For architecture buffs ... The films you chose to highlight were produced when the shift from hand to computer animation was taking place. What were the biggest artistic differences that resulted?

Computer generated imagery is now so ubiquitous ... One of the first documented animations was a Swedish demonstration of a planned highway. It's a pretty simple vector animation by today's ...

derived from computer-manipulated animations of the space. “We tried to tell a story with the architecture,” said Tighe. The curving walls, hovering above the floors, are often embedded with ...

Students from our BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Affects, MFA Computer Arts and BFA Animation departments—the last of these led by Hsiang Chin Moe (MFA 2008 Computer Art), the ...

Their work is yielding important clues on new ways to use animation and simulation to deepen students’ understanding of scientific phenomena. A computer model offers progressively detailed views ...

They did know that they were attempting something groundbreaking: the first full-length feature film to be produced entirely with computer animation. “Toy Story was shot entirely on location ...

As the industry continues to embrace computer-generated work, some audiences struggle to accept the change. By Calum Marsh The filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, a founder of the animation house Studio ...