Ankama has made a massive push for international exposure as of late with a launch of a new Krosmoz Youtube Channel and new international dub releases for their content. They are marching into the 3rd age of the world of Wakfu and they have put one of their most beautifully animated movies Julith (2016) up to watch completely for free on Youtube.
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452. Wildwood
LAIKA’s latest stop-motion masterpeice Wildwood has come to theaters and it’s everything you would expect. A beautiful hand-crafter, hand animated fairy tale adventure based on the first book of the Wildwood Trilogy. And it knocks everything out of the park so well that it doesn’t even look like stop-motion at times. Toon in for our discussion on LAIKA’s 6th film!
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The Best Steampunk in Animation
The turning of gears. The hissing of steam releasing from a valve. The churning crunch of a machine in motion signifying technological advancement and adventure. Hold onto your top hats, we’re diving into Steampunk in animation!
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5 Scary Halloween Cartoon Facts from History
It’s the final week of Halloween season and we thought it would be fun to drop a few Halloween Cartoon Facts. These deal with some small rumors and interesting information regarding some amazing Halloween themed animated shorts, and movies. Toon in below for some frightening facts in animation history.
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Electro Andes: A New Look at Cyberpunk, Horror and Action
Animation pilots are all over youtube right now but some will always stand out. Electro Andes by Bellolandia Studios has been highly anticipated since they dropped their first concept trailer over 2 years ago.
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451. Red Iron Road
It’s Halloween season and we are jumping in to rank an anthology horror series, Red Iron Road. Six Animated Horror episodes based off of European folk tales from Russia, Hungary and even Tolstoy’s work. Hop on and find out our definitive rankings of all six of these stories, which ones are top tier and which leave more to be desired.
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Seven Disney Sins: The Most Sinful Disney Villains
Disney Villains have long been icons as the best baddies in animated films and with good reason. The only higher standard of evil on a large scale would definitely be the contemporary list of the Seven Deadly Sins
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Studio Wrong: Comedy Horror Done Right
Bloody Mary is the pilot episode of Studio Wrong’s series. A ghost hunter named Betty and a demon deer girl named Sika enter into a haunted house and find the famous Bloody Mary ghost. The humor in this short is great with perfect slapstick comedic timing.
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450. Forgotten Island
Forgotten Island is Dreamworks latest animated film written and directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado the pair that brought us Puss in Boots: Last Wish. So I was on board from the start and the movie only affirmed it. A great buddy adventure about the importance that the small memories in our lives shape us and help us grow into the people we are.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: How to Build Suspense and Fear
I’ve been giving Halloween animation recommendations for years on the AD Podacast but for some reason I never really focused much on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Even though there is a segment of this special burned into my childhood memory because of just how terrifying it was for my young sensibilities.
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5 More Animated Horror Shorts to Watch This Halloween (2026)
We’re back with another five Halloween animated shorts that you can watch for free online, right now to get into the scary mood for the holiday. Without any further ado, here are five (or more) animated horror shorts!
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449. X-Men ’97 Season 2
We’re back to Marvel and mutants for X-men ’97 Season 2! Apocolypse, the X-Men’s most evil foe is running through the time stream and we get to see a lot more X-characters, X-teams and X-ternals! X marks the spot on all the… you get the idea right? We are diving back into the new nostalgic hit X-men ’97.