Animation

The Best Animated Movies of 2022

By  Brad Gullickson 

This year’s list features mad gods, shells with shoes on, and the best Shrek movie ever.

Remembering ‘The Last Unicorn’: Rankin/Bass’ Cult Classic

By  Meg Shields 

Rankin AND Bass? In THIS economy?

Why ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Changed Animation

By  Meg Shields 

More like: into the “no-more-photorealism-Verse.”

‘Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank’ is a Blazing Mess

By  Will DiGravio 

The animated children’s film fails to live up to Mel Brooks’ ‘Blazing Saddles,’ on which it was based.

Dynamation Explained: How Ray Harryhausen Integrated Stop-Motion Elements to Live Action

By  Meg Shields 

Patience and artistry strikes again!

All Hail the ‘Mad God’

By  Meg Shields 

Go to Hell … with Phil Tippett.

In Praise of ‘Wade’: The Brutal Animated Climate Change Horror Short

By  Meg Shields 

Climate change, tigers, and the apocalypse, oh my!

How Studio Laika Seeds Their Stories with Invisible Labor

By  Meg Shields 

Ah yes, the unseen magical realm to just-out-of-frame animators pipeline.

How ‘The Wolf House’ Uses Fantasy to Confront the Horrors of History

By  Meg Shields 

Warren Zevon be like “awoooo wolf houses of historical trauma.”