Tonight at the News Lounge, ladies and gents will hunch over light boxes and scribble on note cards while a rowdy bunch behind them waits its turn. It’s Drinking and Drawing, a sort of animated jam ...

The new series “Sketchbook” from Disney + takes animation fans and aspiring animators inside the world of creating some of the studio’s most beloved characters. From Olaf to the “Aladdin” Genie, ...

Disney has introduced some truly iconic villains to the world. One of the most memorable is Jafar from Aladdin. With style and a unique sense of elegant evil, the beard-twirling villain sought to ...

The Walt Disney Co. is so confident about the success of its upcoming animated feature, The Lion King, that a spinoff video game is already in the works. Helping to develop the game, which if produced ...

Sam Bee gives a group of “fed-the-f***-up female animators” an animated space on Full Frontal to tell their #MeToo stories. “I think #MeToo is waiting to happen in every industry, if you look around,” ...

Masashi Kudo was one of the most well known animators on the series of Bleach, working for Studio Pierrot which was the same animation studio responsible for bringing the tales of the Hidden Leaf ...

Bringing Cell to life in Dragon Ball Z was anything but a "perfect" experience, a famed animator for the series revealed. An inconspicuous feature of this infamous villain caused headaches for the ...

SANTA CLARITA – The California Institute of the Arts was created partly by Walt Disney’s desire to bring more top-flight animators into the profession. And it has during its 47 years, though for a ...

For 82 years, Disney’s in-studio life drawing classes have helped evolve its animated characters. But as increasing reliance on computers lures young animators away from classical drawing, three of ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. "I just step into the paper and now I'm drawing in it." Keane drawing Ariel in 3D. (Future of ...