A new piece of software just released from animation startup Midas Touch Interactive called Midas Creature is designed to add secondary animation to 2d characters – automatically. Midas Touch ...

There are many Disney fans out there who long for the days of traditional, artful, hand-drawn animation, harkening back to the golden days of the Disney Renaissance. Now, after practical years of ...

There’s a myth that true immersion into video games requires three dimensions: sidescrollers are good for nostalgia, but the future belongs to photorealistic 3D worlds. Fiquet says he created ...

William Fischer is an author at Collider. Born and raised in Nebraska, he latched onto moviemaking at a young age and has been chasing it ever since. William holds a BFA in film from the University of ...

2D animation is rapidly becoming a required skill set for filmmakers and artists. Many diverse industries—such as business, the entertainment industry, and the legal and medical industries—look to 2D ...

While Studio MDHR has yet to reveal its plans for the future following the release of Cuphead, the developer does intend to use hand-drawn 2D animation for whatever comes next. On the latest episode ...

Streaming April 27 on Disney+, the doc series about the art of hand-drawn animation arrives as the studio returns to traditional 2D. “Sketchbook,” Disney’s six-part documentary series devoted to the ...

There’s something undeniably magical about 2D games. They don’t need hyper-realistic lighting engines or million-dollar motion capture to leave players awestruck. Instead, they paint their worlds with ...

Pixar tells IndieWire about the retro opportunities of exploring the dog and fanny pack stars of the fictional preschool show "Bloofy's House." It’s been a long time coming, but Pixar has finally ...

Animation and gaming, kindred worlds from the start, have converged in various ways over the decades. The industries have shared writers, designers, characters, franchises. Technology, too: recently, ...