Walt Disney Animation might have gotten its start in the world of 2D animation, but for more than a decade now, it's transitioned almost exclusively to 3D animation. It’s a move that made sense at the ...

Streaming April 27 on Disney+, the doc series about the art of hand-drawn animation arrives as the studio returns to traditional 2D. “Sketchbook,” Disney’s six-part documentary series devoted to the ...

One of Disney's biggest eras for its animated films that lasted for decades officially ended 15 years ago today, and it's ...

Disney+’s “Sketchbook,” streaming now, is a fascinating and emotional look at the artists behind your favorite Disney characters. The set-up is simple: each episode has an animator instructing you on ...

How sad and ironic: A week after the wonderful “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” 25th anniversary celebration at the Academy, Disney lays off some key hand-drawn 2D animation vets as part of its studio-wide ...

An archive video shows Disney has always been trying to create the illusion of life in animation.

If the average person was asked to name some of Disney’s most influential animated classics, you’d probably hear names like Snow White, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, or The Lion King. Far ...

Speaking at an annual shareholder's meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday, chief executive Bob Iger revealed that none of the studio's animation companies was working on 2D, hand-drawn material ...

Truly, it's hard to overstate just how disrupting the emergence of CG was to traditionally-trained animators like Blaise.