But those death notices were premature: This year, digital ones and zeros took a back seat to clay, models and hand-drawn characters. The Academy’s animation branch on Tuesday ignored such CGI ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As it is with every form of technology, animation and CGI quickly rose to new heights. The entry from 2025 on this list is enough ...

You may not know that two of the biggest names in film and technology were involved in the initiation of Pixar Animation Studios. In 1979, George Lucas – the creator of Star Wars – commissioned ...

When Toy Story opened in theaters on Nov. 22, 1995, it not only introduced audiences to iconic characters Woody and Buzz Lightyear, it also reshaped the future of animation. As the first fully ...

When the curtain rises on the Computer Animation Festival at SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver (August 10-14), attendees will be treated to a celebration of the first computer-animated feature ever made.