How much access do you have to a 3D printer? What would you do if you had weeks of time on your hands and a couple spools of filament lying around? Perhaps you would make a two second stop-motion ...

A stop-motion animator can spend a week manipulating a small puppet around, frame by frame, for a total of just three seconds of footage. Why would anyone want to do that? The truth is, fewer and ...

Every year, five films are nominated for an Academy Award in the “Visual Effects” category. Each of the projects nominated this year offer a unique, inside look at the amazing tricks filmmakers and ...

The forthcoming After Effects 25 will debut a major set of improvements to make it easier to animate and blend 3D objects seamlessly with real-world footage and 2D elements. Customers have been ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations ...

From hand-drawn cel animation to lifelike 3D modeling, today’s creators have more animation styles and tools at their fingertips than ever before. Whether you’re using mobile apps like FlipaClip or ...

The work our students create can be seen in TV shows, films, commercials, and video games. This is where you belong if you are interested in the animated films of Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks, and Sony ...

3D Animation: Expressive Motion covers the 12 principles of animation and enables students to establish character believability through expressive posing and motion. Through this process, students ...