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Amazon’s Animated Pilots Are A Big Disappointment

Last Friday, Amazon released 14 pilots on their online streaming service in the latest bid by an Internet company to unseat network TV …

Don’t believe everything you read—or see—online. One of the newer Google search features is to include a biography box for …

Controlling creative people appears to be a popular topic in the mainstream media nowadays. Following on the heels of Harvard Business …

The GIF is here to stay. So how can the animation community stake its claim in this rapidly evolving narrative medium?

Last week, comment sections across the creative community were set ablaze by the Harvard Business Review’s article “Seven Rules for …

Are you an aspiring screenwriter who dreams of creating magical and intimate moments that simply teem in human behavior? If you answered …

“Animation is a young man’s game,” Chuck Jones once said. There’s no question that animation is a labor-intensive art that requires mass …

If you’re an animation studio executive and you’ve just laid off a a crew of artists, what’s the first thing you should do? Going on …

We can’t seem to get over our obsession with the caveman, who has appeared on screen since at least 1912. In fact, anthropologist Judith …

In the late-1930s, Walt Disney enlisted German architect and industrial designer Kem Weber to design a state-of-the-art animation studio …

I didn’t really know about animation smears until college. It was a time when my passion for animation had just kicked into high gear, …

After drawing a crowd of 15,000 attendees to Cowboys Stadium for a live simulcast of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, the Dallas Opera aims …

Every step of animation production used to require physical exertion or interaction with a physical object. Not so anymore.

The answer may surprise you.

A commentary worth reading by Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of the Visual Effects Society: “We are at a tipping point in our industry – no …

The Oscar organizers cut off his speech when he tried to talk about the VFX industry. What did Bill Westenhofer want to say?

As an animation supporter, it’s moments like this that makes you shake your head and wonder why you even try. In a single magazine …

Within the last 6 months, two of the biggest U.S. visual effects houses—Digital Domain and Rhythm & Hues—have declared bankruptcy. …

Dice Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo show that there’s more than one way to raise money for an animated short.

Character designer Stephen Silver is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore.