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Complex Litigation columnist Michael Hoenig revisits the issue of admissibility of computer-generated animations purporting to reconstruct a series of events or an accident.

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Now animation studio Laika, the group who did last year’s eye-popping Coraline, has announced that they’re bailing out of computer-animated features altogether.

Ed Catmull, the Pixar Animation Studios co-founder who helped pioneer the computer-animation industry and led Walt Disney Co.’s animation business to its contemporary renaissance, is retiring.