While often stereotyped as kiddie fare, animated films can be far more than mindless entertainment for little ones, even ...

Rusty nails are repurposed and transformed into a polished Damascus steel blade through a detailed forging process. The metal is cleaned, heated, and compressed to form a solid billet. Repeated ...

Not in the insidious, rubbing-your-hands-together way. Instead, he’s trying to figure out his next move – or, to be more specific, moves, in the increasingly pothole-filled world of animation. The ...

Just like it is for the Club Hot List, the Golf Ball Hot List is determined through two primary criteria: Performance and Innovation. In the Golf Ball Hot List, the Performance score is assessed by ...

When Jeremy Spears set out to direct an animated short film with longtime friend Nathan Engelhardt, the co-directors thought it would take them about a year — not six — to make their Oscar-nominated ...

In this video, I forge a cross peen hammer, a unique project that explores two new techniques: the "pilot holes" method for punching the eye, resulting in a straight eye but requiring substantial ...

Digital-native animator Sleepy Ghost didn’t come to animation through film school or a traditional visual arts background. He arrived sideways, through music, burnout, and a browser-based pixel art ...

The latest exhibit at Orange County Regional History Center may get creative juices flowing and prompt waves of nostalgia. “Animationland” provides hands-on artistic activities, and its companion ...

For Disney’s long anticipated sequel to 2016’s Zootopia, director Byron Howard needed some new ideas for characters and the technology to make them come to life. When Gary De’Snake came in for ...

One of America's fastest-growing restaurant chains, which specializes in Nashville-style hot chicken, may be coming to Gastonia. In an email Oct. 29, the city’s director of Economic Development, ...