John Whitney Sr. was a pioneer of computer animation who built an analog computer/film camera hybrid out of an old World War II anti-aircraft gun sight in the early 1960s.

Debora Wood, curator of the Block Museum’s exhibition Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print, will introduce this program of short films that explores the development of ...

They’re still fun to watch, and show how quickly computer animation evolved in its early days. Here are a few cartoons that PDI made back when it was helping to establish computer animation as ...

Art & Exhibitions Revisit the Dawn of the Digital Age Through These 9 Key Works From LACMA’s Exhibition on Early Computer Art "Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age" traces the how technological ...

Ed Catmull, the Pixar Animation Studios co-founder who helped pioneer the computer-animation industry and led Walt Disney Co.’s animation business to its contemporary renaissance, is retiring.