This past weekend, you relived the wonder of Jurassic Park and remembered the first time you saw convincing CG effects on screen. But Jurassic Park built on a long legacy of computer innovation ...

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?

“Toy Story,” the first computer animated feature film, began production at Pixar Animation Studios on Jan. 19, 1993.

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.

Jobs once considered essential for hand-drawn movies are no longer needed in computer animation, which is far less labor intensive than the traditional style.

Ken Knowlton, artist and computer animation pioneer, died on June 16 at a hospice facility in Sarasota, Florida. According to his son, Rick Knowlton, the cause of death was unclear. Knowlton was ...

Pixar hadn't just made a film; it redefined what animation could do, both technically and emotionally. Every plastic toy ...

But computer animation had to start somewhere, and in the below video we get a glimpse of the first-ever computer animated character: a (sort of spooky) cat.

Co-founder of Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki takes on a new medium in a new documentary. Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki will showcase the filmmaker’s first foray into digital animation as he ...

Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped pioneer the science and art of computer graphics and made many of the first computer-generated pictures, portraits and movies ...