Using muted colors and grainy textures adds to the retro look. Sketchy outlines give cartoons that hand-drawn feel from old comic strips. Comic book style drawing brings characters to life with ...

Mouse PI For Hire reinterprets the boomer shooter by doubling down on hand-drawn animation and the creative mechanics is ...

The omission of “My Father’s Dragon” from the 2023 Oscar nominations list for best animated feature sparked murmurings of disapproval from within the industry. The Netflix film — directed ...

Danish animator and director Niels Krogh Mortensen is on a mission: to create “the world’s most responsive, intuitive and powerful software for doing one thing, and one thing only: hand-drawn ...

Many early cartoon characters ... have stopped at four fingers simply because it was less work. Traditional, hand-drawn animation was labor-intensive. Adding a fifth finger to every frame would ...

No idea, no cartoon. It’s not that the drawing doesn’t matter; it does, but it’s a bonus. For a “hand” cartoonist, a category in which I place Searle, it’s mostly the other way around.

They are valuable artifacts for a couple of reasons: First, the hand-drawn cartoon was reproduced using what was claimed to be a new process called homeography and then hand-pasted onto the front ...

In the era of hand-drawn animation, having one less digit ... But there are even more factors at play too, like the fact that so many cartoon characters are animals, who we don’t necessarily ...

They viewed black and white cartoons of faces and were asked ... is stored as spatial locations for subsequent eye and hand actions. The drawing process then recreates these spatial features ...