The Oscars (and awards ceremonies in general) have a big animation problem. For much of Oscars history animated films have been shut out of nominations, with only animated short films having their own ...

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 ...

This week, the pioneering studio Laika returns with “Missing Link,” the stop-motion animated family film starring Hugh Jackman and Zach Galifianakis. With “Missing Link” landing in theaters on Friday, ...

The annals of culture are filled with what has succeeded and, in some form or another, remained — and yet what we’ve left behind is often as important and instructive as what we’ve kept with us. That ...

There are plenty of reference books devoted to animation history—some of which I value highly—but what hasn’t existed is an authoritative textbook that charts the art form’s entire history in a ...

Part 1. Origins of animation -- Chapter 1. Setting the scene for animation. Early innovations in simulating movement ; The printing press and comic strips ; The impact of photography on studies of ...

While there are no shortage of adult-oriented animated films in the global cinemascape, particularly in the Japanese tradition of Anime, to mainstream American audiences it’s still hard to shake the ...

A historian of the form has unearthed works by Bessie Mae Kelley that rank as the earliest-known hand-drawn animated films directed by a woman. Bessie Mae Kelley, an early animator and director.Credit ...