Played occasionally in real life by his wife’s cat Chip, Alfie gets a deeply unconvincing computer-animated close-up in the trailer. All of the flaws of animated cats get worse when they’re ...

The mathematicians utilized a Soviet mainframe computer—BESM-4—to produce the images. The machine runs a program that solves the differential equations governing the animated cat’s movements.

Cat in the Hat, considered one of the most popular children's books of all-time, was first published in 1957. It tells the story of a young boy and his sister, who let a mischievous cat into their ...

For decades, two-dimensional animation was the only game in town. Computer-generated graphics (CGI) were in their experimental phase throughout the 1980s but exploded in the following decade.

Secondly, it was the first film to use computer animation. The opening sequence, a continuous spiraling effect, was achieved by using an 850-lb WWII anti-aircraft targeting computer to record ...