animation

"Your Name"

The biggest anime film of all time comes to the US

"Your Name" has garnered international acclaim. It's already the highest-grossing anime film ever, currently raking in over $330 million worldwide, and that's before hitting US theaters this week.

The biggest anime film of all time comes to the US

Michael Dudok de Wit on “The Red Turtle”

Michael Dudok de Wit on “The Red Turtle”
Children Versus Wizards

Russia's anti-Semitic, anti-Harry Potter children's tale

Russia's anti-Semitic, anti-Harry Potter children's tale

The Greatest Penguin GIFs on the Internet

The Greatest Penguin GIFs on the Internet

Our Favorite Valentine GIFs, From You

Our Favorite Valentine GIFs, From You

"Rugrats" All Growed Up, for Real

Millennial fans of the 1990s cartoon "Rugrats" are illustrating the characters as adults. Now, one of the show's original artists draws the Rugrats as they would really look in 2015.

"Rugrats" All Growed Up, for Real

Watch the Best Student Animators Before They Go Pro

CalArts, the legendary animation school that feeds Pixar, has put its annual showcase of student work online for all to see.

Watch the Best Student Animators Before They Go Pro

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

This week, Thom Yorke inexplicably becomes the poster child for Iranian marriage issues and the internet learns how to wow Owen Wilson.

Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

New Year’s Resolution: Calligraphy in 3D

We check in with Garman Herigstad, who is making a calligraphy version of the Book of Proverbs. Now, his project’s ambition has grown to three dimensions.

New Year’s Resolution: Calligraphy in 3D

A Beautiful Music Video Is Buried at the End of This Obscure Video Game

Only a video game released exclusively in Japan would reward its players with a spare, sleek, utterly delightful ode to color and sound.

A Beautiful Music Video Is Buried at the End of This Obscure Video Game

How "Finding Nemo" Changed My Life

A kindergarten teacher with a comfortable job watched “Finding Nemo” on a whim. She didn’t realize how it would change her life. 

How "Finding Nemo" Changed My Life

Reality Gets Demented

Using nothing more than an iPhone and some office supplies, an animator makes the real world teem with cartoons.

Reality Gets Demented

Classic Disney Pencil Animations Come to Life in GIFs

GIF turns out to be the perfect format to experience the simple beauty of hand-drawn animation.

Classic Disney Pencil Animations Come to Life in GIFs

The Greatest Animated Film Never Made

"The Thief and the Cobbler," an Aladdin-like film worked on by former Disney animators, took 30 years to make and was never released.

The Greatest Animated Film Never Made
The World

'My life in a nutshell is thoughts about sex every 9 seconds and being depressed every 12 seconds'

Latvian animator Signe Baumane has battled depression for most of her life — a battle that was made even more difficult by the oppressive culture of the Soviet Union. But when she discovered her depression had hereditary roots, she decided to make a film about the illness, one that's surreal, dark and funny all at once.

'My life in a nutshell is thoughts about sex every 9 seconds and being depressed every 12 seconds'