Nick Cross isn’t waiting for his chance to make an animated feature film – he’s just going to make the damn thing! But first, he needs your help. By way of indiegogo, where he successfully raised the money for his short The Pig Farmer, he’s begun raising $25,000 towards the project, which is titled Black Sunrise. The trailer below looks rather epic:

Todd Ramsay, who you may know as the creator of Honkbarn, recently took part in a feature documentary project. One Big Hapa Family explores Japanese multi-racial marriage in Canada, and the stories of several couples are brought to life with animation. Here’s Ramsay’s Flash-animated sequence:

Siggi Orri Þórhannesson produced this Flash-animated title sequence for the 2010 Icelandic film titled Kóngavegur (King’s Road). It’s about a son’s homecoming that doesn’t turn out quite like he’d expected.

A new 2D feature film out of Spain is gathering some strong critical reviews. Chico & Rita is set in 1948, and we follow two music lovers through a worldwide love affair that stretches across Cuba, New York, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas. The project was rotoscoped at Lightstar Studios in Brazil using Toon Boom Harmony, and HoBSoft built the pipeline. The US premiere was held at the Telluride Film Festival earlier this month, after which the Hollywood Reporter posted a glowing review, while somehow also slighting the plot as “paper-thin.” The 90-minute film was directed by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando and here’s the trailer.

Yoni Goodman has been busy these days. We posted his recent work from Ari Mark’s short film The Gift, and below is an animated segment from the Dawn Shapiro’s dramatic documentary feature film The Edge of Joy. Goodman used Toon Boom Harmony.

You can also read our exclusive CHF interview with Goodman from last year.