From cel animation to stop motion and 3D, the best animation styles can captivate audiences, but which one is for you?

2021 was, as far as years go, not the best. But it was an exemplary year for animation, an artform that broadened the kind of stories it told and embraced new aesthetic tools to tell those stories.

As we hit Toy Story’s 30th anniversary, we thought about how far animation has come. No disrespect to the O.G., but after a recent rewatch, we definitely noticed how far it's progressed since 1995. At ...