With modern Disney films being created in 3-D animation, it’s hard to remember what the classics looked like until fans re-watch those created from 1937. 2-D animation, also known as hand-drawn ...

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When Walt Disney Co’s animated film “Home on the Range” debuts Friday, it may signal the end of an era for hand-drawn cartoon features as the company that all but created the art form moves to ...

It may be time for Disney to return to 2D animation and there are great reasons for it! There's been a long debate among Disney fans about whether the company should go back to traditional hand-drawn ...

One of Japan’s most commercially successful and highly acclaimed animators, Shinkai Makoto has been called a successor to anime titan Miyazaki Hayao. Known for his mix of photo-realistic visuals and ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

In 1908, Émile Cohl released the short film Fantasmagorie, widely regarded as the world's first animated cartoon. From these humble beginnings, cartoons blew up into detailed theatre shorts by the ...

Computer animation may have taken control of the big-screen cartoon world, yet two of the world’s animation masters remain committed to the hand-drawn form. Japan’s Hayao Miyazaki — whose 2002 fantasy ...

"The great ravine is disputed territory... so we go to war. Idiocy." Mano Animation Studios has revealed a trailer for an animated feature titled The Glassworker, from filmmaker Usman Riaz as his ...

In a field dominated by CGI-animated studio sequels, Netflix has turned a spotlight this awards season on traditional hand-drawn animation with two very different movies. Aimed at adult audiences, ...

When animator Stefan Gruber was eight, they saw a dog run across a wall, not in real life, but in Jules Engel’s hand-drawn short “Accident,” projected during a Pioneer Square art walk. That was the ...