Illustrator Kyle Steed’s sketchy looking icons are the cure for anyone bored by chrome-drenched, perfectly polished user interfaces. But that’s not to say you can’t find stuff in Steed’s set that’s ...

When Walt Disney Co’s animated film “Home on the Range” debuts Friday, it may signal the end of an era for hand-drawn cartoon features as the company that all but created the art form moves to ...

The element of surprise is an inherent part of the creative process. Even those who meticulously plan out their projects can be unexpectedly stymied or inspired by the friend/foe of a blank canvas, ...

Researchers have built the first computer program that can recognize hand-drawn sketches better than humans. Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have built the first computer ...

Much is written about the enormous impact of technology in such film disciplines as cinematography and visual effects, but production design has also been hugely affected. One of the big issues these ...

As a child growing up in the mid-'90s, I was raised on a nutritious diet of 100 percent hand drawn Disney movies: think Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Cinderella, Beauty And The Beast and the ...

Last month a Japanese TV crew traveled to Pixar where director Isao Takahata was treating the studio’s artists to a screening of his new Studio Ghibli film The Story of Princess Kaguya. The TV show ...