Your favorite childhood movie might’ve been a total box-office dud. The animated movies that defined the late ‘90s and early 2000s are beloved by a generation that grew up watching them on VHS, but ...
Disney is closing down animation house Blue Sky, which is responsible for the “Ice Age” franchise, according to a studio spokesperson. The former Fox-based animation house produced 13 features that ...
The former Editor of Ask.com, Kate (she/they) was nominated for an LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award in 2022. Their fiction, reviews, and articles have been published by ...
We’re dazzled by digital animation in Up and Avatar, but William Kentridge delivers as much visual wizardry with a chunk of charcoal. After the popularity of Pixar’s Up and the dynamic digital ...
Though fantasy has always been a big part of animation in the West, it took a bit of a step back in the ‘90s and early ‘00s. The huge success of The Simpsons inspired a similar set of slice-of-life ...
From its inception in 1908 with Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, film animation has always been a medium that esteems the conveyance of visuals, by its very definition. As animation as we know it has ...
Hungary’s Kecskemét Animation Film Festival is one of the most prestigious animation film festivals in Europe, which serves as a celebration of Hungarian national animation and as a showcase of ...
The age of streaming has been explosive, upending the way we watch television and creating a tumultuous landscape. From the boom in programming to the massive layoffs and corporate shake ups all the ...
Five years ago, Reid Mitenbuler penned “Bourbon Empire,” about the business of liquor. It’s only fitting that his new book is on animation history, since both subjects are the stuff that dreams and ...
The Walt Disney Company will close Blue Sky Studios, the animation company inherited in its 2019 acquisition of 20th Century Fox. Founded in 1987, Blue Sky helped grow top-grossing family franchises ...