I like things to be clear, so just to be sure we’re all talking about the same thing, I decided to work out a bullet-proof definition of the art of cinema animation; something that covers all forms ...

Academy Award winning animator Gene Deitch has a few thoughts on THE POLAR EXPRESS and the definition of animation – and I am taking the liberty of posting them here (because I agree with him): I’ve ...

Bet on it: There will be rats in this year’s Oscar race. Reviews were so strong for Pixar’s “Ratatouille,” which scored an unheard-of 96 on Metacritic’s 100-point scale, that the toon could even be a ...

The tagline for Disney’s upcoming “Enchanted” could well be the motto for the latest push in animation: “The real world and the animated world collide.” Not simply colliding in the slapstick tradition ...

LOS ANGELES — The tagline for Disney's forthcoming Enchanted could well be the motto for the latest push in animation: "The real world and the animated world collide." Not simply colliding in the ...

Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10½ doesn’t meet the Academy’s “definition of animation,” despite relying exclusively on a 100-year-old hand-drawn 2-D animation technique. Photo: Netflix Linklater and ...

Bet on it: There will be rats in this year’s Oscar race. Reviews were so strong for Pixar’s “Ratatouille,” which scored an unheard-of 96 on Metacritic’s 100-point scale, that the toon could even be a ...