Digital technology may have led to the decline of hand-drawn animation, but it still required legions of creatives and technicians to feed into the process. Now some fear that artificial intelligence ...

Over the last couple of decades, animated features have pushed the boundaries of art, storytelling and the box office. “Flow” won the animated feature Oscar this year, and it didn’t have any dialog, ...

For its fans, One Piece anime is more than a story of pirates and their dreams and is a canvas of love, strength, and visual miracles. Episode after episode, the anime broke new grounds of what ...

TOKYO -- Aina Sugisawa's story of getting her foot in the door of Japan's anime industry is one studios hope to replicate. After studying at an academy run by Tokyo-based TMS Entertainment, she went ...

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Chinese animation Ne Zha 2 has taken the global box office by storm. The highest-earning animated film in history, it has pulled in an incredible 14.59 billion yuan ($2.01 billion). The film set a ...

Minecraft lets players build massive cities, fight against undead mobs to survive, explore caves and so much more. Players have endless ways to explore the blocky world. Talented creators use ...

Arcane is coming to a close, with the final three episodes releasing today, and showrunner Christian Linke tells us the animators are always looking for ways to challenge themselves. Regardless of ...

The Animation Guild, a union made up of more than 5,000 workers across the animation industry, is at the bargaining table right now, negotiating a new three-year contract with Alliance of Motion ...

As the 5,000-strong Animation Guild starts negotiations with studios, outsourcing jobs and AI are the major points of contention. By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media Reporter Jeanette Moreno King’s ...