Developer ExoGenesis Studios has announced hand-animated 2D action-platformer, INAYAH: Life After Gods, for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via ...

It may be time for Disney to return to 2D animation and there are great reasons for it! There's been a long debate among Disney fans about whether the company should go back to traditional hand-drawn ...

In 1908, Émile Cohl released the short film Fantasmagorie, widely regarded as the world's first animated cartoon. From these humble beginnings, cartoons blew up into detailed theatre shorts by the ...

As the nominees for the animated feature Oscar were unveiled this year, one thing was clear: 2D and 2D-influenced animated films are dominating awards season. Among this year’s nominees, “The Boy and ...

How sad and ironic: A week after the wonderful “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” 25th anniversary celebration at the Academy, Disney lays off some key hand-drawn 2D animation vets as part of its studio-wide ...

INAYAH - Life After Gods is a brand new game from fresh development company, ExoGenesis Studios. In this Shacknews-exclusive trailer, we get to see the titular Inayah fighting brutal bosses, ...

“It was incredibly liberating for us,” co-creator Hugh Welchman says of the more epic and immersive follow-up to ‘Loving Vincent,’ based on Władysław Reymont’s Nobel Prize-winning literary work. By ...

For 2022’s The Bad Guys, the team at DreamWorks established a hyper-stylized, graphic look that enhanced CG animation with qualities of traditional hand-drawn works. Now in theaters, the sequel ...

With “Wish,” Disney Animation celebrates its 100th anniversary by merging the 2D legacy of watercolor background paintings (dating back to “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”) with cutting-edge CG. The ...

Thirty-three films were submitted in this year’s contest for the best animated feature Academy Award. That’s a record-braking figure, but equally notable is the strong showing by 2d animated films in ...

Walt Disney Animation might have gotten its start in the world of 2D animation, but for more than a decade now, it's transitioned almost exclusively to 3D animation. It’s a move that made sense at the ...