Sign up to get our news digest — delivered directly to your inbox twice a week. Beginning next February, channels applying to the YouTube Partner Program will need twice as many watch hours or Shorts views to qualify. That’s bad news for all newcomers, but particularly so for animators, given how long animated videos take to produce. Australia’s Flying Bark finally unveiled its highly anticipated Doomsweepers, a candy-colored 2D “zom-com” from creator-director Sarah Harper, developed with Olan Rogers and his Nashville studio Lightfold. Netflix released the first trailer for DANG!, its new Titmouse-animated sibling comedy from The Good Place veterans Andrew Law, Matt Murray, and Mike Schur.