This past weekend, you relived the wonder of Jurassic Park and remembered the first time you saw convincing CG effects on screen. But Jurassic Park built on a long legacy of computer innovation, more ...

Today, many believe that Mainframe was the only company to debut a computer-animated TV show in 1994. But that's incorrect. The Canadian studio had a European peer called Fantôme ("ghost" in French), ...

While Odyssey focused primarily on 35mm back-lit motion graphics and special effects for the first 5 years of its existence, its award-winning release of the world's first home entertainment video of ...

Joe Letteri, Oscar-winning co-creator of Gollum on screen, looks at the evolution of computer animation as the next instalment of The Hobbit trilogy reaches cinemas. Computer animation is a natural ...

Ken Knowlton, artist and computer animation pioneer, died on June 16 at a hospice facility in Sarasota, Florida. According to his son, Rick Knowlton, the cause of death was unclear. Knowlton was an ...

Computer gaming and animation have become deeply interwoven, each driving advances in the other to create immersive interactive experiences. Modern game engines integrate animation tools—from keyframe ...

With 25 years of hindsight, “Jurassic Park” marks a pivotal point in the history of visual effects in film. It came 11 years after 1982’s “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” debuted computer-generated ...

Traditionally, one of the weak points in Blender has been simulations, with even professional users of the free and open source computer graphics suite off-loading such tasks to programs like Houdini.

The 3-D animated movies that followed in the late 1990s – like Toy Story series and Antz – were stylized, cartoonish films limited even by the era's best computing power, lighting models, and ...