Having spent several weeks staring at the subway posters for “Gnomeo and Juliet,” a computer-animated retelling of Shakespeare’s classic in which the star-crossed lovers are lawn ornaments, I can ...

Directed by Pierre Perifel and loosely based on the children's book series by Aaron Blabey, The Bad Guys 2 sees reformed criminals Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Shark and Ms. Tarantula try ...

2014 was a great year to be an animation fan. Not only was there an unprecedented number of animated feature films released, there an astoundingly broad array of styles and techniques on display. It ...

Gematsu recently sat down with Toshiyuki Kubooka, the character designer and animation director behind the LUNAR series, to discuss the remastered editions of LUNAR: Silver Star Story and LUNAR: ...

Bugs, Bart, SpongeBob, Stewie, Daffy, Dora, and Baby Huey. Where do all those crazy and creative voices come from? What is it about the simplistic nature of a cartoon world in which characters and ...

Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch includes practically all the characters from the 2002 animated movie, providing an idea of how the characters look in live-action vs. animation. The 2025 live-action ...

Although many festivals and awards shows honor the animation art form, a small handful, like ASIFA-Hollywood’s Annie Awards, recognize the individual achievements of the artists behind the images we ...

It started with a mouse—and thank God they didn’t name him Mortimer. Walt Disney may have whiffed it with the name he originally proposed for Mickey, but his eye for character design was clear from ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The character design sheet for Magneto shows several different iterations of the costume Magneto ...

Even though Castlevania: Nocturne takes place in the same universe as Castlevania, the spin-off series has a distinct style that silently informs viewers that this is a different show – and also a ...