Unexpected double lives, mysterious alternate realms, impending environmental doom, tech addiction, the complexities of parent-child relationships, gender fluidity, racial justice—these are just a few ...

July 31, New York, NY—School of Visual Arts President David Rhodes has announced the appointment of James (Jimmy) Calhoun as chair of the College’s BFA Computer Art Computer Animation and Visual ...

Mastering painting and drawing is no longer enough to succeed in the animation industry — coding and scripting are essential requirements for a position at a top animation firm. "Right now almost all ...

Ken Knowlton, artist and computer animation pioneer, died on June 16 at a hospice facility in Sarasota, Florida. According to his son, Rick Knowlton, the cause of death was unclear. Knowlton was an ...

The School of Visual Arts’ animation departments — BFA Animation; BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation, and Visual Effects; and MFA Computer Arts — have an amazing and diverse group of alumni that ...

A badge of honor, to many people, would be an award or merit of some type. But not to cartoonist Ed Seeman. Musician Frank Zappa called Seeman “a freak,” when referring to him during a cough drop ...

While Odyssey focused primarily on 35mm back-lit motion graphics and special effects for the first 5 years of its existence, its award-winning release of the world's first home entertainment video of ...

When I heard the news, my mind didn’t turn to any of the big-budget features produced by PDI/Dreamworks, starting with Antz in 1998. Instead, I thought about an era well before there was a DreamWorks.

Back in the 1980s, Stephen Spielberg launched “Amazing Stories,” a science fiction/fantasy anthology series in the “Twilight Zone” tradition. The show’s intro featured a Neolithic storyteller ...

Three decades ago, such terms as computer art, virtual reality and computer animation had not yet entered our vocabulary. This was a time for the experimentation and innovation that produced today's ...

Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped pioneer the science and art of computer graphics and made many of the first computer-generated pictures, portraits and movies, died ...