LOS ANGELES - Computer animation has a problem: When it gets too realistic, it starts creeping people out. Most recently, moviegoers complained about the near-realistic depiction of humans in Disney's ...

The human characters in Disney's new 3-D film "Mars Needs Moms" have been criticized as appearing – get this – too lifelike. But isn't realistic animation a good thing? Not exactly, according to the ...

From cel animation to stop motion and 3D, the best animation styles can captivate audiences, but which one is for you?

Behind the scenes of most movie special effects are computers crunching intense mathematical equations. And some of the most complex types of animation equations describe fluid motion: anything from ...

A new paper authored by researchers from Disney Research and several universities describes a new approach to procedural speech animation based on deep learning. The system samples audio recordings of ...

Until this past spring break, there were only two things that scared me in this world: narwhals and mannequins. Narwhals, because theyâÄôre giant, albino beasts with unicorn horns. And I fear ...