When animator Stefan Gruber was eight, they saw a dog run across a wall, not in real life, but in Jules Engel’s hand-drawn short “Accident,” projected during a Pioneer Square art walk. That was the ...

“I’ve been doing it all backwards,” animator Aaron Blaise says, chuckling. Truly, it’s hard to overstate just how disrupting the emergence of CG was to traditionally-trained animators like Blaise.

The pipeline for traditional, hand-drawn animation remains a methodical process, which is why it’s taken six years for Studio Ponoc’s second animated feature, The Imaginary, debuting tomorrow, July 5, ...