While deciding how to animate “Elemental” (Pixar), director Peter Sohn was having a crisis. How do you animate fire? Or water? He could take cues from Hayao Miyazaki’s Calcifer in “Howl’s Moving ...
It's a warm fall afternoon at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, and a gentle breeze blows through the meticulously ...
Produced by Natalie Portman, with the voices of Portman, Andy Samberg, Will Ferrell, and Mark Ruffalo, Neon's 'Arco' is a ...
Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks have teamed up with the educational platform Yellowbrick to present “This Is Animation,” an all-new, free-to-access online course designed to ...
At Fredrikstad Animation Festival, indie filmmaker Nikita Diakur shared how chaos, humor, and connection drive his ...
Among Japanese feature animation directors, Naoko Yamada is a unique figure in many ways. Not only has she managed to build a career as a woman director in a male-led environment, she has also worked ...
A.I. has yet to upend Hollywood. But it is starting to make big inroads in animation. The founders of Toonstar, a small animation studio in downtown Los Angeles, have incorporated A.I. at various ...
The world of feature-length animation continues to thrive, with films like Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Predator: Killer of Killers, and the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse movies pushing the ...
Toei Animation, the studio behind One Piece, has come under scrutiny after announcing plans to integrate AI into its production processes. This move has led to backlash from fans who fear that AI ...
“Inside Out 2” is a bigger box office hit than even Pixar’s staunchest believers had dared to expect, turning down the anxiety dial for fans worried about the Walt Disney Co.-owned computer animation ...
Kanishma Ray is a writer at GameRant, who's known to play a mean violin (decently, that is). She's a Computer Science student by day and a wordsmith by night, with a knack for crafting engaging and ...