The news yesterday about Chris deFaria taking over the top role at Dreamworks Animation raised a lot of eyebrows in the animation world. Why is a guy who made his reputation in vfx taking over a ...

With Hollywood’s animation ranks loaded with traditional-track hires, 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' director Peter Ramsey, 'Big Mouth' new voice Ayo Edebiri, Sony Pictures Animation exec Karen ...

A continuing series in which we map out what major corporations own in terms of characters, studios, and distribution platforms. This week’s company is ViacomCBS, which exists since the 2019 ...

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 ...

During its CinemaCon presentation this past spring, Paramount Pictures made animation the center of its showcase, showing off a slate of seven franchise films over the next two years that kicks off ...

Dean DeBlois, Jill Culton and Jinko Gotoh join the conversation on finding the right voice talent, progress on the diversity front and why there’s never been a better time to put an imaginative spin ...

Anime has become incredibly popular in more spaces over the last three decades in the West. Indeed, it has become a much more important piece of the pop-cultural consciousness as anime can be seen all ...

The international animation sector has seen better days. A market correction in the U.S., combined with a commissioning landscape that has yet to return to pre-strike levels-and likely never will-has ...

Toei Animation, the studio behind One Piece, has come under scrutiny after announcing plans to integrate AI into its production processes. This move has led to backlash from fans who fear that AI ...