The release of Moana 2 in December last year marked the 63rd film from Walt Disney, the latest in a remarkable span of nine decades dating back to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) in which the ...

A pioneering force in hand-drawn effects and an accomplished writer and educator, Gilland leaves a lasting impact on artists across the industry.

After years of dormancy, the animation art market has been sizzling for the last couple years. In June, it’ll be more heated than ever when three houses will hold major animation art auctions within ...

David Weidman, the UPA animation artist whose mid-century style silkscreened prints found a new appreciation in recent years, died Wednesday. He was 93 and had lived in the Highland Park neighborhood ...

An animator can solve his character’s problems with the move of a pen. For Greg Peters, an animator who has worked on such television series as “Animaniacs,” “Pinky and the Brain” and “Dilbert,” a pen ...

From the proton torpedoes that obliterated the Death Star in Star Wars IV, to the ingenious computer virus that crippled the extraterrestrial mothership in Independence Day, for years Hollywood has ...

Will Vinton is not only the mastermind behind the California Raisins music video for "Heard It Through the Grapevine." In 1975, Vinton won an Oscar for best animated short film "Closed Mondays," which ...

Animation has been captivating audiences for more than a hundred years. From classic forms like hand drawn and stop-motion, to cutting-edge techniques like motion graphics and CGI, animation has a ...

Bill Littlejohn, an animator whose work ranged from MGM’s “Tom and Jerry” shorts and the independent films of John and Faith Hubley to the popular “Peanuts” specials, died Friday night of natural ...