In the beginning, there was Snow White. Walt Disney’s lovely songbird made history in 1937, debuting in Hollywood’s first movie-length cartoon. It was an instant creative and financial sensation. Los ...

For many years, the use and growth of technology has facilitated animation’s development. From the early ages of the phenakistoscope disk (spindle viewer) or flipbook, to the invention of the zoetrope ...

Ian Failes of FXGuide has written an informative overview of how SpongeBob and company were translated from hand-drawn designs to CGI, and then composited into their live-action setting for the film ...

It’s hard to believe we’re in a world where the original Toy Story, the first fully computer-generated feature film, is more than 20 years old. Its computer animation was revolutionary for 1995, but ...

Nearly 60 years ago computer scientist Ruth Weiss of Bell Labs published a pioneering algorithm to turn three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional drawings from any angle. But she ran into a ...

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost. By Maya Phillips There are so many ways of ...

All about the stream: What is Animation? Animation is the art of drawing or capturing a sequence of still images, which are then digitally or manually manipulated to generate the illusion of motion.

The iPad has come a long way in the past few years, especially with the introduction of Apple's M-series processors into the lineup. With the power of desktop computers in such a tiny form factor, the ...