While Pixar has delivered innovative characters in recent years, including the ethereal Joe from “Soul” and the illuminating Joy from “Inside Out,” they aren’t nearly as complex as the fiery Ember and ...

Over 25 years, Pixar's cloth animation has come so far that it was able to build an entire character out of a pair of pants for 2020's "Onward." We take a look at the labor- and time-intensive process ...

The girls and women of anime tend to experience the conflicting emotions of real life. That’s because the auteurs try to create “an everyday, real person.” By Charles Solomon At a time of widespread ...

For more than 100 years, across the world, in many diverse cultures, animation has featured talking animals. Indeed, the anthropomorphised cat, dog, mouse, ape, duck and rabbit have populated ...

What's up Complex readers? Today I have the honor of introducing extended family named The Madtwiinz. The Madtwiinz are incredible animators who have mastered the ability to combine hip-hop music and ...

Pete Docter, director and co-writer of Pixar’s “Soul,” appraised his co-workers by saying, “This team is crazy good.” The film entailed four years of production and hundreds of workers. “I think most ...

Expressions in After Effects refer to lines of code that you can apply to layers on your project timeline. They are frequently used to adjust the properties of layers, such as the Anchor Point, ...

From social commentary to emotional health, these five animated films show how the medium now carries stories built for more than young audiences. Animated releases over the last decade have shifted ...

A well-crafted animation short reminds us that the medium can produce much more than kiddie fare. It's been awhile since we've featured an animation short on these pages. Oftentimes, the shorts in ...

Lucas Kloberdanz-Dyck is a writer for Collider. He grew up creating lists, stories, and worlds, which led to his love of anime and video games. He attended Sheridan College where he earned an Honours ...