July 31, New York, NY—School of Visual Arts President David Rhodes has announced the appointment of James (Jimmy) Calhoun as chair of the College’s BFA Computer Art Computer Animation and Visual ...

Study animation, computer arts, and visual effects with the School of Visual Arts (SVA) and become part of an award-winning community. SVA was announced as the best animation school in the world by ...

The School of Visual Arts in New York City is offering a peek at some of its outstanding in-progress thesis projects from the school’s various animation-driven departments. SVA’s innovative and ...

Graduating during a pandemic wasn’t easy, but it was doable. In our series “4 Years Later,” we look back on recently graduated alumni who persevered through the 2019/2020 COVID-19 trials and ...

Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating animated images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while ...

For two decades now, American computer-generated animated films have more or less followed a similar visual template. While their character designs aren’t necessarily hyper-realistic, everything else ...

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 ...

With exaggerated character expressions and cartoonish backgrounds, Pixar’s new movie Luca is an outlier for the studio. The movie tells the tale of two young sea monsters who venture to a human town ...