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?

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.

For decades, two-dimensional animation was the only game in town. Computer-generated graphics (CGI) were in their experimental phase throughout the 1980s but exploded in the following decade. This ...

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

Old-Style Cartoons Fade to Black Amid New Computer Animation By Bruce Orwall and John Lippman Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal July 7, 2003 1:10 am ET Share ...

Leave it to Netflix to shake things up with its first animated feature: "Klaus," a Santa origin story made the old-fashioned way: in 2D.