It’s a leap in terms of both spectacle and emotion, and at the heart of it was a new version of the studio’s flagship animation software — one that’s letting DreamWorks animators do more ...

Studio Ghibli in particular has been using Toonz since 1995, when the animation house needed software to digitally render a sequence in the film. “Our requirement was that in order to continue ...

On the tech side, they wrote new software to attach the sims to the characters. A hand-drawn animation style was also applied to effects so explosions looked more like illustrations. Therefore ...