Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers developed new algorithms for animating coiled hair, enabling more realistic and diverse depictions of Afro-textured ...

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 ...

Chris has been playing video games for most of his life, and writing about them off-and-on for a significant chunk of that time. He has also gotten involved with the industry more directly by working ...

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 ...

Carl Reed, producer of the Academy Award-winning short Hair Love and co-founder of Lion Forge Animation, has set up Composition Media, an animation studio with much of the content highlighting ...

Last year, sixth grader Faith Fennidy was sent home because her braids violated her New Orleans school’s dress code, a week after six-year-old Florida boy C. J. Stanley was turned away from his ...