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Cartoon Network’s new “DIY” miniseries is a quirky and inspiring experiment, both conceptually and production-wise.
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Short Pick of the Day: ‘The Loaf Zone’ by Christopher Rutledge
The bizarre Loaf Town is explored in scenarios that range from the absurdly mundane to the insanely absurd.
See The Results Of This Animator’s Homemade Motion Capture System Using iPhone X
The Apple iPhone X is turning out to be a much more powerful tool for animation artists than anyone could have imagined.
‘Fox And The Whale”s Robin Joseph On Making A Personal Film: “The Only Way Is To Become Fully Immersed”
To make the film he truly wanted to make, industry artist Robin Joseph had to go indie. Now, his film “Fox and the Whale” is shortlisted for an Academy Award.
iClone 7 Introduces Markerless Facial Capture Tech
Faceware’s markerless motion capture tech is now available for character and avatar animation software iClone 7.
How One Animator Is Making His Own CG Series With Unreal Engine
Peter Monga shares the lessons he’s learned creating “Morgan Lives in a Rocket House” on his own with the Unreal game engine.
How Real-time Rendering Is Changing VFX And Animation Production
Real-time tools are giving animation and vfx creators more flexibility in generating cg worlds and characters.
Can You Pick the Real Car in This Shot? Behind-The-Scenes of ‘The Fate of the Furious’
By the end of production, even the vfx artists and filmmakers had difficulty telling the real cars apart from the digital ones.
Behind The Scenes of ‘Mr. Carton’: The Animated Series Made With a Game Engine
The French production is the first television animated series made with the Unity game engine.
Indian Filmmaker Ishan Shukla Shares His Path to Making the Short ‘Schirkoa’
Independent cg animation is rare in India. Filmmaker Ishan Shukla is trying to change that.
Tips & Tricks for Creating Fantastic Beasts From the Artists of ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’
Behind the scenes of the film’s biggest beasts.
46 Artists From 16 Countries Made ‘Duel’ Using Artella’s Online Platform [Exclusive]
Virtual animation studio platform Artella reveals details about its recent shot, ‘Duel,’ debuting exclusively on Cartoon Brew.
Maya Will Become Subscription-Only Software in 2016
Autodesk, the developer of Maya computer graphics software, offered new details yesterday about its transition to a subscription-only software model.
This Maya Tutorial Begins Normally But Just Keep Watching
All is not what it seems in this Maya walk cycle tutorial by Nathan Hibberd.
Sony Releases Free Zombie Character Rig from ‘Hotel Transylvania’
In a nice bit of Halloween-themed marketing savvy, Sony has released a free character rig of a zombie bellhop from “Hotel Transylvania.”
“Upstairs” by Matthias Hoegg
In the brilliant three-minute short Upstairs, Matthias Hoegg imagines what goes on behind the doors of our neighbors’s apartments. It’s a …
“The Lindy Cubes” by Josep Bernaus
Barcelona-based Josep Bernaus gets a lot of mileage out of basic cube forms in his short The Lindy Cubes. The expressive movement was …
David OReilly Is Giving Away His “External World” Character Rigs
In what may be a first for a major award-winning animated short, filmmaker David OReilly has released all of the character rigs from his …
A French Skin Flick That Gets Up Close (NSFW)
It’s almost a guarantee that when you see a student film from the French animation school Supinfocom, it’s going to look beautiful. But …
“I, Pet Goat II” By Heliofant
I, Pet Goat II was directed by Louis Lefebvre at the Montreal area studio Heliofant. The sophisticated production design stirs mo-cap and …
Dover Releases New Maya NURBS Modeling Training Video
Halifax, Nova Scotia -— Dover Studios released Maya NURBS Modeling 4th Edition, their latest visual effects training video. Maya …
“Sayonara” by Eric Bates
Canadian artist Eric Bates made Sayonara while studying animation in Japan at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. “This story was …
CG Squash and Stretch Just Got a Little Easier
To paraphrase Patrick Henry, Give me squash and stretch or give me death. As an outsider to the CG animation production process, I’m …