“The Lion King” is Disney’s latest effort in its quest to remake many of its animated classics. Sure, Beyoncé sings — but what is new is this film’s striking CGI animation style.

Benoît Chieux, who won the audience award at the Annecy Animation Film Festival for Sirocco and the Kingdom of Air, talks CGI and AI in an interview.

The good “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (1991) This is an older movie and CGI was still in its relative infancy in 1991, but the animation for T-1000 absolutely blew my mind when I saw ...

A team of animators has hacked Microsoft's Kinect sensor suite to create a motion-replication system that powers CGI characters. Remember Gollum in Lord of The Rings? Yup--kinda like that. (But ...