Hayao Miyazaki discusses the symbolism behind Spirited Away's enigmatic character No-Face, 25 years after the film's release.

In Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers, a research team affiliated with UNIST reports a new AI technology ...

It's hard balancing games already. When you start adding superpowers, and then multiple people who can copy or absorb other ...

Baby Long Legs recalls a haunting memory from his past and is determined to change himself into a human! With the help of Player, Huggy Wuggy, and Poppy Baby Long Legs sets out to make that dream come ...

Pedro Conti is a São Paulo–based director, production designer and 3D visual development artist whose animation work is shaped by the rhythm of city life. Growing up in Brazil’s largest metropolis ...

While massive global brands like Coca-Cola and McDonald's resort to AI for their Christmas ads, a French supermarket chain has just demonstrated the power and value of human-made animation. Some ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new University of Cambridge study that includes a table ranking ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

For far too long, animation has been viewed as inferior to live-action, largely because it remains associated with children and their supposedly simple needs and desires as viewers. Over the years, ...