The latest rush into animation went into high gear in May when George Lucas announced the creation of Lucasfilm Animation to produce computer-animated features. Other studios are jumping in as ...

On this day in tech history, “Toy Story” was released in theaters, becoming the first entirely computer-animated feature-length film. It was the first film produced by Pixar with Steve Jobs serving as ...

Nearly all animated movies made today use computer graphics. The characters’ shapes are stored on the computer as geometric surfaces and their movements are controlled by geometric curves. By ...

In a darkened classroom 30 students peer intently at glowing computer screens filled with scenes of attack helicopters fire-spewing monsters and lovable cartoon characters. The students mostly in t… ...

Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics ...

Wayne Carlson at Ohio State University compiled the history of computer graphics and animation from its humble beginnings in 1951. There's plenty to be learned here, so pull up a chair and a pot ...