Cross-platform development: React Native 0.85 gets new animation backend

The open-source framework introduces an experimental animation backend and outsources the Jest testing framework into its own ...
Analytics Insight

Flutter vs React Native 2026: Which Framework Leads App Development?

Overview:Flutter delivers stronger UI control and smoother performance for design-heavy applications across platforms ...
The Caledonian-Record

Animation Fest Returning To VSU Lyndon April 17-18

The Vermont Animation Festival is back, offering a weekend of animation workshops for adults and children at Vermont State University Lyndon, April 17th and 18th. Space is limited ...
The Daily Dot

Newgrounds Roulette shuffles through the iconic (and sometimes forgotten) Flash animations of the early internet

A fun new website is bringing our nostalgia for Flash videos to the forefront by shuffling through classic Newgrounds animations. Although it originated in the 1990s, Newgrounds hit its stride in the ...
Wall Street Journal

Inside a Legendary Animation Studio’s Race to Save Its Clay

For decades, the animators behind “Chicken Run” and “Wallace & Gromit” have used a very specific type of clay. It’s pliable enough to reshape for months, but firm enough not to melt or crack under ...
collider

8 Animated Movies That Redefined Modern Animation

Lucas Kloberdanz-Dyck is a writer for Collider. He grew up creating lists, stories, and worlds, which led to his love of anime and video games. He attended Sheridan College where he earned an Honours ...
TravelPulse

Disney World Announces New Animation-Themed Area for Hollywood Studios

Walt Disney World Resort is sharing more details about what’s coming to The Magic of Disney Animation experience at Disney’s Hollywood Studios when it opens in late summer, with updates centering on ...
TechCrunch

Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing

On Monday, creative suite maker Canva announced the dual acquisition of startups Cavalry, which works on animation, and MangoAI, which works on improving ad performance. U.K.-based Cavalry works on 2D ...
Ars Technica

User blowback convinces Adobe to keep supporting 30-year-old 2D animation app

Adobe has canceled plans to discontinue its 2D animation software Animate. On Monday, Adobe announced that it would stop allowing people to sell subscriptions to Animate on March 1, saying the ...
The Verge

Adobe Animate is shutting down next month

The 2D animation app will no longer be available for purchase after March 1st, while existing users have one year to download their files. The 2D animation app will no longer be available for purchase ...
Cartoon Brew

Bonne Animation Launches As A Human-Focused, CalArts-Bred Studio With A Global Footprint (EXCLUSIVE)

In an animation industry that increasingly feels overrun by consolidation, studio aversion to taking risks, and the proliferation of soulless automation, indie artists are launching their own studios ...