We take seamless computer animation for granted these days. It’s hard not to when it’s growing increasingly difficult to decipher between reality and various simulated worlds. But computer animation ...

When it comes to teaching science, animation seems like a natural fit. What better way to convey how a bicycle pump works or the functions of the human respiratory system? Yet research has turned up ...

Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics, ...

Animated movies are just as popular as ever, and thanks to Pixar’s vision the computer-animated movie has been the favored format for over a decade. That’s not to say it’s the best format. Give me ...

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It may have been 20 years ago, but I can still vividly remember seeing Toy Story in my local movie theater. From the rigid recreated marching of the Army Men at the start of the film, to the ...

For many years, the use and growth of technology has facilitated animation’s development. From the early ages of the phenakistoscope disk (spindle viewer) or flipbook, to the invention of the zoetrope ...

Put a goldfish on your desktop with this beautifully animated wallpaper. In our household we have a hard time keeping goldfish alive–infact, we just buried one last week. Instead of heading back to ...

With Shrek the Third, the latest film in DreamWorks Animation's CG ogre comedy franchise, hitting theaters everywhere this weekend, we thought we'd take a look at the history of computer-animated ...