The 2D animation of today isn’t quite like cartoons of the past. With new techniques at their disposal, filmmakers are expanding the visuals they can create to tell rich, compelling stories.

This minor is designed for students who are interested in the fields of 2D animation, interactive art, video, and motion graphics. Required courses are: ART 344 and 413; FILM 215; FVA 120 and 200; and ...

"We love animation," art director Chad Moldenhauer said. "The 32-bit generation came out and we saw higher quality 2D, and then it just faded away.

We spoke to the directors of three of this year’s (mostly) 2d Oscar hopefuls, Titina, Four Souls of Coyote, and Unicorn Wars, about choosing to make a hand-drawn feature in a cg-dominated ...

The puppet Donn is presented as a real person, grounded in the same world as all of our other interview subjects, and the 2d animation works as a visual representation of Donn’s version of events.