Remember the moving photos that appear in newspapers and magazines in the Harry Potter stories?
“We didn’t know anything about videogames–that’s God’s honest truth.” That’s veteran animation director Don Bluth describing his gaming expertise before his studio created the animation for the 1983 arcade game Dragon’s Lair and its 1984 follow-up, Space Ace.
Dwayne McDuffie, the comics and animation writer, editor and producer who died this week following complications from surgery, wasn’t a particularly flashy writer: His aesthetic was to get out of the way of the way of the story. But he was a forward-thinking creator, and he quietly wrote a stack of comics and animated TV [...]
The Kinect might be Microsoft’s new add-on to their Xbox 360, but many gamers are finding other uses for it. Kinect hacks are growing in popularity and showing that the technology might be useful for more than gaming. Here’s some of our favorite modifications for the Kinect that we think will revolutionize your life.
Oh, the tender and twisted animation of Bill Plympton: How I love the way he skewers reality.
I can’t remember when it happened, when I first started to just assume that each and every Pixar project would be gold.
The cowboy and the spaceman. The piggy bank and the green dinosaur.
Animation skills can be taught, and in 1935, Walt Disney was working out just how to do that very thing, as a recently-uncovered letter demonstrates.
More proof that all of your childhood is returning comes in the form of the announcement that Voltron is next in line for a multimedia revival. World Events Productions, the company that owns the rights to the giant robot defender, announced today that not only will Nicktoons premiere a new animated series called Voltron Force, but Mattel also plans to push the character back onto toy shelves, as well.
The age of 3D is upon us, and though we certainly aren’t ignoring the simple pleasures of polarized technologies, we still have yet to fully embrace the change. That, and 3D TVs are still crazy expensive. Over at Time.com, Odd Todd explains the 3D process but more importantly, gives us a glimpse of exactly what [...]
