If you’ve spent time online, you’ve no doubt heard of Skillshare, a fast-growing online community for learning and teaching creative skills. The e-learning site connects expert practitioners with ...

Don Shane was heartbroken when it was over. For 11 years, he showed tourists step-by-step how to draw their favorite Disney characters at Hollywood Studios’ Animation Academy. “It was my dream job. I ...

Photo by Janelle Patterson Paxton Hudnall-Bolian, 9, of Belpre, moves his characters beneath a suspended camera as he creates a stop-motion animated film at the Belpre Public Library Wednesday. BELPRE ...

Imagine if Kodak founder George Eastman hadn’t just invented film, but had gone on to run MGM in its heyday. Or World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee become the CEO of Facebook. It’s almost too much ...

It’s 10 p.m. Pacific time and Animation School is about to begin. The students take their seats all over the world. There’s Fabian in Switzerland, Susanna in Italy, Gustavo in Spain. Richard and Rafi ...

From family ties to war and peace, animated movies are big on delivering bang for buck when it comes to sharing sage advice. Yet for all those decades of change — which have come to life at the Disney ...

Don't relegate these filmmakers to the kids' table, where the movie industry often forces animators to sit. Not only have their projects scored big at the box office — 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' ...