With the surprise snub of a front-runner and five nominees featuring dragons, trolls, robots and mythical creatures, the Oscar for best animated film may deliver the most exciting race this year.

Aside from the obvious appeal here—watching silly software robots run into things and fall on their faces—this sort of technology could prove extremely valuable in the animation of actual ...

Shawn Wang’s recently completed short film Planet Unknown looks a bit like WALL-E. It features a pair of rovers sent to a planet to see if it can harbor life, and as they set out to complete ...

“Animation Is the Most Timeless Kind of Storytelling”: ‘Moana 2,’ ‘The Wild Robot’ and the Animation Roundtable Six directors behind some of the most acclaimed animated films of the ...