Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Despite advances in ...

At 20 years of age, Charlie Collier of Zapamation may be a young filmmaker, but he’s already got almost eight years of stop-motion experience behind him. A self-taught animator, he says he was able to ...

Movement brings shapes to life, creating connections for an audience. Animation can also bring data to life, during both the visual exploration and storytelling phases. By animating data ...

While art skills are obviously important to a career in animation, they’re only one thing that influences an artist’s success. As films, TV series and games are large scale operations, often employing ...

Animating Principle's Workshop is where compassion and critical thinking meet. From the neurodivergent, whimsical, creative minds of Animating Principle's husband and wife duo, Britney and Sean, the ...

Researchers developed new algorithms for animating coiled hair, enabling more realistic and diverse depictions of Afro-textured hair that could greatly advance the animation of Black characters in ...

Stop motion animator extraordinaire Mark Waring, who reunites with the singular mind of Wes Anderson for his new canine-centric feature “Isle of Dogs,” is Anderson’s “eyes and ears” on the animation ...

This past June, I attended the 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams in Anaheim, California. It was my fifth time attending the five-day conference, which ...