Oscar-winning short animation Paperman showed how traditional and new forms of animation could mix Disney is not releasing a hand-drawn feature film in the next two years, its chief executive recently ...

Round-table interviews notoriously can go one of a few ways. If you’re lucky, and we’ve had more positive experiences than not, then the flow of conversation is aided by the contribution of lots of ...

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 ...

Joe Letteri, Oscar-winning co-creator of Gollum on screen, looks at the evolution of computer animation as the next instalment of The Hobbit trilogy reaches cinemas. Computer animation is a natural ...

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.

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.

Trotsky Marudu thinks ahead. More than 25 years ago, he explored his artistic potential on the computer. “I did traditional animation work before 1987,” says Marudu. “As I was interested in animation ...

Ed Catmull, the Pixar Animation Studios co-founder who helped pioneer the computer-animation industry and led Walt Disney Co.’s animation business to its contemporary renaissance, is retiring. Catmull ...

Disney is not releasing a hand-drawn feature film in the next two years, its chief executive recently revealed, but it could be that news of animation's death has been greatly exaggerated. "To my ...