Another Seuss

Dr. Seuss has achieved what few artists have: his sixty-one children’s books, from And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street (1938) to Oh, The Places You’ll Go! (1990) have captivated millions of children’s hearts—and their parents’ too. Dr. Seuss’s characters are...

3D piracy

Right after watching the trailer for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” last April, Ken Landrum began building his own Stormtrooper gun. From his home in St. Louis, he cobbled together images of the “blaster” featured in the ad, and then used software on his personal...

Goodbye Flash

Flash, the popular software from Adobe Systems Inc., once brought Web to life, endowing pages formerly occupied by static text and photos with video clips and animated cartoons. Last week the program, criticized for years as a security risk and a drag on online...

Bad CGI

Sometimes, Hollywood creates breathtakingly deft CGI magic. And sometimes, Hollywood creates a CGI shark that looks like a plastic bath toy. C’est la vie. To immortalize the most WTF moments in CGI history, World Wide Interweb compiled a super-cut of the worst...

Pixar science

It’s been 20 years since the release of Toy Story—the world’s first computer-animated feature film—put Pixar Animation Studios on the map. Since then, the company has created some of the most successful films of all time, including A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Toy Story...