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 ...

From poetic vignettes to cinematic journeys, the festival spotlights global creators shaping the next era of animation and ...

Mastering painting and drawing is no longer enough to succeed in the animation industry — coding and scripting are essential requirements for a position at a top animation firm. "Right now almost all ...

July 31, New York, NY—School of Visual Arts President David Rhodes has announced the appointment of James (Jimmy) Calhoun as chair of the College’s BFA Computer Art Computer Animation and Visual ...

Welcome to Season 2 of Animation Club's On A Tangent podcast! Kicking off the season is an interview with Jun Zee Myers, 3D animator and SVA 2004 alum. During this episode, Zee shares her long career ...

At last night's Student Academy Award ceremony in Beverly Hills, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences honored Ringling College of Art and Design computer animation students Kal Athannassov, ...

A badge of honor, to many people, would be an award or merit of some type. But not to cartoonist Ed Seeman. Musician Frank Zappa called Seeman “a freak,” when referring to him during a cough drop ...

The School of Visual Arts in New York City is offering a peek at some of its outstanding in-progress thesis projects from the school’s various animation-driven departments. SVA’s innovative and ...

With the release of Disney and Pixar's Academy Award-nominated family feature "Monsters, Inc.," toddlers to codgers were wowed by the detail animators achieved with the 2.3 million simulated hair ...

When I heard the news, my mind didn’t turn to any of the big-budget features produced by PDI/Dreamworks, starting with Antz in 1998. Instead, I thought about an era well before there was a DreamWorks.

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, ...

Robert Abel, the computer animation and graphics guru who used multimedia to create award-winning commercials, films and classroom educational materials, has died. He was 64. Abel, credited with ...