Pixar Sequel 'Finding Dory' Announced. Set For Release November 2015

Pixar has announced a sequel to 2003's Oscar-winning Finding Nemo. Titled Finding Dory it is set to hit cinemas on November 2015, and shifts focus onto the hilarious Blue Tang Fish supporting character with severe memory impairment.

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'Monsterous Murders.' A Stop-Motion Short with Real Potential

Sarah Davidson and Sarah Duffield-Harding from the University for the Creative Arts have been developing stop-motion animation for a number of years. Their projects have been relatively low budget, and have taken time and dedication for them to complete. At the moment they are currently looking to complete one of their largest works yet: Monsterous Murders.

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'Paperman.' This Oscar-Winning Disney Short Will Change The Way We See Animation

Disney’s Paperman won Best Short Animation at the Oscars last week (and many would say deservingly so), but how is this animation different to the ones before it? The trick, it seems, is to start looking back to the basics.

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The History Of Animated GIFs

Ever wandered where the craze began that led to animated images of Nigel Thornberry as Disney princesses in your Tumblr feed?  Look no further than the Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium, a rather in-depth and hugely informative six and a half minutes of the history behind some of the strangest imagery on the internet.

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Graphics researchers discover the secret behind rainbows

What started as a research project into improving the amount of finite detail that goes into CGI film and video game backgrounds, turned into a discovery about the physics of rainbows and how they are formed.

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Martin says its jetpack is practical. Proven with poorly rendered animation

So Jetpacks, for all their impressive prestige for Nazi combat and general procrastination, they haven't been seen within the wider public agenda than the tech followers (people beyond we enthusiastic readers) as applicable to other situations.  But Martin wants you to know about that they're actually useful.

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Google X meets Taiwanese animation [VIDEO]

Courtesy of NMA.tv, Google's secret laboratory, known as "Google X" received the animated treatment for all to see.

As has been the standard of these Taiwanese news animators a general grasp of original New York Times story is maintained, while delving into specific details a little too (whimsically) much, using robots, aliens, and a space elevator.

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