August 3, 2005 The world’s most important computer graphics showcase SIGGRAPH 2005 opened yesterday with a rash of new important announcements and techniques to be seen on the floor of the Los Angeles ...

London-based startup Latent Technology has raised $2.1 million to build the next-generation animation technology for virtual worlds and game characters. The startup uses AI-based animation technology ...

Pixar's "Elio" takes an 11-year-old boy, eager to be abducted by aliens, on the adventure of a lifetime when he's beamed up to the Communiverse, an otherworldly interplanetary space station filled ...

Sony Pictures' upcoming "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" still uses molding clay and traditional stop-motion animation to bring its wide-eyed characters to life, but creator Aardman Animations happily ...

Epic Games has acquired Cubic Motion, a provider of automated performance-driven facial animation technology for video games, film, broadcast, and immersive experiences such as virtual reality. Cubic ...

With an eye toward accelerating digital human production, Epic Games — creator of 'Fortnite' and developer of the Unreal gaming engine also used in Hollywood for real-time “virtual production” — has ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations ...

In today’s high-tech world, there are as many ways to make an animated film as there are film genres. Each year’s top animated features span everything from family fare to real-life documentaries and ...

Attendees of the 2023 Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology. (Courtesy of the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology) The Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & ...

Looking ahead towards the future, Toei Animation has just revealed the first phase of its new 10-year plan, which aims to expand the longtime titan of the anime industry overseas, and increase the ...