Researchers developed new algorithms for animating coiled hair, enabling more realistic and diverse depictions of Afro-textured hair that could greatly advance the animation of Black characters in ...

Earlier this year, a heartfelt short film about an African American father who has to endure the (arduous and terrifying) task of doing his young daughter’s hair for the first time captured the ...

If you are heading to the movies to see The Angry Birds Movie 2, then you are in for a double treat. Playing before that feature is an animated short called Hair Love. Conceived and directed by ...

When Lion Forge Animation’s debut film “Hair Love” from director Matthew Cherry won the Oscar for Best Animated Short last year, it marked a watershed moment for the studio and for racially diverse ...

Following his Oscar win for the groundbreaking animated short film Hair Love, filmmaker Matthew A. Cherry is continuing to push representation forward within the genre and expand the Hair Love ...

The animation industry has long struggled to get Black hair right — from the infamous “Killmonger locs,” named after the Black Panther character and copied across video games, to the stiff, oversized ...

EXCLUSIVE: With directing gigs on Big 4 shows like Whiskey Cavalier and The Red Line, Matthew A. Cherry has a pretty full dance card this year, but the BlacKkKlansman executive producer is heading ...

Disney characters like Moana and Princess Tiana made strides in bringing representation to animated films by showcasing women of color with curly, coiled hair. Now, animators are working to advance ...

EXCLUSIVE: Lion Forge Animation, the company behind Oscar-winning animated short film Hair Love, is drawing up its next animated project. The company has teamed with Bron Digital to produce children’s ...

Pre-Pixar and the modern CGI era, animation didn't get hair right because the technology wasn't there. "As any animator will tell you, the hardest thing to accurately render is the millions of tiny ...