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Marvelous Designer, The Leading Cloth Production Software For 3D, Gets A Raft Of New Features For Version 10
Three users of Marvelous Designer tell us how they create fantastic 3D clothes, while saving time and money.
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How Wallace And Gromit Transitioned To Augmented Reality For ‘The Big Fix Up’ (Interview)
The British inventor-and-dog duo's first ar adventure is due to launch in mid-January.
Magic Leap Slashes Workforce, Causing 80–120 Animation Job Losses (EXCLUSIVE)
Layoffs have taken place in both Florida and New Zealand.
Coronavirus Outbreak: Animation Studios In L.A. Are Asking Artists To Work Remote (Updated)
Instead of toilet paper, stock up on pajamas because we're all going to be working from home soon!
HOW-TO: Generating A 3D Animated Gollum From A Single Photo
The plug-in for Reallusion's Character Creator software lets users generate 3d animated digital humans from a single photo.
10 Tips For First-Time Showrunners, From People Who Did It — And Survived
The showrunners of three series — "Puffin Rock," "Moominvalley," and "Cupcake & Dino: General Services" — told us what helped them make the first season of their shows.
‘Detective Pikachu’ VFX Supervisor Erik Nordby On The Huge Challenge Of Translating Pokémon Into CG
With over 60 Pokémon to design and a complicated approval pipeline, "Pokémon Detective Pikachu" was not your typical hybrid cg production.
PSD to 3D Is A New Tool That Creates 3D Scenes Out Of Photoshop Artwork
Add an extra dimension to your drawings. PSD to 3D is a new plug-in that easily converts 2d drawings into 3d content.
Step-By-Step: Breaking Down Blender’s New ‘Spring’ Short
How the Blender team made a main character for their latest short film.
Snow And Fur Combine To Make Imageworks’ Effects For ‘Smallfoot’ A Yeti-Sized Challenge
Two of the hardest things to produce in visual effects animation are snow and fur - two of the main elements required for "Smallfoot."
CASE STUDY: Why DitoGear’s Animator Cube Should Be An Essential Part Of Your Stop-Motion Toolkit
DitoGear offers essential gear for stop-motion animators. Here's our case study of how one animator used DitoGear's Animator Cube to create his latest project.
How 2D Tools Let You Go 3D
The debate about 2d versus 3d animation is becoming increasingly irrelevant as more artists use an integrated 2d/3d approach thanks to the new generation of powerful animation tools.
‘The Tick’: Making A Completely CG, 2,000-Foot Human On A TV Schedule And Budget
Behind the scenes of FuseFX's Very Large Man digital human created for the Amazon series "The Tick."
7 Weeks, 917 Frames, Glass Beads, Hair Wax, And Vaseline: Inside ‘Early Man”s Longest Shot
How Aardman Animations pulled off the hilarious massage scene in Nick Park’s "Early Man."
From Performance Capture To Creature: How The Apes Were Created In ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’
An overview of Weta Digital’s process in turning performance capture into final animation in the newest 'Apes' film.
Midas Touch Automates 2D Animation With New Creature Tool
A new tool automates the tedious task of secondary animation, like cloth and hair.
How They Animated Baby Groot In That Epic Opening To ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’
With a little help from Framestore, Baby Groot stole the show in the opening battle scene of 'Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2.'
‘Agent 327: Operation Barbershop’ Trailer: How Blender Was Used To Pull Off Hollywood-Level Animation
The animation test, intended to be a forerunner to a feature film project, was made in Blender and is inspired by a famous Dutch comic series.
Paul Debevec: A Name You Absolutely Need to Know in CG, VFX, Animation, and VR
A deep dive with researcher Paul Debevec, who has been pivotal in some of the biggest innovations in vfx, including photoreal digital characters.
An Oral History of Morphing in Michael Jackson’s ‘Black or White’
We look back at the making of Michael Jackson's "Black or White" music video on its 25th anniversary.
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