To bring animated movies to life, production studios must assemble hundreds of animators and equip them with state-of-the-art tools—requiring months of set-up and huge capital investment. SummuS ...

Since the beginning of time, the evolution of technology has changed our habits, routines and environment continually, and it is no different in the world of animation, where technology has played a ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

Little kids can now do what only ten years ago required well-oiled production professionals. It's the democratization of production and its inertia is reshaping what is valued (and what is not) in the ...

Only three days after the launch of the Vanguards video game — the BYU Center for Animation students’ senior project — 1,500 people had already downloaded and played it. “We guessed that anywhere from ...

Animation used to be incredibly labor intensive. Sketch out a drawing, use ink or paint to shape it exactly the way you want it, then start the whole process over again for the next cel. Do that a ...