Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics, ...

When it comes to teaching science, animation seems like a natural fit. What better way to convey how a bicycle pump works or the functions of the human respiratory system? Yet research has turned up ...

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 ...

WALL-E and Buzz Lightyear, step aside. The next generation of Pixar animators might be sitting at the Casper Planetarium this week, hunched faithfully over their laptop computers. For the first time, ...

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 ...

'Cuphead' co-creator Chad Moldenhauer talks about his studio's involvement in the Netflix series, what to expect from its art style and soundtrack ("we're keen to stay as far away from ...

Before Pixar and Lucasfilm, before Jurassic Park and Death Becomes Her, before even Tron and The Last Starfighter, there was AT&T's A Computer Technique for the Production of Animated Movies. Nowadays ...

Steve Jobs famously purchased Pixar from Lucasfilm for $10 million in 1986, selling the company to Disney 20 years later for $7.4 billion. In 1995, Pixar was ready to unveil its first feature film, ...

Sounds accompanying computer-animated content are usually created with recordings. Now, a new system synthesizes synchronized sound at the push of a button. Advances in computer-generated imagery have ...

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 ...