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Happy 85th Birthday, Richard Williams!

The living animation master turned 85 years old today.

A Disney legend is stepping down after 40 years at the studio.

Pixar’s oldest employee, Luckey played a key role in the early years of the studio’s feature films.

Nathan Greno will create and direct an original animated feature for the fast-rising Skydance.

Creators can learn a lot from how Butch Hartman announced that he’s leaving Nickelodeon.

Warner Bros. Animation shares some photos with us of the big party they threw for this year’s Annie Award nominees.

Happy birthday to the last living animator from the Golden Age of the Walt Disney Company.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson reveals how she became the first woman to solo direct an animated feature.

PBS is celebrating the 75th anniversary of Disney’s “Bambi” with a new documentary about its Chinese-American production designer, Tyrus Wong.

Google is celebrating animation pioneer Oskar Fischinger, whose work paved the way for music videos and motion graphics.

Leo Matsuda, the director of “Inner Workings,” has left Disney to pursue opportunities as a director.

“In the end of the day, you are serving someone else’s story,” director Erick Oh says about working at Pixar.

This doesn’t happen often, but animators Kirsten Lepore and Bill Plympton have been the subject of discussion on recent late-night talk shows.

The iconic Disney animator will be celebrated this spring at the Walt Disney Family Museum.

Four days of animation screenings, filmmaker talks, workshops, installations, and parties are coming to Berkeley, California, next month!

Disney’s Nine Old Men…move over and make room for Nine MORE Old Men!

In honor of his 60th birthday, we present rare insights into storytelling craft from Pixar and Disney chief John Lasseter.

In honor of his 76th birthday, we share a valuable lesson about idea creation from the master filmmaker.

RIP Tyrus Wong.

Oh, what could have been!