About the Festival
Your Pacific Northwest hub for independent animation!
Sea Slug Animation Festival is a film festival in Seattle celebrating the ingenuity, creativity, and weirdness of independent animation from around the world.
Sea Slug showcases all animation mediums, with a special emphasis on films. Sea Slug strives to empower animators and animation fans local to British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and parts of Northern California to form personal and professional connections around animation, and to take pride in the talent right here in this neck of the woods.
✷Sea Slug showcases all animation mediums, with a special emphasis on films. Sea Slug strives to empower animators and animation fans local to British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and parts of Northern California to form personal and professional connections around animation, and to take pride in the talent right here in this neck of the woods.
In 2025, we hosted our very first Larval Edition. It was amazing, thanks to the incredible artists and audience members who joined us.
But these larvae are all grown up now. And we’re pissed off!
Artists are suffering blows from every which way, particularly in our corner of the world. The cost of living is rising but artists’ wages are not. Studios are prioritizing profit over creativity. Tech billionaires are thieving from artists in their race to wipe their skills from the face of the earth. Fascist governments are destroying the very fabric of society. It’s a pretty important time to build access, community, solidarity, and sustainability around independent art like animation.
So we’re absolutely OPENING THE THROTTLE for year two.
We’ve got independent animation coming to your screens FAST!
We’re putting dollars into artists’ pockets with a FURY!!
We’re back and we’re 2 SLUG 2 FURIOUS!!!!!!!
But these larvae are all grown up now. And we’re pissed off!
Artists are suffering blows from every which way, particularly in our corner of the world. The cost of living is rising but artists’ wages are not. Studios are prioritizing profit over creativity. Tech billionaires are thieving from artists in their race to wipe their skills from the face of the earth. Fascist governments are destroying the very fabric of society. It’s a pretty important time to build access, community, solidarity, and sustainability around independent art like animation.
So we’re absolutely OPENING THE THROTTLE for year two.
We’ve got independent animation coming to your screens FAST!
We’re putting dollars into artists’ pockets with a FURY!!
We’re back and we’re 2 SLUG 2 FURIOUS!!!!!!!