The creation of a single minute of footage for an animated TV show or movie can take weeks or even months of collaborative work by artists, directors, producers and technicians. Animation requires ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that, in 2008, artists worked in 221,900 jobs; 79,000 of those jobs were in multimedia and animation. Animators create images for ...

Jonathan Cooper is no stranger to speaking out on the process of creating character animations in video games. Just a few years ago, Polygon interviewed the former animation director for Assassin’s ...

As global animation evolves, a new generation of Chinese female creators is bringing powerful, culturally rich perspectives to the international stage. Directors like Domee Shi (Pixar’s Bao, Turning ...

It’s been 30 years since Buzz Lightyear first declared, “To infinity, and beyond!” — prompting the space man’s action figures to fly off Toys ‘R Us shelves as one of the most-wished (and most sold-out ...

October 28th (today) marks the occasion of World Animation Day. Those who aspire to hone their skills in this craft often have the same quintessential queries — the fastest way to learn animation; the ...