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 ...

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While Odyssey focused primarily on 35mm back-lit motion graphics and special effects for the first 5 years of its existence, its award-winning release of the world's first home entertainment video of ...

July 31, New York, NY—School of Visual Arts President David Rhodes has announced the appointment of James (Jimmy) Calhoun as chair of the College’s BFA Computer Art Computer Animation and Visual ...

Part 1. Origins of animation -- Chapter 1. Setting the scene for animation. Early innovations in simulating movement ; The printing press and comic strips ; The impact of photography on studies of ...

Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped pioneer the science and art of computer graphics and made many of the first computer-generated pictures, portraits and movies, died ...

His work at Bell Labs in the 1960s laid the groundwork for today’s computer-generated imagery in film and on TV. By Cade Metz Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped ...