The weekly magazine, started in 1925, is using crowdsourcing algorithms for the first time to find the funniest cartoon captions. Scientists see big potential in these jokes. Ben Fox Rubin was a ...

CANNES, France -- Even the snooty Cannes Film Festival loves computer animation, which has become such the rage in Hollywood it has virtually displaced traditional hand-drawn cartoons on studio slates ...

Driving a car is still a few years away, but Steven Canady can go places on a computer. A seventh grader, Canady is a member of the MacroMedia User's Group at Hamilton Middle School in Denver. Boys in ...

Ever fancied becoming a cartoon character? New animation software can turn digital videos into smoothly animated cartoons. Computer scientist Michael Cohen, of Microsoft research in Redmond, ...

The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival announced the award winners in its three competitive categories, as well as the lineup of 24 short films, breakdowns, scientific visualizations, advertisements ...

Ever wonder how the creators of all these applications for iPods, iPads and iPhones got their start? Just ask Chuck Gamble, a native of La Crosse who is selling applications to Apple for the iPhone ...

For the second year in a row, alumni from New York City’s School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Art department have been officially selected for the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film ...

With a photo and a bit of Photoshop magic, even the artistically impaired can create a cartoon. There are a few dozen different ways to create a Photoshop cartoon effect, each with its own unique look ...