Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bear trainer Doug Seus plays with Bart the Bear, who's appeared in over 20 TV shows and films. Jean-Louis Atlan/Sygma via Getty ...

Do animals still have a future in Hollywood? CGI and AI are putting many animal actors out of work — though audiences can ...

There is a long and storied history of nonhuman actors, from Luke, the dog of silent star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, to the collies cast in the role of Lassie in film and on television. Bart the Bear ...

Hollywood’s adoption of visual effects – also referred to as computer generated imagery, or CGI – has had an outsized role in putting many animal actors out of work. Ever since “Jurassic Park” (1993) ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But business has not been as good as it used to be for the animal trainers who ...