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Razorfish Converge Shingerview: David Gerlach, Founder and CEO, Blank on Blank

David Shing | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business
David Shing

David Gerlach is the founder of Blank on Blank, an original take on using the power of video to bring audio to life. Blank on Blank uncovers "lost audio" and animates it using a variety of tools and partners.

WATCH: Calculus Gets Artsy

Posted 05.11.2013 | Arts

Even if you hated math class, you'll be entranced by Daniel Sierra's new computer animation "Oscillate." The video above is an audio-visual delight wh...

Marge Simpson's Namesake Has Died

Posted 05.08.2013 | TV

Margaret "Marge" Groening, the mother of "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening and inspiration for the show's blue-haired matriarch, has died in her sleep ...

Ethnographic Animation: How Reality and Animation Collide

Vanessa Van Edwards | Posted 04.22.2013 | Arts
Vanessa Van Edwards

As audiences become more sophisticated and used to 'reality' television, animators may be able to use body language science to help make characters more believable.

Vocal Cast for Disney's Planes Includes a Top Gun Reunion, Top Names From Stand-up Comedy

Jim Hill | Posted 03.27.2013 | Entertainment
Jim Hill

The Planes production team did come up with an appealing aerodynamic cast for this animated feature. But then the question became, who would Disney recruit to come voice this new set of characters?

WATCH: 'Calvin & Hobbes' Finally Animated

Posted 03.19.2013 | Comedy

The comic strip "Calvin & Hobbes" has never seen an authorized animation for one reason: Its creator, Bill Watterson, has refused several lucrative of...

Wiz of A Wiz!

Ambre Anderson | Posted 05.19.2013 | Entertainment
Ambre Anderson

Oz The Great and Powerful When someone asks, "Are you the Wizard?", you say Yes! The new prequel spin on the classic: The Wizard of Oz takes us on a...

Mickey Mouse Gets a Retro Makeover for the Disney Channel's New Series of 2D Animated Shorts

Jim Hill | Posted 05.12.2013 | Entertainment
Jim Hill

Expect to see a pie-eyed Mouse starring in all-new animated adventures that will take these classic Disney characters from Paris to Tokyo to the Alps and NYC and all points in between.

Videos: Popup Books Meet Animation, Magic Ensues

Jane Chafin | Posted 05.12.2013 | Arts
Jane Chafin

Artists Davy & Kristin McGuire had a dream of creating a full scale, life-size theatre performance that opened up like a pop-up book, a show that would mix video projections with live actors to create a totally immersive experience.

Absurd Apple Posters Made By 'The Simpsons' Creator

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 03.08.2013 | Technology

Before "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening sent Homer on a 23 year, 500-plus episode odyssey of "d'oh!" on FOX, he had another high profile employer:...

You'll Go Nuts Over This 'Blue Balls Blues' Video

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 03.07.2013 | Comedy

The award for best new video with puppet testicles is in the bag. Rusty and Vern hang out together to sing the "Blue Balls Blues" in a fun public s...

A Visit With the Walt Disney of Italy, Writer/Director Iginio Straffi

Xaque Gruber | Posted 05.01.2013 | Entertainment
Xaque Gruber

Iginio Straffi's journey to becoming an entertainment mogul began with drawing comics at six years old and selling them to friends. Today, Straffi is best known as the creator of the Winx Club, an animated action/fantasy series.

The Croods Directors Reveal How DreamWorks Animation's Caveman Comedy-adventure Evolved

Jim Hill | Posted 04.24.2013 | Entertainment
Jim Hill

Though DreamWorks Animation's The Croods may sound crude, based on the enthusiastic response that this film got during its world premiere last week in Berlin, this animated comedy has a sweet & sophisticated side.

Rich Moore Looks Back at the Roads Not Taken With Disney's Wreck-It Ralph

Jim Hill | Posted 04.21.2013 | Entertainment
Jim Hill

It was the story that artists at Walt Disney Animation Studios had been struggling to get a handle on for over 15 years. So how did this stalled-out video game movie wind up becoming Wreck-It Ralph, one of five films to be nominated for Best Animated Feature Oscar?

Shootout at the U.S. Constitution Corral

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 04.15.2013 | Comedy
Jeff Kreisler

Who's responsible for the gun violence in America? The First and Second Amendment have a stand-off.

The Online Premiere of Disney's Paperman

Jim Hill | Posted 04.01.2013 | Entertainment
Jim Hill

2013-01-30-Paperman Now don't let this charming, deceptively simple-looking film fool you. Though Paperman may have a limited color palette (i.e. grey, white, black & red), the sky's the limit when it comes to the innovative technology that actually made this animated short possible.

WATCH: When 3D Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong

Posted 01.28.2013 | Comedy

Godspeed, whoever made this amazing experimental animation sequence of Scar killing Mufasa in "The Lion King." We'd say it uses the best computer anim...

'Archer' Premiere: 'Bob's Burgers' Crossover

The Huffington Post | Jason Hughes | Posted 01.18.2013 | TV

"Archer" kicked off its fourth season with a fun nod to series star H. Jon Benjamin. His signature voice is also the lead on Fox's "Bob's Burgers," so...

It's Got a Good Beat and You Can Dance to It: E-lit Plays With Time

Illya Szilak | Posted 03.19.2013 | Books
Illya Szilak

Unlike conventional literature, which relies on sentence and word density, phrasing and transitional passages to alter narrative rhythm, e-lit can directly modify the reader's perception of time.

WATCH: Live-Action 'Toy Story'

Posted 01.14.2013 | Comedy

There's no question that "Toy Story" was revolutionary when it was released in 1995. The Pixar production was the first-ever motion picture to be anim...

Fiction in New Forms

Electric Literature | Posted 02.04.2013 | Books
Electric Literature

While writers may welcome the Oulipian challenge of crafting prose fit for a tweet, Twitter isn't the first outlet for experimental publishing. And it likely isn't the last.

Review: Rise of the Guardians

Scott Mendelson | Posted 01.19.2013 | Entertainment
Scott Mendelson

Imagine Bryan Singer's X-Mencrafted in a fashion where you were already expected to have read the comics and/or watched the 1990s cartoon before entering the theater and you have an idea of how this film plays out.

Ultimate Twilight Saga Parody Mashup (VIDEO)

Shira Lazar | Posted 01.15.2013 | Entertainment
Shira Lazar

Watch intently as the love triangle between Edward, Bella and Jacob unfolds throughout a slew of amusing comedy sketches, animations, and remixes, including the classic Bad Lip reading, trailer spoofs, emo vampire song, Barking Dawg Paw 2 Petody and, of course, "Jacob, keep your shirt on."

Stop-Motion Literature

Electric Literature | Posted 01.09.2013 | Books
Electric Literature

2012-11-09-BrandonRayELUsing construction paper and stop-motion animation, Brandon Ray has created a haunting and heartbreaking animation for Electric Literature's Single Sentence Animation series.

REVIEW: 'Wreck-It Ralph' Charms

AP | JUSTIN LOWE | Posted 12.31.2012 | Entertainment

LOS ANGELES — Guided by executive producer John Lasseter, Walt Disney Animation Studios has clearly devoted significant resources and talent to ...