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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This past weekend, you relived the wonder of Jurassic Park and remembered the first time you saw convincing CG effects on screen. But Jurassic Park built on a long legacy of computer innovation, more ...

Robots of the entertainment industry are given life by character animation, where the goal is to emotionally connect with the audience to tell a story. In comparison, real-world robot movement design ...

Animated movies are just as popular as ever, and thanks to Pixar’s vision the computer-animated movie has been the favored format for over a decade. That’s not to say it’s the best format. Give me ...

Wireframe boxes and freehand squiggles might not be as exciting as dinosaurs and terminators, but this 1971 film from the National Research Council of Canada is an important history lesson for anyone ...

I’ve come across people who believe that Max Headroom, the Channel 4 character from the Eighties (pictured at top), was a genuine piece of computer animation. But although he was conceived by the ...

Unexpected double lives, mysterious alternate realms, impending environmental doom, tech addiction, the complexities of parent-child relationships, gender fluidity, racial justice—these are just a few ...

Animation in film and video games is hard to make realistic: each action typically requires creating a separate controller, while deep reinforcement learning has yet to generate realistic human or ...