While deciding how to animate “Elemental” (Pixar), director Peter Sohn was having a crisis. How do you animate fire? Or water? He could take cues from Hayao Miyazaki’s Calcifer in “Howl’s Moving ...

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Researchers at Electronic Arts are coming up with ways to make those hyper-realistic games even more squint-and-you-miss-it real looking. Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, ...

A funny thing happened on the way to the multiplex: Animation and live action started imitating each other, to the detriment of the former. Major live-action features--from “The Matrix” to “Cats & ...

Animated shows are hard to make, but “Undone” takes matters to a whole new level. The Amazon series uses a technique called rotoscope, which projects and enlarges individual frames of filmed live ...

Replay: This first appeared in 2014, so you'd expect it to be dated given the incredibly fast pace of technology. But it's still an incredibly realistic animation even by today's standards. It's not ...

Sounds accompanying computer-animated content are usually created with recordings. Now, a new system synthesizes synchronized sound at the push of a button. Advances in computer-generated imagery have ...

Every time Disney has produced “The Lion King,” it’s been a stylized rendition, and the question becomes whether the particular style — hand-drawn animation in the 1994 film, puppet performance in the ...