Traditionally based in the Los Angeles area, the industry is becoming more widely dispersed. Telecommuting during the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the trend. "Animation has boomed because of ...

Salla Lehmus is a Finnish 2D animator whose work has taken her from animating Libresse/Bodyform's groundbreaking Womb Stories campaign to creating a series of IDs for Adult Swim and designing and ...

In our ongoing series of pieces published in partnership with animation software developer Reallusion, Studio Ghibletz’s Nathan Smith stopped by to explain how his studio is enchanting its 2d ...

Something is enduring about pixel art that keeps drawing us back. A handful of coloured squares shouldn’t have much power, yet somehow they carry stories, emotions, whole worlds. Retro visuals were ...

With “Wish,” Disney Animation celebrates its 100th anniversary by merging the 2D legacy of watercolor background paintings (dating back to “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”) with cutting-edge CG. The ...

Animation and gaming, kindred worlds from the start, have converged in various ways over the decades. The industries have shared writers, designers, characters, franchises. Technology, too: recently, ...

Along with such names as John Cena, Post Malone and Ayo Edebiri, you will find art and design alumna Katie Lucas ’20 in the credits for the 2023 animated movie “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant ...

William Fischer is an author at Collider. Born and raised in Nebraska, he latched onto moviemaking at a young age and has been chasing it ever since. William holds a BFA in film from the University of ...

Walt Disney Animation might have gotten its start in the world of 2D animation, but for more than a decade now, it's transitioned almost exclusively to 3D animation. It’s a move that made sense at the ...