List of best animation and anime this year. But when settling on what were the most significant moments this year, I tried to determine which ones made the biggest waves in the cultural zeitgeist.

It's been years since any version of old-school cell animation dominated the Oscars, but this year's Academy Award-nominated animated shorts offer a particularly strong sampler of contemporary ...

In 1920, animated cartoons were well known and part of a growing and thriving movie industry, but this is also when the 19-year-old Walt Disney was just beginning as a cartoon filmmaker in Kansas ...

Help keep Salon independent. Newsletter. Profile Login/Sign Up ... Learn the best design and animation tools of the trade. By Salon Marketplace. Published July 10, 2018 9:00AM (EDT) --Shares.

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. Over the last decade, the world of animation made specifically for adults has expanded far beyond some of the veteran series that helped pioneer the genre, like ...

The Danish animated documentary "Flee" directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen is a powerful feat of storytelling. So much so it has earned several awards and nominations. "Flee" tells the story of Amin ...

Salon spoke with Rasmussen about his film and his chances at the Oscars. ... Obviously, animation was used to protect Amin’s identity. Can you discuss how you visually approached the story, ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. At only 12 years old, Shaylee Mansfield is already breaking new ground with the animated series “Madagascar: A Little Wild.” Despite her youth, it still took her ...

Although he has suggested retirement before, on Friday Miyazaki told a packed room of 600 journalists in Tokyo that “I’m really serious this time," adding, "My era of animation is over." ...

An animation from New Scientist examines just that: how and why animals communicate. It turns out that it would be narcissistic and reductive to think that humans were the only species capable of ...