Amid a boom in African animation, animators will need all the tools they can get, as studios look to replicate the success of ...

Variety’s 10 animators to watch all have one thing in common: passion for the art form that has seen its popularity explode with global audiences. On Oct. 19 at 4 p.m. PT/7 P.M. ET, Nickelodeon ...

As with many animators, Thierry was a toddler who loved to draw. But her interest in animated film had gorier roots than most. “When I was 10, my mother put on ‘Akira,’” Thierry says.

Old animators are too rare. “Sometimes I do wonder where does everyone go over the age of 40,” said Tomm Moore, who noted that the workforce at his studio Cartoon Saloon (which is based in ...

Looking at more recent publicity shots of 2D animators, especially from the 1980s and ’90s, the animator-making-an-expression-in-a-mirror publicity shot was largely phased out in favor of a more ...