The last 50 years has seen the release of many beautifully crafted animated masterpieces, including Toy Story, The Lion King, and The Iron Giant.

Every industry has its own version of the Nobel Prize. Film has the Oscars, the internet has the Webby Awards, music has the AMAs. Computing machinery, meanwhile, has The Turing Award, and that's just ...

With 25 years of hindsight, Jurassic Park marks a pivotal point in the history of visual effects in film. It came 11 years after 1982’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan debuted computer-generated ...

When asked about the first fully computer-animated feature film made for the big screen, the 1994 cult classic The Lion King often comes to mind. But that’s not quite accurate. While it’s true that ...

"The graphics which appear in this volume were executed with the help of mechanical drawing apparatus --a still classic procedure. They date from spring 1972 and correspond to contemporary computer ...