The minute Croak’s little frog protagonist starts moving, such as the moment he snaps from running into a pinball-like projectile, stretching, squashing, and reforming in a split second, you know the ...

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 ...