Hype, an application for creating HTML5 animations, has been launched by Y Combinator-funded company Tumult Inc. Hype uses a keyframe animation system, much like Flash, and allows users to record ...

Learn the basics of stop-motion animation through Animation-ish’s clever three-level process. Animation-ish ($60, free demo) is a very simple, intuitive, sensibly progressive tool to learn stop-frame ...

To bring animated movies to life, production studios must assemble hundreds of animators and equip them with state-of-the-art tools—requiring months of set-up and huge capital investment. SummuS ...

A new entrant in the field of cloud-based animation platforms is setting its sights on the emerging market inhabited by players such as Artella, Nimble Collective, and Foundry’s Elara. Simple ...

Animation is a great way to communicate complicated scientific concepts. It’s less ambiguous than illustration when showing how processes occur, and is better at displaying 3D structures. Animation is ...

You probably get that motion capture involves performers prancing around in tights that have ping-pong balls attached. But what the heck is going on, exactly? Simple: The producers of a game or film ...

Researchers have developed a computer model that can translate text describing physical movements directly into simple computer-generated animations, a first step toward someday generating movies ...

Pretty much since it was announced HTML5 has been touted by many pundits as signaling the death of Adobe’s Flash. Whether or not that eventuates, only time will tell but a tool being developed by ...

The best thing about PowerPoint is the animation. Building motion into slideshows makes them come alive like no static images could ever hope to do. It’s going to get even more interesting when ...