Roger Allers, animator, screenwriter, and co-director of “The Lion King”, dies at 76

Allers started his career on the storyboard team for "Tron," moving to Disney to work on animated classics like "Beauty and ...
Inverse

How a controversial H.P. Lovecraft movie became a sci-fi cult classic

Yet the most famous take on Lovecraft’s work will perhaps always remain the gloriously unhinged splatterfest in which the final victim is almost orally violated by a disembodied head. Unsurprisingly, ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Burny Mattinson, Animator and Disney’s Longest-Serving Employee, Dies at 87

His 70-year run with the company included work on 'Lady and the Tramp,' 'The Jungle Book,' 'The Lion King,' 'Strange World' and 'The Great Mouse Detective.' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Burny ...
Comicbook.com

Blue Lock Animator Unpacks the Anime’s Awful Animation: “It’s Very Sad”

Over on X (Twitter), animator EVAKOI broke down the situation in a damning post. It was there the artist, who worked on Blue Lock season one, called the situation around this season “very sad.” “Blue ...
Houston Chronicle

What Training Do You Need to Become an Animator?

The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that, in 2008, artists worked in 221,900 jobs; 79,000 of those jobs were in multimedia and animation. Animators create images for ...