The gig: Animator Hao Li, 34, is an assistant professor of computer science at USC, running a small, newly renovated lab with five graduate students at the university's school of engineering.

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 ...

Features Computer animation and its constant leaps forward Animation never ceases to evolve, seemingly with every new release. But where did it begin, and will it have unintended effects?

The animation arm is 200 employees strong and has a production pipeline that can churn out animated news clips in real time, just like it did of the Woods incident.

Xencelabs pen tablets give Full Sail computer animation and gaming students a valuable new tool used in professional environments.

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.

"Computer animator is a broad term to describe anyone that's working in the animation industry doing 3-D animation, and that includes several different roles," said Noel Hooper, a professor and ...