Facebook as a maker of animation tools? It happened today. The company just announced a major upgrade to its virtual reality drawing tool, Quill, introducing animation capabilities into the software.

Learn the basics of stop-motion animation through Animation-ish’s clever three-level process. Animation-ish ($60, free demo) is a very simple, intuitive, sensibly progressive tool to learn stop-frame ...

Check out this 2-minute masterpiece of the Star Wars Trilogy created using stop frame animation and paper. Watch the 2 min video after the jump. Enjoy. Created by Eric Power Up, this 2-minute paper ...

Explore the art of stop frame animation! 🎬 See how still frames are brought to life with creative techniques, storytelling, and visual effects. Perfect for animators, artists, and enthusiasts of ...

Joe Letteri, Oscar-winning co-creator of Gollum on screen, looks at the evolution of computer animation as the next instalment of The Hobbit trilogy reaches cinemas. Computer animation is a natural ...

Animation has come a long way since the days of Walt Disney. Not very long ago, creating high-quality animation would have required massive studio spaces, large teams, and loads of money. And while ...

Daryl Lang is the Managing Editor for the Shutterstock Blog. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been adapted with permission. Recently, I started to create an animated ...

“Hina is Beautiful,” a new film from Japan’s Iwaisawa Kenji, director of the cult “On-Gaku: Our Sound”), headlines an Annecy Animation Showcase at this year’s Cannes’ Marché du Film. The Showcase in ...