In the 1950s and ’60s, book cover designers borrowed from the aesthetics of the burgeoning Op art movement, creating brightly colored geometric patterns that looked like mass-produced Bridget Rileys ...

Bumblebee is one of the most beloved and iconic characters throughout the Transformers franchise. He was initially introduced as a small, yellow Autobot with a big heart and since has taken quite a ...

The BBC is on a roll with its sporting animations this summer. After hitting the net with the claymation Euro 2025 animation featuring a star-studded fantasy team, it went for a similarly handcrafted ...

Megatron is one of the most iconic and formidable villains in the Transformers universe. As the leader of the Decepticons, he will stop at nothing to take control of Earth and destroy Optimus Prime ...

Jake Gyllenhaal voices a bold explorer in a Disney toon that nods to undersung classics like "The Iron Giant" without capturing their magic. By now, we’re all aware of how obsessed with nostalgia our ...

A highlight of the Trump-like satire voiced by Alec Baldwin is the graphic, 2D look of the alternate reality. For DreamWorks director Tom McGrath (the “Madagascar” franchise), “The Boss Baby” not only ...

From NASA’s 1977 Aeronautics and Space Report comes this retro-tastic animation of the Agency’s logo in spiral. It’s one of a few old-school logo-animations from the Agency that have been making their ...

A super unique animation screening series is happening this Sunday, April 20, in Los Angeles: The Animation Freakout Hangout, which is billed as L.A.’s first “all-vintage festival of far out, ...

While deciding how to animate “Elemental” (Pixar), director Peter Sohn was having a crisis. How do you animate fire? Or water? He could take cues from Hayao Miyazaki’s Calcifer in “Howl’s Moving ...

Natalie (She/Her) is a writer and game design enthusiast hailing from way-too-sunny Los Angeles. She loves to dissect game narrative and analyze mechanics, but she doesn’t even want to think about how ...

Digital creation is instant. It is mathematically flawless. But it severely lacks a physical soul. When I sit in my studio to paint a legendary character like Jerry the mouse, I am not searching for ...