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 ...

The Blender Foundation released yesterday the first version of its highly-anticipated Blender 2.80 beta. The 2.80 beta is packed with new features, including a complete revamp of the user interface, a ...

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When Genndy Tartakovsky first pitched Fixed, his new animated comedy feature on Netflix, the adult animation landscape looked very different. It was 2008, and for anyone looking for animation catered ...

The best animation styles offer powerfully effective ways to tell stories that captivate audiences, whether it's for non-fiction features and shorts, documentaries or corporate explainers. Different ...

For die-hard action fans, few franchises out there satisfy like SNK's Metal Slug brand. The series is known for endless streams of bullets, amazing 2D animation, a quirky sense of humor, and all out ...

Traditionally, 2D animation involved paper and transparent animation cells being photographed frame by frame by a film camera. Like all forms of animation this process is time intensive but it is ...

While Studio MDHR has yet to reveal its plans for the future following the release of Cuphead, the developer does intend to use hand-drawn 2D animation for whatever comes next. On the latest episode ...

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 ...