Studio Ghibli’s world is built on rules that seem almost impossible in modern animation. While much of the industry has raced toward larger teams, algorithmic workflows, and digital shortcuts, some of ...

Cuphead is one of those games that’s been “just around the corner” for the last several years. Studio MDHR’s retro platformer became an instant indie darling the moment critics saw the game in 2013, ...

Truly, it’s hard to overstate just how disrupting the emergence of CG was to traditionally-trained animators like Blaise.

An indie documentary exploring the art form of hand-drawn animation through a contemporary lens in the digital era. Featuring insights and anecdotes by hand-drawn animation artists from around the ...

Ali is blessed with the opportunity to use his love of gaming and anime, along with his writing skills, to create intriguing and educational content for a wide range of topics as a passionate and ...

Don't worry, StudioMDHR is working on another hand-drawn Cuphead game, too.

When Walt and Roy Disney launched the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923, traditional hand-drawn 2D animation put them on the map. After the massive success of the first animated feature film ...

When animator Stefan Gruber was eight, they saw a dog run across a wall, not in real life, but in Jules Engel’s hand-drawn short “Accident,” projected during a Pioneer Square art walk. That was the ...

The Cuphead Show! follows Cuphead, a brash and headstrong kid with a knack for getting himself into trouble, and Mugman, his more timid and cautious brother. In the first episode, Cuphead manages to ...

In 1908, Émile Cohl released the short film Fantasmagorie, widely regarded as the world's first animated cartoon. From these humble beginnings, cartoons blew up into detailed theatre shorts by the ...

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