American Songwriter

4 Classic Hits From the 1980s That Were Boosted by Groundbreaking Animated Videos

Everybody loves a good cartoon, right? Well, as it turns out, the rock and pop stars of the 80s also saw the value of videos and animation. Once they realized that videos could be more than simply ...
Cartoon Brew

Computer Animation Before ‘Toy Story’: The Wild, Brilliant Experiments That Built CGI Animation

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the John Lasseter film Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, we’re taking a look at early CGI milestones in the days before Toy Story. But ...
Yahoo

From Akira to Disney's The Little Mermaid, here's how the 1980s changed animation forever.

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Comicbook.com

5 Great 1980s Animated Movies Not Enough People Remember

Ralph Bakshi built Fire and Ice from a direct collaboration with fantasy illustrator Frank Frazetta, whose painted images of muscular barbarians and volcanic landscapes had defined sword-and-sorcery ...
insider.si.edu

A new history of animation / Maureen Furniss

Part 1. Origins of animation -- Chapter 1. Setting the scene for animation. Early innovations in simulating movement ; The printing press and comic strips ; The impact of photography on studies of ...