All the Moos That's Fit to Print
By Bob Miller
The
Barnyard press junket experience.
Animation Festival 101
By Patrick Smith
What makes the animation festival unique?
Animation in the Middle Kingdom
By Noel Vera
A look at exemplars from sixty-plus years of Chinese animation.
Animation's Dirty Little Secret? 
By David Thrasher
Rotoscoping, when used as a learning tool, can enhance traditional freehand animation.
Anime Iconography
By Jeff Boman and Jennifer Wand
Decoding Japanese animation's visual shortcuts.
The Anime Lexicon
By Jennifer Wand, Marc Hairston and Emru Townsend
This guide will help you make sense of what you read and hear about anime.
The Anime Primer
By Jennifer Wand
Here's a starter guide to Japan's most prominent cultural export.
Barnyard: Anatomy of a Junket
Photographs by Bob Miller
Photos from the Barnyard press junket and movie premiere.
Bewitched by Magical Girls
By Melissa Johnson
Like "giant robot," "magical girl" is a genre description that gets right to the point. But where did the genre begin, and why is it so popular?
A Boy and His Robot
By Emru Townsend
The apex of the OAV format was arguably reached by one title in 1992:
Giant Robo.
A Brief and Personal Reminiscence
By Richard Pini
The trials and tribulations of making an
ElfQuest animated series.
Clerks: The Animated Series
By Marc Elias
Appropriate for this self-aware, post-modern age, Kevin Smith and his team are well-versed in the conventions that make up our culture's narratives.
The Coolest Thing Right Now
By Shuzo John Shiota
Seeing through the anime hype.
Dream On Silly Dreamer
By Jake Friedman
Director Dan Lund and producer Tony West tell how the controversial documentary came to be.
The Hip List: Essential Anime
Twelve of our contributors list what they consider to be essential anime.
The Hip List: Sexiest Characters in Animation
Who are animation's sexiest characters? Six of our contributors weigh in.
Flipping Pages: Learning Animation Through Books
By René Walling
A primer on the best way to learn animation through books.
Gargoyles
By Emru Townsend
Walt Disney Television Animation boldly goes into action/adventure.
Hey, Aren't They Related?
By Madeline Ashby
Incest can be depicted in anime as a violation, or a sharing, or something too ambiguous to firmly categorize.
Spotlight: George Davis
By Noell Wolfgram Evans
George Davis picked an odd time to get into animation.
Girl on Boys on Boys
By Cynthia Ward
Why women like yaoi and shounen ai anime.
Growing Pains
By Mark Mayerson
One of Canada's premier animation institutions is evolving, but there are some rough patches.
How Swede It Is
By Gunnar Strøm
A tour of Scandinavian documentary animation.
How to Submit Your Film to Festivals
By André R. Coutu
If you're new to the film festival world, the entry process can be time-consuming and sometimes confusing. These steps will help simplify the process.
Improving Your Animation in Five Easy Lessons
By William Joel
Are you making your own animation? Here are five pointers that can make all the difference.
An Introduction to Hentai
By Jonathan Moy
In the West, the Japanese word "hentai" has been adapted to refer to sexually explicit anime or manga—essentially, Japanese animated pornography.
J.R. Bray: Documentarian?
By Noell Wolfgram Evans
The case for the animation pioneer as one of the first documentary animation producers.
Korean Animation: A Fairy Tale Come True
By John A. Lent
Korea has been an important animation country for more than 30 years, mainly as an overseas producer for North American, European, and Japanese studios. Now it's coming into its own.
