Although the civil lawsuit was eventually settled before trial, the dueling reenactments, which employ computer-animation techniques pioneered by Hollywood movie studios, demonstrate just how ...

There are various 2D animation techniques. Traditionally, artists would draw characters and backgrounds by hand, scan them into a computer and then layer them to create the moving image.

After a series of short films made throughout the 1980s with early computer animation techniques, Pixar made a name for itself in the mid-1990s, with Toy Story being the first fully computer ...

Training and education prepare an artist to use animation techniques to bring drawings to life. Animators can work for a company or as a freelance artist providing images for businesses.

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.

The performance capture-based film blends live action and computer animation techniques, meaning that no one is quite certain whether it will qualify in the competition for best animated film or ...

In addition to traditional computer animation techniques, these animators employ storytelling skills in their game designs, as well as movie production skills such as lighting, texture, and movement.

There's also a making-of documentary showing Pixar's computer-animation techniques, plus the company's early short film "Knick Knack" and a short documentary with undersea explorer Jean-Michel ...