Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Despite advances in ...

At 20 years of age, Charlie Collier of Zapamation may be a young filmmaker, but he’s already got almost eight years of stop-motion experience behind him. A self-taught animator, he says he was able to ...

Movement brings shapes to life, creating connections for an audience. Animation can also bring data to life, during both the visual exploration and storytelling phases. By animating data ...

Whether you believe the hype or not, virtual reality is here. Billions of dollars are being spent on vr headset development, vr content creation, and getting users to adopt the technology. The content ...

While art skills are obviously important to a career in animation, they’re only one thing that influences an artist’s success. As films, TV series and games are large scale operations, often employing ...

Animating Principle's Workshop is where compassion and critical thinking meet. From the neurodivergent, whimsical, creative minds of Animating Principle's husband and wife duo, Britney and Sean, the ...

This past June, I attended the 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams in Anaheim, California. It was my fifth time attending the five-day conference, which ...

In this short film, special effects artist Dennis Muren explains how he and his team animated the AT-AT Walkers from The Empire Strikes Back. Have a look—this is just under two minutes: The Star Wars ...