Joe Letteri, Oscar-winning co-creator of Gollum on screen, looks at the evolution of computer animation as the next instalment of The Hobbit trilogy reaches cinemas. Computer animation is a natural ...

SIGGRAPH, the premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, which takes place July 19-23 at the L.A. Convention Center this year, has announced the winners of its prestigious ...

It’s hard to believe we’re in a world where the original Toy Story, the first fully computer-generated feature film, is more than 20 years old. Its computer animation was revolutionary for 1995, but ...

Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating animated images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while ...

This past weekend, you relived the wonder of Jurassic Park and remembered the first time you saw convincing CG effects on screen. But Jurassic Park built on a long legacy of computer innovation, more ...

The SIGGRAPH 2025 international conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques has announced the award-winning films in this year’s Academy Award-qualifying Computer Animation Festival.

Ken Knowlton, artist and computer animation pioneer, died on June 16 at a hospice facility in Sarasota, Florida. According to his son, Rick Knowlton, the cause of death was unclear. Knowlton was an ...

His work at Bell Labs in the 1960s laid the groundwork for today’s computer-generated imagery in film and on TV. By Cade Metz Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped ...