LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — Computer animation may have taken control of the big-screen cartoon world, yet two of the world’s animation masters remain committed to the hand-drawn form. Japan’s Hayao ...

It’s been years since Disney made an animated film that Walt himself could have rolled up his sleeves and pitched in on. The traditional, hand-drawn “classic” animation fell out of favor with ...

Last month a Japanese TV crew traveled to Pixar where director Isao Takahata was treating the studio’s artists to a screening of his new Studio Ghibli film The Story of Princess Kaguya. The TV show ...

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost.

Smith, 48, who joined Disney in 1988, was supervising animator for the evil voodoo conjurer Dr. Facilier (Keith David) in "The Princess and the Frog." Smith is the creator and producer of "The Proud ...

When animator Stefan Gruber was eight, they saw a dog run across a wall, not in real life, but in Jules Engel’s hand-drawn short “Accident,” projected during a Pioneer Square art walk. That was the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hand-drawn animation, out of fashion in the computer age, experienced a rescue worthy of a fairy tale on Thursday, when Walt Disney animators announced they would bring back ...

Directed by Isamu Imakake, it details the physical and spiritual journey of two young cousins who meet one summer.

The Japanese market loves homegrown hand-drawn animation: In 2013, six of the 10 top-earning domestic films were toons, with Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Wind Rises,” at $120 million, topping the list. And ...

As a child growing up in the mid-'90s, I was raised on a nutritious diet of 100 percent hand drawn Disney movies: think Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Cinderella, Beauty And The Beast and the ...

A world without voicemail would be a wonderful world indeed. But that’s not going to happen — and even if it did, we’d lose small pleasures like “Animation Hotline,” in which Dustin Grella takes one ...