Robots can hate their dead-end jobs in the CG comedy short "Shelved"

What do Clerks and The Office have common? Not much, but if they were combined and both starred robots, the result would be a lot like "Shelved," this CG comedy short directed by James Cunningham of Auckland's Media Design School and animated by 11 of its students. It's kind of satisfying to know robots are just as…

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For some reason, the Grinch is getting another movie—this time in CG

After the rage-inducing financial success of The Lorax, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures is apparently on a mission to ensure that Dr. Seuss' most popular books all know the touch of CG. The next Seussian project on their slate is another remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Mr. Grinch's…

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Voyager 1 outlives the magnificent death of the sun in this…

Production studio PostPanic and director Mischa Rozema crafted this gorgeous bit of artificial space porn, Stardust, in memory of graphic designer Arjan Groot, who passed away in 2011. It envisions the journey of Voyager 1 as it moves ever farther from our sun and continues well beyond the lifespan of humanity.

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This short cartoon about the cuddliest demon summoning deserves a run…

If only more animation studios prefaced their feature films with short cartoons, we might get more fun romps like The Colors of Evil. In this film, which Phillip Simon and Alyse Miller created as their thesis project at Ringling College of Art and Design, a wicked little girl summons a demon to deal with her…

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Samurai Jack creator explains how Hotel Transylvania will return…

Dexter's Laborator and Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky is making the leap from 2D animated television to 3D animated features with Hotel Transylvania, his tale of a vampire-run hotel that provides monsters refuge from the dangers of humanity. At his San Diego Comic-Con panel, Tartakovsky talked about his…

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See the first image from Dreamworks' CG Mr. Peabody and Sherman

Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Rocky and Bullwinkle's time-traveling dog and his boy, are headed for the big screen in a new Dreamworks CG movie. Here's the first image of the reunited pair in computer-generated 3D.

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The Cat in the Hat comes back to the big screen, this time in CG

What do you do when your Dr. Seuss adaptation makes a ton of dough at the box office? Make another one! Universal is wasting no time in lining up the next big-screen Seussfest, but this time they're going with a property they've already demolished: The Cat and the Hat.

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CG Iron Man picture taunts us with dreams of a Pixar Avengers movie

Digital artist Victor Hugo (as far as I can tell, his real name) created this fantastic 3D image of Tony Stark hanging out in his lab. Now that Disney has its white-gloved fingers in both Marvel and Pixar, we have to ask: How isn't this already a movie?

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Computer-generated architecture creates an eerily photorealistic…

Computer-generated people and animals may still fall into the uncanny valley, but some CG architectural renderings are just plain uncanny, leading you through a version of a familiar city that never really existed. In Megalomania, we get a tour of an empty and decaying London.

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