Facebook Makes It Easier For Creators To Share 3D Posts
Get ready to see a lot more 3D content on your Facebook news feed, but how do you get it there and what can you do with it?
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Mixed Parts, New Community Hub For Animators, Launches
Finally, a smart social platform for the animation community.
CGSociety Unveils New and Improved Website
The online destination for digital art industry professionals gets a makeover.
Why Did CG Hub Shut Down Without Warning Its Users?
It’s been one week now since CG Hub, the popular portfolio site and social network for digital artists, unexpectedly shut down, leaving thousands of its users angry and confused.
Gawker’s io9 Launches Animation Website
This week the influential Gawker Media brand launched an animation-specific site called, quite simply, Animation. The blog is a subsite of the larger io9 brand, which already publishes a fair amount of animation coverage. Another Gawker site, the gaming-oriented Kotaku, covers anime and will continue to do so.
Eleanor Davis Creates Google’s Spring Equinox Doodle [Updated]
Google’s homepage celebrates the vernal equinox today with a charming animated Google Doodle.
When Craft Beer Labels Get Animated
Video editor Trevor Carmick is receiving all sorts of attention for his new side project called Beer Labels in Motion, a collection of …
How Etsy Is Using Vine and Stop Motion to Build Its Brand
Vine, Twitter’s mobile looped video app, is less than a year old and still remains a new frontier. Not everyone is sure how to use it and …
Animography Aims to Bring Animated Typography to the Masses
Animography aims to make life a little easier by offering animated typefaces delivered in neatly organized After Effects files. The type …
Artist of the Day: Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith (not to be confused with indie animator Pat Smith) is an artist whose work tends to be constructed of colorful objects as …
How Giphy Plans to Transform Animated GIFs Into An Artform
When Jace Cooke and Alex Chung founded Giphy, they simply wanted a convenient platform for sharing and searching GIFs. But
DreamWorks Animation Bets That AwesomenessTV Will Deliver Awesomeness
Earlier this month, it was announced that DreamWorks Animation had purchased the YouTube channel AwesomenessTV for $33 million in cash. …
Matt Cruickshank Gives Saul Bass The Google Doodle Treatment
Google is celebrating the birthday of graphic designer Saul Bass (1920-1996) with a classy animated tribute on their homepage to Bass’s …
Animated GIFs: Annoying Fad or Teachable Moment?
The GIF is here to stay. So how can the animation community stake its claim in this rapidly evolving narrative medium?
DreamWorks Animation Teams Up With Netflix For New Animated Series
The world of television animation is changing drastically, mainly by the fact that new animated shows won’t appear on TV. Netflix …
‘Tis The Season To Share Christmas GIFs
A terrific collection of holiday-themed animated gifs created by contemporary animators and illustrators.
Google Creates Homage To Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo
I can’t praise enough Google’s use of their homepage to give credit to animation and comic pioneers. Their front-page Google Doodle for …
Pixar Launches A College Website For Monsters University
Those kids at Pixar sure know how to advertise a film. Today they launched an authentic-looking Monsters University college website, more …
JibJab Pushes Into Children’s Entertainment With StoryBots
Brothers Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, founders of JibJab, were visiting New York yesterday to officially launch their new multi-platform …
Tomorrow: Tom Bancroft Online Workshop
On Thursday, September 6, at 8pm (Central), former Disney animator Tom Bancroft will host a live online drawing workshop. He does these …