Having spent several weeks staring at the subway posters for “Gnomeo and Juliet,” a computer-animated retelling of Shakespeare’s classic in which the star-crossed lovers are lawn ornaments, I can ...

Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch includes practically all the characters from the 2002 animated movie, providing an idea of how the characters look in live-action vs. animation. The 2025 live-action ...

So you’ve built your Gothic castle-it’s time for your hero to dash into play and defend the battlements. Your gaming engine supports skeletons, an animation system called Inverse Kinematics (IK), and ...

Getting character design right is as complex as composing a melody, says Disney’s vet animator Glen Keane, who supervised the animation of “Tangled” and designed Rapunzel. “Working with 3D computer ...

Gematsu recently sat down with Toshiyuki Kubooka, the character designer and animation director behind the LUNAR series, to discuss the remastered editions of LUNAR: Silver Star Story and LUNAR: ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore personal branding and storytelling in the digital age. Lindsey Olivares is an LA based artist working in animation.

2014 was a great year to be an animation fan. Not only was there an unprecedented number of animated feature films released, there an astoundingly broad array of styles and techniques on display. It ...

Character animation and motion synthesis have evolved into a multidisciplinary field at the nexus of computer graphics, biomechanics, and artificial intelligence. The field aims to generate ...

ComicBook has the exclusive preview of excerpts from X-Men ’97: The Art and Making of the Animated Series. Those excerpts feature character designs for Magneto, Beast, and Jubilee. With Professor ...

“KPop Demon Hunters,” Netflix’s animated phenomenon, swept the 2026 Annie Awards, winning Best Feature at ASIFA-Hollywood’s annual awards ceremony recognizing the greatest animated achievements of the ...