A look at how Pixar's 1999 sequel advanced filmmaking technology and changed the animation industry forever.

Stormie is a marketing specialist whose passion for anime has led her to work on marketing and sales teams for multiple major anime brands. In her free time, she's preparing to take the N3 JLPT ...

Part 1. Origins of animation -- Chapter 1. Setting the scene for animation. Early innovations in simulating movement ; The printing press and comic strips ; The impact of photography on studies of ...

Don Bluth first found his “laughing place” — a term he uses to refer to an intangible mental refuge from the drudgery of existence — in the films of his lifelong hero, Walt Disney. Today an animation ...

Introduction -- Film and television at the dawn of the digital revolution -- Analog dreams : bohemians, beatniks, and the Whitneys -- Spook work : the government and the military -- Academia -- Xerox ...

A historian of the form has unearthed works by Bessie Mae Kelley that rank as the earliest-known hand-drawn animated films directed by a woman. Bessie Mae Kelley, an early animator and director.Credit ...

The latest exhibit at Orange County Regional History Center may get creative juices flowing and prompt waves of nostalgia. “Animationland” provides hands-on artistic activities, and its companion ...

Ten years ago today, the stop-motion animation studio Laika released ParaNorman. It’s a film perhaps best remembered for the way it boldly threaded zombie movie tropes into animated family fare, ...