July 31, New York, NY—School of Visual Arts President David Rhodes has announced the appointment of James (Jimmy) Calhoun as chair of the College’s BFA Computer Art Computer Animation and Visual ...

Ken Knowlton, artist and computer animation pioneer, died on June 16 at a hospice facility in Sarasota, Florida. According to his son, Rick Knowlton, the cause of death was unclear. Knowlton was an ...

The School of Visual Arts’ animation departments — BFA Animation; BFA Computer Art, Computer Animation, and Visual Effects; and MFA Computer Arts — have an amazing and diverse group of alumni that ...

Welcome to Season 2 of Animation Club's On A Tangent podcast! Kicking off the season is an interview with Jun Zee Myers, 3D animator and SVA 2004 alum. During this episode, Zee shares her long career ...

CodeMiko on what it takes to be a virtual streamer, the role of anonymity and how she connects with her community.

In 1964, only one mainframe computer existed on Ohio State’s campus. Alongside processors, chords and drum plotters, the computer sat in its own room. It was in a space typically occupied by engineers ...

A badge of honor, to many people, would be an award or merit of some type. But not to cartoonist Ed Seeman. Musician Frank Zappa called Seeman “a freak,” when referring to him during a cough drop ...

Three decades later, “Toy Story” remains a touchstone not only for its technical brilliance, but for what it says about childhood, creativity, and growing up.

Back in the 1980s, Stephen Spielberg launched “Amazing Stories,” a science fiction/fantasy anthology series in the “Twilight Zone” tradition. The show’s intro featured a Neolithic storyteller ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. Early in her career, Vera Molnár made paintings that might be ...

Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped pioneer the science and art of computer graphics and made many of the first computer-generated pictures, portraits and movies, died ...