Alumni were credited across both of this year's top winners, The Pitt and Pluribus, with additional wins spanning Margo's Got Money Troubles, The Muppet Show, Palm Royale, Fallout, Hacks, and more.

Anyone can hit "record" on a phone and call it a podcast. Almost nobody does it well enough to make a stranger stop scrolling and hit play on episode two. The gap between those two outcomes isn’t luck, and it isn’t a pile of expensive podcast equipment — it’s process. If you’re trying to figure out how to start a podcast, or how to produce a podcast that actually sounds like a show instead of a phone call, this guide walks you through the exact production chain professionals use to turn a conversation into a polished, published episode, from the mic on your desk to the feed on someone’s phone.

Ninety years ago, a room full of Disney animators was quietly inventing the vocabulary of believable movement, years before anyone wrote it down as a rulebook. The 12 principles of animation wouldn't be published as a formal list until Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston's 1981 book The Illusion of Life, but the techniques trace back to the studio's earliest experiments with weight, timing, and personality on paper. Today those same rules get quoted in 3D animation software, motion graphics templates, and game engine documentation that nobody working in the 1930s could have possibly imagined. So the real question for a modern animator isn't whether the rules are old. It's whether they still work.