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If you’re still wondering why DreamWorks Animation spent $33 million last spring to buy the YouTube channel AwesomenessTV, an article about Netflix in the latest issue of the “New Yorker” offers an explanation that I found to be succinct and worth sharing.
Less than six years after opening, Sony Pictures Imageworks India will shut down.
SVA’s MFA Computer Arts program made a strong impact at SIGGRAPH 2025, with student volunteers, alumni, and faculty contributing throughout the conference.
Japanese illustrator Takao Nakagawa produces character-centric artwork that is published in magazines and books and painted as murals.
Hal Sutherland, the co-founder of the low-budget American TV animation studio Filmation, has died at age 85.
Among the abundant visual delights of last year’s “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2” was the expertly executed end title sequence, which has now been posted online.
Glenn August is an artist from Denmark who studied at the Animation Workshop and is currently working on earning a production design MA at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design in Copenhagen.
The notes were taken and everything was going fine. Then my laptop turned off and all lost. So now I’m sitting here with pieces of this week’s “Steven Universe” in my head hours after the fact.
Last month a Japanese TV crew traveled to Pixar where director Isao Takahata was treating the studio’s artists to a screening of his new Studio Ghibli film “The Story of Princess Kaguya.”
Possibly the only thing more charming than the Oscar-nominated Franco-Belgian animated feature “Ernest and Celestine” is the film’s new making-of Tumblr by one of its directors,Benjamin Renner.
A castaway finds himself washed ashore a beach at the foot of a towering city. His curiosity draws him into the urban expanse he finds before him. Whilst in the city he tries to get in touch with the society.
Israeli artist Shimrit Elkanati creates narrative illustrations (and some animation) in scratchy pencils and pixels, depicting both family life and office culture, as well as imaginative scenes with children and animals.
Surpassing even the most generous box office predictions, Disney’s “Frozen” continues to shatter records.
This new trailer for the Angeline Jolie-starring “Maleficent” debuted last night during the Grammy Awards broadast.
An exploration of design, composition and music using a minimal amount of cycling frames to produce a variety of motions.
Anne Laval studied at École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg. She illustrates picture books and other work using colored pencils, watercolor washes and printmaking techniques.
Cartoon Network has pulled a controversial “Powerpuff Girls” comic book variant cover that was intended to ship next month from IDW PUblishing.
West German terrorist Norbert Kröcher was arrested on March 31, 1977. He was leading a group planning to kidnap politician Anna-Greta Leijon. A number of suspects were arrested in the days following. One of them was Kröcher’s ex-girlfriend, “A”. This is her story.
After all of the recent Walt Disney mudslinging, it’s nice to see a positive mention of the man, even if that positivity happens to be in the form of a TV commercial trying to sell you a luxury automobile.
Guillaume Fesquet is a French artist who works in visual development on animation productions.
The personal styles of individual animation artists will be front and center in a new book series being prepped by Disney Publishing.