When it came to animated movies in 2025, the key takeaway was that franchise films were safe bets, while animated originals – at least theatrically – were potential minefields. This can be summed up ...

In the early 1900s, sometime between the end of World War I and the start of WWII, a bunch of surrealist artists got together and invented a game. In Exquisite Corpse, a small group works together to ...

Rachel Shatto, Editor-in-chief of PRIDE.com, is an SF Bay Area-based writer, podcaster, and former editor of Curve magazine, where she honed her passion for writing about social justice and sex (and ...

Get started with Java streams, including how to create streams from Java collections, the mechanics of a stream pipeline, examples of functional programming with Java streams, and more. You can think ...

EXCLUSIVE: Smiling Friends creators Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel and producer Aron Fromm have teamed to launch Zam Studios, a new Los Angeles-based independent animation studio. Zam will focus on ...

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...

Entertainment and media companies are increasingly exploring generative AI, and the animation industry is grappling with divisive questions of how to integrate AI-powered tools into the creative ...

Stop motion animation (also called stop frame animation) is a cinematic and creative technique that breathes life into physical objects through sequential photography. Objects are manipulated in tiny ...

What if you could bring your wildest creative visions to life with just a few strokes of a pen? Imagine sketching a simple arrow or symbol on an image and watching it transform into a dynamic, ...