The history of animation goes back even farther than Mickey Mouse and steamboats, but they’ve entered a completely new era of interactivity thanks to HTML5, jQuery, and Javascript. In the beginning, ...

Iwao Takamoto, animation designer for Walt Disney Co., Hanna-Barbera Studios and Warner Bros. who crafted the look of such Hanna-Barbera characters as Scooby-Doo, died Monday of a heart attack. He was ...

Focused Degree Options: Choose one of three tracks: 2D, 3D, or stop motion animation. Get Ahead in the Summer: Enjoy a selection of the School of Film and Animation’s courses during the summer term.

We’re not animating dancing brooms in feature films here. We’re designing interfaces for apps and websites. Do these principles really have anything at all to do with Interface animation? The answer ...

Now that computers can render intricately detailed outfits, the little-known behind-the-scenes job has become crucial in animated movies like “Frozen 2.” By Robert Ito This article is part of our ...

The Shrek 5 animation change has sparked intense discussion among fans ever since the teaser dropped. While audiences eagerly anticipate the return of Shrek and his companions, many have noticed a ...

From early sketches to final renders, character design is where storytelling meets artistry. Animators use shape clarity, purposeful color, and anatomical awareness to create characters that feel ...

Although not anyone can be a designer, everyone who wants to can learn the elements of visual design: contrast, transparency, hierarchy, randomness, and so on. In fact, it doesn’t even take all that ...

Last September, Google launched Web Designer, a free tool for Mac, Windows and Linux that makes it easy for anybody to build interactive HTML5 sites and ads. Since its launch, Web Designer got a ...