Let's Do Brunch

Excited to again be involved in another edition of Cardiff Animation Festival, which this year takes place April 23rd-26th at Chapter Arts Centre. I'll be there with Laura-Beth to present a few Skwigly brunch events including a book presentation 10am Friday 24th (talking Intimate Animation alongside Joanna Quinn, Les Mills and Greg McLeod discussing their own recent literary ventures) and filmmaker Q&A sessions on the 25th and 26th. See you there! 

• Animators Brunch: Skwigly Book Club
• Animators Brunch: Q&As with Skwigly 
• Full programme

Podding Along

In episode 120 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast we welcome Ugo Bienvenu, who joins us to discuss his film Arco, out this month in UK cinemas. 

Also discussed: The increasing sneakiness of AI creators passing their content off as animation, adult fandoms of popular children’s shows, pleasing Oscar and BAFTA outcomes with wins for The Girl Who Cried Pearls (Dir. Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski) and Two Black Boys in Paradise (Dir. Baz Sells), Aardman‘s upcoming Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, upcoming Cardiff Animation Festival highlights, the ‘social experiment’ of Konstantin Bronzit’s Oscar-nominated short The Three Sisters and we review the recent BBC series Small Prophets featuring animation by Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson.

Animation Podcasts | Skwigly · Skwigly Podcast 120 - Spring 2026