Two of Pixar Animation Studios’ earliest employees, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, have won the computer industry’s prestigious Turing Prize for their contributions to 3D graphics and CGI filmmaking.

We take seamless computer animation for granted these days. It’s hard not to when it’s growing increasingly difficult to decipher between reality and various simulated worlds. But computer animation ...

Ken Knowlton, artist and computer animation pioneer, died on June 16 at a hospice facility in Sarasota, Florida. According to his son, Rick Knowlton, the cause of death was unclear. Knowlton was an ...

It’s been 20 years since the release of The Lion King, a pop-culture reference point that makes us all feel much older. It’s also been that long since Rob Minkoff directed an animated film prior to Mr ...

Back in the ‘90s, computer animation looked gloriously shitty. Charming and creepy in turn, the robotic homunculi that contemporary animators could summon didn’t seem ready for prime time, but that ...

Or, as we’ve come to think of it, pretty much exclusively, “the CGI puppet Robins movie.” Directed by Arthur Mintz, the ...

A very rare late 1980s behind-the-scenes video has resurfaced on Matt Jones’ Shot, Drawn & Cut Youtube channel which provides a detailed look at the production of the Roger Rabbit short Roller Coaster ...

Co-founder of Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki takes on a new medium in a new documentary. Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki will showcase the filmmaker’s first foray into digital animation as he creates a ...