Animation history

A master of expressiveness in his characters, John Lounsbery was one of Disney's Nine Old Men - the formative animators that helped define the craft.

More than 150 years before Buzzfeed uploaded its first cat GIF, people were already captivated by looping animations. Here's what they looked like.

This charming 3-minute animated journey through four ancient Chinese paintings is a lesson in experiencing art and life; it called to mind Kerri Smith's How to Be an Explorer of the World....

(Hollywood, CA, US; 1938-11; photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt; LIFE collection)

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Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi are all considered Disney classics—but they would never have been made without the tireless work of many young women.

Flip-book animation science project: Investigate the perception of apparent motion by making flip-book animations.

Animation continues to evolve in ways we probably never imagined. Now what are those big moments that have led to where we are today?

After a construction site for the new Crossrail system unearthed a bounty of artifacts from London's very hearty past, the video team at National