The best animation styles offer powerfully effective ways to tell stories that captivate audiences, whether it's for ...

Studio Ghibli’s hand-drawn animation proves that in the era of CGI, timeless art and heartfelt stories never go out of style.

These days, however, the vast majority of animated films are CGI — computer-generated imagery — and traditional modes of hand-drawn animation are far and few between. While hand-drawn ...

With a “To infinity … and beyond!” Toy Story captured the hearts of kids and adults alike when it reached theaters in 1995.

In an age where digital effects and computer-generated imagery (CGI) dominate the world of animation, it’s easy to overlook the hand-drawn, frame-by-frame techniques that once defined the medium.

It’s not every day an animated movie emerges from Pakistan — and if it’s feature length, 2D hand-drawn animation, that’s virtually unheard of coming from this region of South Asia.

Following is the transcript of the video. Narrator: This is 2D hand-drawn animation. [horns toot] And this is 3D computer-generated animation. But many films actually fall somewhere in between ...