Leave it to the medium of animation to infuse new life into an intellectual property that has diluted itself with each sequel spawned for the big screen. “Transformers One,” which serves as a prequel ...

If all you know or remember of the eponymous biblical character’s story is that he defeated a hulking giant with a humble slingshot, then “David” might have some surprises in store for you - chief ...

Short subjects willing to tackle tough subjects made the final cut with the Academy this year. That means audiences buying tickets to the “2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation” program should ...

Spawned from the New York Times No. 1 bestseller by Peter Brown that managed to speak to multiple generations, not just kids, DreamWorks Animation‘s The Wild Robot proves to be a real gem in the genre ...

Zack Snyder, best known for such hyper-violent fare as “300” and “The Watchmenm,” may be the last person you’d expect to helm an adaptation of a popular series of kid’s books (the Guardians of ...

While Pixar tends to get all the love, flowers, and swooning for their impact on the cg animated feature, Sam Summers suggests that “on a narrative and tonal level” the influence of Dreamworks ...

Five years ago, Reid Mitenbuler penned “Bourbon Empire,” about the business of liquor. It’s only fitting that his new book is on animation history, since both subjects are the stuff that dreams and ...

The impressive animated memoir “My Favorite War” revisits writer-director Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen’s childhood in Soviet Latvia in the 1970s and ’80s. The result of a nine-year labor of love from a ...

Pratt Institute is ranked one of the country’s top colleges for animation in the 2021 Animation School Rankings recently published by Animation Career Review, a comprehensive source of information on ...

This development strategy has led to the creation of director Mark Dindel’s The Garfield Movie – a film so bland it can be summed up as “101 minutes of animation.” There are familiar character designs ...