John Whitney Sr. was a pioneer of computer animation who built an analog computer/film camera hybrid out of an old World War II anti-aircraft gun sight in the early 1960s.

They’re still fun to watch, and show how quickly computer animation evolved in its early days. Here are a few cartoons that PDI made back when it was helping to establish computer animation as ...

For many years, the use and growth of technology has facilitated animation’s development. From the early ages of the phenakistoscope disk (spindle viewer) or flipbook, to the invention of the ...

Debora Wood, curator of the Block Museum’s exhibition Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print, will introduce this program of short films that explores the development of ...

The gig: Animator Hao Li, 34, is an assistant professor of computer science at USC, running a small, newly renovated lab with five graduate students at the university's school of engineering.

With the rise of nostalgia for 8-bit video games and the “New Aesthetic” celebrating the look of digital technologies, it’s a perfect time to revisit the work of Stan VanDerBeek, a pioneer ...

Here’s my question for the CG historians: what happened to vector animation between 1974 and the early-90s?