Disney's tale about the rescue of a mother abducted by Martians shows improvements in Robert Zemeckis' performance capture system. By Kirk Honeycutt Robert Zemeckis’ performance capture system, which ...

Disney is known for its spectacular films and magical worlds, but that doesn’t prevent it from making a few flops. In 2011, the seemingly indomitable animation giant created a failure big enough to ...

Cinema and technology go hand in hand. As special effects and computer graphics became more advanced, film embraced evolving VFX and utilized their storytelling potential. While things like ...

You'll want to stay through the closing credits of the new motion capture animated adventure "Mars Needs Moms," a film from the people who gave us "The Polar Express." There are four minutes of clips ...

There just isn't much to say about "Mars Needs Moms." This is a film that's too dumb to be cute, directed only at kiddies who haven't reached speaking age and are most excited by things that bounce ...

For a technology that's intended to make animated humans look more real, it sure hasn't been used to tell stories that are more human ... Here’s the irony of motion-capture animation, one that Mars ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Take out the trash, eat your broccoli - who needs moms, anyway? Nine-year-old Milo finds out just how much he needs his mom when ...