John Whitney Sr. was a pioneer of computer animation who built an analog computer/film camera hybrid out of an old World War II anti-aircraft gun sight in the early 1960s.

They’re still fun to watch, and show how quickly computer animation evolved in its early days. Here are a few cartoons that PDI made back when it was helping to establish computer animation as ...

Debora Wood, curator of the Block Museum’s exhibition Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print, will introduce this program of short films that explores the development of ...

Here’s my question for the CG historians: what happened to vector animation between 1974 and the early-90s?