SIGGRAPH 2026 Computer Animation Festival Celebrates Global Storytelling, Alongside a Blockbuster Production Sessions Lineup

SIGGRAPH 2026, the world's premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, is once again spotlighting the ...
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Computer Graphics Students Demo Final Projects

Combining art, science, engineering, and the psychology of human perception and interaction, computer graphics involves the creation and manipulation of visual content used in applications ranging ...
Cartoon Brew

Ken Knowlton, A Founding Father Of Computer Art And Animation, Dies at 91

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Animation shifting away from the clean lines of CG in favor of messier, retro styles

While deciding how to animate “Elemental” (Pixar), director Peter Sohn was having a crisis. How do you animate fire? Or water? He could take cues from Hayao Miyazaki’s Calcifer in “Howl’s Moving ...
Yahoo

The First-Ever Computer Animated Character Is a Creepy Cat

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We take seamless computer animation for granted these days. It’s hard not to when it’s growing increasingly difficult to decipher ...
The Conversation

‘Jurassic Park’ made a dinosaur‑sized leap forward in computer‑generated animation on screen, 25 years ago

With 25 years of hindsight, “Jurassic Park” marks a pivotal point in the history of visual effects in film. It came 11 years after 1982’s “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” debuted computer-generated ...