It’s also been one of the worst developments, as the new movie Sneaks—about sneakers that talk (really)—proves. Movies like Turning Red, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Lego Movie, and especially ...

Stop-motion took a backseat to CGI in the years that followed. Pixar’s Toy Story (1995), the world’s first fully CGI-animated feature, cemented CGI as the way of the future. The only other ...