The field of animation has evolved in recent ... with straight lines and things that are clean," says Jeff Rowe, writer-director of "TMNT," which has the look of rough sketches animated with ...

Bessie Mae Kelley, an early animator and director.Credit ... The owner of the image, another animation historian, “presumed she was a cleaning lady or possibly a secretary,” Johnson said.

Many jobs in the industry are relatively obscure at best to outsiders. One of these that comes to mind is animation director. In order to shine a bit of a spotlight on this job and what it entails ...

The revered Mexican director and staunch champion of animation is raving about “Robot Dreams,” a hand-drawn urban fable that received a surprise Oscar nomination earlier this year. Del Toro ...