CGI anime isn’t always great. When done lazily, it can feel clunky and robotic, like watching video game cutscenes from a decade ago. Expressions can look weirdly flat, and characters might move too ...

Animated by Ufotable, Demon Slayer: The Movie: Infinity Castle amplifies why Demon Slayer remains the visual gold standard for modern shonen anime. Released in Summer 2025, the film grossed over $780 ...

Matthew Magnus Lundeen is a writer, critic, and aspiring cinephile trying way too hard and simultaneously not enough. He writes anime features for Game Rant when he isn't trying to write fiction. CGI ...

A preliminary calendar of animated feature films releasing in 2026, from major studio sequels to original anime, Pixar, ...

Ufotable digs into the technical and artistic magic that propelled the film's generational battle between Tanjiro and Akaza.

Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is set to release in U.S. theaters on Sept. 12, and it carries some massive expectations. The anime franchise rose to prominence thanks to the excellent visual work by ...

Director Haruo Sotozaki, director of photography Yuichi Terao, and Ufotable president Hikaru Kondo discuss the film's massive ...

For 2022’s The Bad Guys, the team at DreamWorks established a hyper-stylized, graphic look that enhanced CG animation with qualities of traditional hand-drawn works. Now in theaters, the sequel ...

Some anime have stories so compelling, characters so layered, and worlds so rich that they deserve the best animation studios Japan has to offer. But not every gem gets the polish it needs. Whether ...