This month, The Verge is bringing you a new way to look at the future. We call it The Big Question, an animated video series devoted to the most important questions of humanity’s future. Think of it ...

British animation legend Bob Godfrey (1921-2013) answers the question “What Is Animation?” in this short film directed by Martin Pickles. Pickles was inspired to become a full-time animator and to ...

Animator Genndy Tartakovsky answers the internet's burning questions about animation and cartooning. Why are there so many cartoon characters that don't wear pants? Why are Genny's Clone Wars episodes ...

The tagline for Disney’s upcoming “Enchanted” could well be the motto for the latest push in animation: “The real world and the animated world collide.” The tagline for Disney’s upcoming “Enchanted” ...

Animated films and television shows can seem like magic, in how they manage to bring life -- or, more specifically, motion-- to 2-D art. How exactly does that work, though? We reached out to Stephen ...

You remember Forky, right? In Toy Story 4, Bonnie made him from a discarded spork, mismatched googly eyes and some fuzzy pipe cleaners. He wasn’t like the other toys, but they accepted him yesterday.