Deep down in the bowels of the museum archives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), behind gray stone walls and row after row of oak shelves and metal file cabinets, in a box sits an ...

This course takes a comprehensive look at the artists and studios that shaped the history of the dynamic art form of Animation, from its beginning in the silent film era and American entertainment ...

Introduction -- Film and television at the dawn of the digital revolution -- Analog dreams : bohemians, beatniks, and the Whitneys -- Spook work : the government and the military -- Academia -- Xerox ...

Back before the days of computers, animation was drawn by hand. We typically think of cartoons and animated feature films, but there were other genres as well. For example, animation was also used in ...

Unexpected double lives, mysterious alternate realms, impending environmental doom, tech addiction, the complexities of parent-child relationships, gender fluidity, racial justice—these are just a few ...

“Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age,” an exhibition gathering 100 works that illustrate how artistic practices shifted with the emergence of computer technology beginning in the 1950s, opens at the ...

Disney’s new Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers movie sees various animated characters of different styles and eras coexisting in a live-action Los Angeles. The premise of the film is that Dale is now 3d ...

His work at Bell Labs in the 1960s laid the groundwork for today’s computer-generated imagery in film and on TV. By Cade Metz Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped ...

The annual CG confab runs Aug. 8-11 in Vancouver. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor A group of student from French animation school Pole 3D used CG to tell a powerful story about the Paris Massacre of ...