The tagline for Disney’s upcoming “Enchanted” could well be the motto for the latest push in animation: “The real world and the animated world collide.” Not simply colliding in the slapstick tradition ...
Animator Genndy Tartakovsky answers the internet's burning questions about animation and cartooning. Why are there so many cartoon characters that don't wear pants? Why are Genny's Clone Wars episodes ...
British animation legend Bob Godfrey (1921-2013) answers the question “What Is Animation?” in this short film directed by Martin Pickles. Pickles was inspired to become a full-time animator and to ...
Former Disney supervising animator Aaron Blaise, who also directed the studio’s feature Brother Bear, took to his Youtube channel recently to address the recent rise of AI-generated images and the use ...
For a period, Animated Programs that ran more than one hour competed in a separate category. After 2009, though, more than one hour submissions were merged with the half-hour submissions into one ...
No more pencils, no more books, no more Oscar voters’ dirty looks! At least when it comes to accepting new forms of cinema. Too often, the industry hears, “It’s good, but not for the Oscars,” or “That ...
Animated films and television shows can seem like magic, in how they manage to bring life -- or, more specifically, motion-- to 2-D art. How exactly does that work, though? We reached out to Stephen ...
With "The Sea Beast," Netflix throws its harpoon at a 2023 Oscar nomination for animated feature. While the film's dialogue and characters aren't exactly unique, its visuals are remarkable and it's ...
What actor doesn’t dream of voicing a role in an animated feature film or TV show? We all have an animal voice or quirky character inside us just itching to come out. So how do you make that dream a ...