Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics ...

The gig: Animator Hao Li, 34, is an assistant professor of computer science at USC, running a small, newly renovated lab with five graduate students at the university's school of engineering.

The animation arm is 200 employees strong and has a production pipeline that can churn out animated news clips in real time, just like it did of the Woods incident.

Animated movies are just as popular as ever, and thanks to Pixar’s vision the computer-animated movie has been the favored format for over a decade. That’s not to say it’s the best format ...

Features Computer animation and its constant leaps forward Animation never ceases to evolve, seemingly with every new release. But where did it begin, and will it have unintended effects?