Toy Story’s major achievement, much to the chagrin of the people who worked on it, was to kill American two-dimensional ...

‘La Luna’ director Enrico Casarosa and his team looked to 2D animation and hand-drawn techniques to help create the next Pixar film. Luca, Pixar’s newest film, tells the tale of a young sea monster ...

It’s been a long time coming, but Pixar has finally embraced 2D in a feature with the cartoon characters Bloofy and Pouchy from “Inside Out 2” (in theaters June 14). They’re the scene-stealing dog and ...

Pixar had to unlearn some basic animation rules to pull off a more graphic 2D look for a tween and her inner beast, inspired by anime. “I grew up watching anime films as much as Disney and Pixar,” ...

"Luca" ushered in a new trend under Pete Docter of quirky, personal storytelling and more experimental, 2D-inspired stylization. To be sure, director Enrico Casarosa’s coming-of-age story — about two ...