42 stories tagged animation, newest first.
157 points by embedding-shape | 67 comments
Walt Disney Animation Studios page explaining its filmmaking process, breaking down Zootopia 2 into sequences, shots, and frames across departments.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: How gyroscopes got so small [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/16/17655563-d880-4907-8113-2d2abab86bcd.jpg)
74 points by surprisetalk | 34 comments
A Primal Space YouTube video explaining the history and engineering of how gyroscopes were miniaturized, starting from a 1914 Paris aviation demonstration.
51 points by vinhnx | 6 comments
An Animation Obsessive newsletter article about an unmade film project that influenced Hayao Miyazaki's career, plus animation news bits.
49 points by kaganin | 13 comments
A visual archive of 160+ open source sound visualization experiments across 25+ categories, including waveform animations, spectrum patterns, matrix displays and particles.
426 points by turrini | 72 comments
ascii.rest is a gallery of 191 animated ASCII art pieces for web pages, including scenes, 3D shapes, loaders, charts, language logos and Linux distro logos.
239 points by rdmuser | 31 comments
Film Stories news article reporting that a digital archive of animation materials from Tippett Studio appeared online after the studio's closure.
430 points by azhenley | 126 comments
Newgrounds homepage, a community site for games, music, and art, shown here behind a Spooktober-themed bot-check/security interstitial.
3 points by makic | 0 comments
A Nox Lune World listicle about ten Cartoon Network episodes that were darker than viewers remember.
129 points by CharlesW | 24 comments
Animation Obsessive newsletter article explaining the visual design and background art style of the classic Looney Tunes short 'What's Opera, Doc?', plus animation news.
643 points by helloplanets | 76 comments
A website presenting animated versions of the illustrations from Henry T. Brown's 1868 book 507 Mechanical Movements, showing belts, pulleys and other mechanisms.
983 points by krtkush | 114 comments
Floor796 is an ever-expanding interactive animated artwork depicting a huge space station floor filled with pop-culture references; the screenshot shows tiles still loading.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/12/11/9cc0f80b-1d40-4bc7-a963-6412379a89c4.jpg)
412 points by gbugniot | 226 comments
YouTube video of Intermarché's 'Conte de Noël' Christmas advert from the French supermarket chain.
957 points by FrostKiwi | 309 comments
Blender.org release page for Blender 5.0, the open-source 3D creation suite; the captured page shows only the site header with no content loaded.
1075 points by ani_obsessive | 303 comments
An Animation Obsessive newsletter post about how the original Toy Story looked when it was printed to film versus later digital versions, plus animation news.
354 points by ani_obsessive | 133 comments
Animation Obsessive newsletter post telling the story of stick-figure fight animations made in Flash, plus animation news.
343 points by skrebbel | 154 comments
An It's Nice That feature in which Bluey art director Catriona Drummond explains how the cartoon's background scenery and world were designed.
420 points by cantdutchthis | 104 comments
Blog post on koaning.io showing how animated SVGs of terminal sessions can replace GIFs with small file sizes and high resolution.
477 points by ani_obsessive | 82 comments
An Animation Obsessive newsletter post examining the visual design and background art of the animated series Samurai Jack, plus animation news.
331 points by marcodiego | 159 comments
Homepage for Lottie, an open-source vector graphics animation file format originally created in 2015 for exporting and playing back Adobe After Effects animations.
525 points by fmerian | 94 comments
A blog post with tutorials and JSX code examples for creating visual effects with SVG, starting with animated wires built from line and path elements.
812 points by adrianvoica | 122 comments
Homepage of Anime.js, a fast and versatile JavaScript animation engine library, announcing version 4.
705 points by babuloseo | 234 comments
Blender 4.4 release page highlighting improved animation workflow, modeling, a new sculpt brush, smoother video editing, and over 700 bug fixes.
326 points by adrian_mrd | 278 comments
Hollywood Reporter feature on how the Australian animated children's show Bluey grew into a global entertainment juggernaut.
694 points by boguscoder | 126 comments
Reuters news report that the animated film 'Flow', made using Blender, won the Oscar for best animated feature in 2025.
443 points by LordNibbler | 37 comments
Daniel Hooper's blog post explaining how he programmed an SDF animation of Rick from Rick and Morty in 240 lines of code, with an embedded live coding editor.
362 points by ryeguy_24 | 39 comments
An animated GIF of a spiral Christmas tree made of colored particles, generated in Mathematica from the parametric curve t·sin(t).
693 points by Bluestein | 85 comments
Interactive Tetris Font by Erik and Martin Demaine that renders entered text as animated falling Tetris pieces, with GIF and SVG download options.
559 points by gaws | 83 comments
A blog post by Andrei Ciobanu giving an animated, visual introduction to Fourier series, starting from circles and building up to epicycles; part 1 of a series.
468 points by gtirloni | 63 comments
Floor796 is an interactive, ever-expanding animated isometric pixel-art scene of a futuristic space station floor, shown here with tiles still loading.
385 points by rrampage | 110 comments
Rive blog post announcing that the Rive Renderer, a real-time vector graphics renderer, is now open source and available on all platforms.
590 points by atan2 | 330 comments
Blog post explaining exponential smoothing as an animation technique for cameras, UI elements, and audio, with interactive examples and the underlying math.
439 points by ggrelet | 56 comments
A web page showing randomly generated looping generative art animations, here a sphere made of dotted particle spheres and spirals on black.
336 points by mfiguiere | 257 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Pixar will undergo layoffs in 2024 as Disney pushes toward streaming profitability.
608 points by TangerineDream | 198 comments
Blender developer wiki page for the Blender 4.0 release notes (released November 14, 2023), listing sections like animation, geometry nodes, modeling, and sculpting.
642 points by qwertyforce | 55 comments
Animated AI is a site of 3D animations and instructional videos explaining neural network concepts, starting with the basic convolution algorithm.
361 points by rbanffy | 123 comments
IEEE Spectrum news article on how Disney combined animation techniques and reinforcement learning to create an expressive, free-roaming bipedal robot.
368 points by petecooper | 133 comments
Product page for Procreate Dreams, Procreate's animation app for iPad.
369 points by ingve | 108 comments
A personal blog post recounting a search for the original 60×60 pixel Netscape Navigator "meteors" throbber animation.
376 points by colinprince | 92 comments
The Free Movie is a collaborative web project where visitors draw frames for a crowdsourced movie; the capture shows a 'device too small' notice asking to expand the browser height.
497 points by doodlesdev | 116 comments
Homepage of Anime.js, a lightweight JavaScript library for animating CSS properties, SVG, DOM attributes and JavaScript objects.
813 points by jonbaer | 72 comments
Project homepage for Animated Drawings, Meta FAIR's tool and paper implementation for automatically animating children's drawings of human figures.
977 points by justsomehnguy | 103 comments
Floor796, an interactive, continually expanding pixel-art animation depicting life on the 796th floor of a space station, filled with pop-culture references.