How the Adventure Time team reunited (sort of) to make 2025’s wildest cartoon

The pieces loosely fit together, but they’re best enjoyed as a triptych of visually and tonally distinct stories: The four ...
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I made this Venn diagram to explain the year’s best animated movies

Robot Dreams and Flow are both silent movies, with a lot of emphasis on the characters’ physicality and how they express themselves without words. Survival adventure Flow is very grounded in how real ...
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’s directors let Shrek inspire the series’ reinvention

“When the first Shrek movie came out, it was quite groundbreaking,” Joel Crawford, co-director of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, told Polygon in a recent interview. “With CG, it was so impressive [with ...
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Former Mass Effect animator speaks out on Mass Effect: Andromeda’s visuals

Jonathan Cooper is no stranger to speaking out on the process of creating character animations in video games. Just a few years ago, Polygon interviewed the former animation director for Assassin’s ...