The weekly magazine, started in 1925, is using crowdsourcing algorithms for the first time to find the funniest cartoon captions. Scientists see big potential in these jokes. Ben Fox Rubin was a ...

A montage of scribbly cartoon faces, each conveying with distinct personality, would make any parent proud of their child's artistic creation...except a child didn't produce these faces; a computer ...

CANNES, France -- Even the snooty Cannes Film Festival loves computer animation, which has become such the rage in Hollywood it has virtually displaced traditional hand-drawn cartoons on studio slates ...

Ever fancied becoming a cartoon character? New animation software can turn digital videos into smoothly animated cartoons. Computer scientist Michael Cohen, of Microsoft research in Redmond, ...

Driving a car is still a few years away, but Steven Canady can go places on a computer. A seventh grader, Canady is a member of the MacroMedia User's Group at Hamilton Middle School in Denver. Boys in ...

The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival announced the award winners in its three competitive categories, as well as the lineup of 24 short films, breakdowns, scientific visualizations, advertisements ...

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CANNES, France (AP) -- Even the snooty Cannes Film Festival loves computer animation, which has become such the rage in Hollywood it has virtually displaced traditional hand-drawn cartoons on studio ...