With The Wild Robot flying into theaters via DreamWorks, Kambole Campbell sits down with director Chris Sanders to explore the film’s breathtaking hand-painted visuals and evolutionary vocal performance from Lupita Nyong’o.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Pablo Berger tells Kambole Campbell about his first-time adventure in the world of animation with Robot Dreams, featuring ’80s New York, endless storyboarding and wordless connection.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem director Jeff Rowe and production designer Yashar Kassai on mining inspiration from high school sketchbooks, their favorite anime series and, oui oui, the French New Wave.

At Annecy 2023, animation correspondent Kambole Campbell chats with directors Nick Bruno and Troy Quane and graphic novelist ND Stevenson about bringing their titular shape-shifting heroine to the big screen with Nimona.

Kambole Campbell talks with Suzume director Makoto Shinkai about navigating the trauma of Japan’s largest earthquake, hiding Miyazaki Easter eggs and animating a three-legged chair-boyfriend.  

Unicorn Wars director Alberto Vázquez explains the bloody military mayhem of his Bambi-meets-Apocalypse Now war-epic, forest-survival movies, and working with friends.

As the Annie Awards and Oscars approach, Kambole Campbell catches up with Turning Red’s director about the reaction to her semi-biographical hit, Tuxedo Mask as ideal male ally, and why there are five of 4*TOWN.

As Henry Selick revisits the underworld of stop-motion with Wendell & Wild, the animation auteur chats with Kambole Campbell about deg creepy creatures, collaborating with Jordan Peele and why it’s good to scare children a little.

Inu-oh director Masaaki Yuasa on medieval gender fluidity, animating music and movement, and the timeless rock act of playing a biwa behind your head.

Pixar filmmaker Angus MacLane opens his Letterboxd to share formative childhood movie memories and the patrilineal roots of the real Buzz Lightyear.

A pair of false teeth in a pint glass, students in his house on Saturdays, building it “bit by bit”. Stop-motion master Phil Tippett tells animation correspondent Kambole Campbell what it took to bring to life his 30-year vision for Mad God.

As Top Gun: Maverick enters box-office record books and the Letterboxd Top 250, aerial coordinator Kevin LaRosa II takes us into the cockpit for insights into pulling those eight-G stunts.