Last week, the animation company PIXAR won an Academy Award for its film “Inside Out,” it’s eighth Oscar for best animated film. Still, the guy involved with all those winning films has a hard time ...

While deciding how to animate “Elemental” (Pixar), director Peter Sohn was having a crisis. How do you animate fire? Or water? He could take cues from Hayao Miyazaki’s Calcifer in “Howl’s Moving ...

Until this past spring break, there were only two things that scared me in this world: narwhals and mannequins. Narwhals, because theyâÄôre giant, albino beasts with unicorn horns. And I fear ...

These 10 animated shows captivate from the first episode and maintain their brilliance throughout, with iconic characters and ...

The human characters in Disney's new 3-D film "Mars Needs Moms" have been criticized as appearing – get this – too lifelike. But isn't realistic animation a good thing? Not exactly, according to the ...

LOS ANGELES - Computer animation has a problem: When it gets too realistic, it starts creeping people out. Most recently, moviegoers complained about the near-realistic depiction of humans in Disney's ...

A funny thing happened on the way to the multiplex: Animation and live action started imitating each other, to the detriment of the former. Major live-action features--from “The Matrix” to “Cats & ...

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Behind the scenes of most movie special effects are computers crunching intense mathematical equations. And some of the most complex types of animation equations describe fluid motion: anything from ...

There are many ongoing and eternal comic book debates. Marvel vs. DC. Married or single Spider-Man. Superman with trunks, or without. But one thing that almost no one ever argues with is this—Batman ...