Facebook as a maker of animation tools? It happened today. The company just announced a major upgrade to its virtual reality drawing tool, Quill, introducing animation capabilities into the software.

Facebook today open-sourced Pop, the engine behind Paper’s smooth animations and transitions, over on GitHub. Pop uses dynamic instead of traditional static animations to control the scrolling, ...

Your News Feed is about to get a lot more colorful. Facebook is updating the list of words that, when included in a status update, trigger hidden animations. SEE ALSO: Here's the deal with those ...