Truly, it’s hard to overstate just how disrupting the emergence of CG was to traditionally-trained animators like Blaise.

When animator Stefan Gruber was eight, they saw a dog run across a wall, not in real life, but in Jules Engel’s hand-drawn short “Accident,” projected during a Pioneer Square art walk. That was the ...

Studio Ghibli’s world is built on rules that seem almost impossible in modern animation. While much of the industry has raced toward larger teams, algorithmic workflows, and digital shortcuts, some of ...