logged so future runs don't repeat the same searches. · Wiki: Animation director versus lead animator in stop motion