Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to bring characters like Mickey Mouse and Luke Skywalker to the AI company's Sora ...

The deal is a watershed for Hollywood, which has been trying to sort through the possible harms and upsides of generative ...

Sora allows users to generate video sequences by typing descriptive text prompts. Under the new Disney agreement, users will gain legitimate access to more than 200 ...

This San Francisco-based graphics artist uses this new technology to see how famous paintings and cartoon characters would ...

From The Lion King to Spirited Away, these animated films were groundbreaking and have become essential classics.

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the John Lasseter film Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, we’re taking a look at early CGI milestones in the days before Toy Story. But ...

When Macy’s first introduced a helium-filled character balloon into the Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1927, people watching from the sidewalks of New York didn’t quite know what they were looking at.

It's a warm fall afternoon at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, and a gentle breeze blows through the meticulously landscaped trees lining the walkways. On one end of the campus, a ray of ...

It's a warm fall afternoon at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. A gentle breeze blows through the meticulously ...

Bugs Bunny, Bart Simpson, and Betty Boop have long since been ingrained into the fabric of pop culture, becoming some of the most recognizable animated characters in history. However, since the turn ...

Once upon a time, “Woody Woodpecker” was a hugely popular cartoon series, but you don’t see it much these days. It apparently still has a following in Brazil. At least that’s what I gleaned from ...

Melanie Walsh is an assistant professor in the Information School and an adjunct assistant professor in the English department at the University of Washington. She uses data to analyze contemporary ...