When Walt Disney Co’s animated film “Home on the Range” debuts Friday, it may signal the end of an era for hand-drawn cartoon features as the company that all but created the art form moves to ...

In the 20 years since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduced the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, a hand-drawn movie has claimed the award only once—Japanese director Hayao ...

Earlier today I caught a very entertaining panel at WonderCon in San Francisco moderated by Walt Disney Animation Studios visual effects supervisor Marlon West, who has spent the last few years ...

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hand-drawn animation, out of fashion in the computer age, experienced a rescue worthy of a fairy tale on Thursday, when Walt Disney animators announced they would bring back ...

It may be time for Disney to return to 2D animation and there are great reasons for it! There's been a long debate among Disney fans about whether the company should go back to traditional hand-drawn ...

When animator Stefan Gruber was eight, they saw a dog run across a wall, not in real life, but in Jules Engel’s hand-drawn short “Accident,” projected during a Pioneer Square art walk. That was the ...

Google Tilt Brush has normalized drawing in 3D space, so the next obvious step is animating drawings in virtual reality. While multiple people are working on tools to enable classical animation on vr ...

Directed by Isamu Imakake, it details the physical and spiritual journey of two young cousins who meet one summer.