It eventually started looking like a pretty impressive 2D film. But then the animators went one step further to create a film that looked like this. Suddenly the characters looked three-dimensional.

From The Mitchells vs. the Machines to Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, these are the best animated movies of 2020 so far.

This year, the nominees make full use of the medium. There are shorts in stop motion, employing papier-mâché, clay, and felt; along with a pivot back to hand-drawn 2D movies on painted backgrounds.

With “Wolfwalkers” — the final installment of the studio’s informal trilogy of films about Irish folklore — Cartoon Saloon has realized its true potential at last. Far and away the best ...

This fun, 2D animated short film is made by a Dutch filmmaker named Nigel Lievaart as his graduation project at Utrecht School of the Arts in 2018. He now works at a studio called KLOMP! in the ...

And the lushly imaginative 2D animation that brought those stories to life was rich in a cultural history of its own. Read more Indiewire: Introducing ‘Deep Dive’: Damon Lindelof and His Team ...

The 2d family comedy, which played in competition at Annecy Festival, will be released in French theaters on October 21. In the meantime, the first trailer and posters have dropped.