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Dima Grigorev explains how he used Blender, Unreal Engine, mocap, and ragdoll physics to create Shokran’s PS2-style ‘Imhotep: The Falcon of Gold’ music video.
The streamer pledged at least €240,000/year, reinforcing Blender’s position as a professional, open-source tool for high-end animation pipelines.
Director Julian Glander unpacks the visual design, storytelling choices, and Blender DIY animation methods behind a defining scene in ‘Boys Go to Jupiter.’
‘We treated the cars like characters’: Kevin Van Der Meiren and David Nicolas on the show’s surreal Hot Wheels-inspired titles.
Company co-founder Andrew Carr speaks about Cartwheel, a new AI animation tool developed with the help of Pixar animators and backed by Jeffrey Katzenberg.
The film’s North American distribution rights have been acquired by Cartuna and Irony Point.
The mixed-media music video combines drawn animation, cg, and rotoscope for Irish singer Mary Coughlan’s take on the classic song ‘Is That All There Is?’
This trilogy of stop-motion shorts achieves its effect with a mix of traditional and cutting-edge animation techniques.
Schemoul, an animation industry artist in France, worked nights and weekends for nine months to create this stunning, dreamlike film.
Using his unique production methods, the self-taught Russia-born, Texas-based animator is able to produce an entire animated short in one workday.
‘Away’ is the solo-animated debut feature of the director of the two-time Oscar-nominated ‘Flow.’
‘Flow’ director Gints Zilbalodis and plug-in developer Mārtiņš Upītis talk about the development of the water plug-in used to create the Golden Globe-winning film.
It’s safe to say that ‘Flow’ has now emerged as a top contender for the Oscar this year.
“After finishing the script, I did not read it again,” Zilbalodis told Cartoon Brew. “Even when I was making the animatic, that was based on my memory of the script.”
A ghost goes for a walk in the woods.
In this Oscar-qualified short, a group of friends go on a roadtrip as their car – and their country – falls apart.
Gints Zilbalodis’s ‘Flow,’ one of the very best animated features of the year, will be released in the U.S. in November.
Clockwork toy characters and sets experience chaos mirroring the song’s unsettled narrative.
Glander spoke with Cartoon Brew about the joys and challenges of self-producing an animated feature.
The student film will be in competition at this year’s Ottawa animation festival.