The role: Computer animators are the artists and designers behind the digital effects in film productions, both within fully computer-animated entertainment as well as productions that blend ...

Pixar's current computer-animated feature, "Cars 2," zoomed into theaters June 24 and -- just like the 11 Pixar releases that preceded it -- opened as the week's No. 1 movie.

The struggle between a stick figure and its creator, a computer animator. In this fourth installment, the animator is finally shown in real life interacting with his computer monitor. The stick figure ...

Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he’s got a vision for where the pixel will take us next.

Computer-generated images based on simple algorithms - it's not the stuff typically shown in art galleries. But for animator Andy Lomas, computers are perfect canvases and algorithms the perfect tools ...

GeekDad interviews David Gibson, a character animator on the upcoming Sony release Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs about what it takes to be an animator.