1. It showed a 15-minute animation, Pauvre Pierrot, made from 500 hand-painted images. 2. Flip books, showing animation by flipping through the pages of a book, were patented by Birmingham printer ...

On a summer evening in a Paris cinema just eight years after the turn of the 20th century, the very first animated cartoon was shown to the public. The film was Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, a 1 minute ...

In 1908, Émile Cohl's short film Fantasmagorie became the world's first animated cartoon. Before this groundbreaking achievement, stop-motion techniques were used to bring inanimate objects to life.

With shortlist voting starting today, we're revisiting all 39 Oscar-qualified animated short profiles we put together this year. A surprise nomination for ‘Demon Slayer’ reshapes the awards season ...

Peter Rabbit - This character has been a children's favourite ever since appearing in Beatrix Potter's books in 1902. The computer animated cartoon for preschool children reimagines the books and ...

Werner Herzog’s The Twilight World, the German director’s first feature animation and new projects from leading animation directors including Anca Damian, Alain Ughetto, Filip Pošivač, Vincent ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...