Despicable Me 3 makes the classic sequel mistake of deciding that the way to keep a franchise going is to keep wasting screen time on lots of new, increasingly desperate-looking characters when really ...

I first saw When the Day Breaks at Annecy Festival in 1999. This film totally gripped me: the formal freedom, with the mix of traditional animation and rotoscoping; the rhythm, with the jitteriness of ...

We caught up with Aaron Long for the latest entry in The Animation That Changed Me, a series in which leading filmmakers and artists discuss one work of animation that deeply influenced them. Long is ...

For Universal Pictures, all it took was some puny yellow minions to tackle the giants of animation. The studio’s movie “Despicable Me,” about a villain who enlists an army of yapping subordinates to ...

We haven't heard anything about DreamWorks Animation's Me and My Shadow, an original story that will blend hand drawn, two-dimensional animation with three-dimensional computer animation since the ...

A record six cartoon flicks hit between Memorial Day and Labor Day; says DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, "This will be the strongest summer for animation ever." By Pamela McClintock ...

From its inception in 1908 with Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, film animation has always been a medium that esteems the conveyance of visuals, by its very definition. As animation as we know it has ...

DreamWorks Animation plans to release its CG/hand-drawn hybrid Me and My Shadow in March 2013. According to Variety, the film is about "Shadow Stan, an incredibly frustrated shadow that yearns for a ...

Rosemary Wu is an animation artist and director who combines cultural storytelling with animation innovation. Her latest project, Happily Ever After (2025), breaks away from the typical fairy tale ...