This Puppet-Like Contraption Lets You Animate CG Characters In Real Time
New York studio Thinko believes that its Mr. Puppet Animation System could change animation production.
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How They Did It: Organic Water Effects With A Flash/Maya Pipeline
Marza Animation Planet converted Flash animation to Maya for organic water effects in their latest short film.
Epic Games Has Created The Ultimate Guide To Virtual Production
The Virtual Production Field Guide provides an overview of “one of the biggest technology disruptors of the visual medium.”
You Can Use The Actual Assets and Workflow From This Real-Time Unity Film in Your Own Projects – Annecy
With its new short “Sherman,” Unity is showcasing what’s possible in real-time rendering of fur, hair, and feathers.
Yes, One Animator Made The CG Animated Feature ‘Away’ On His Own
Gints Zilbalodis’ unconventional animated feature is screening in competition at both Zagreb Animafest and Annecy.
Eric Brevig Joins Method To Spearhead Virtual Production And Real-Time VFX Workflows
Brevig will join Method Studios as senior vfx supervisor and creative director.
A Virtual Production Explainer: What It Is, And What It Could Mean For Your Project
Cartoon Brew makes sense of the virtual production phenomenon, and provides resources that filmmakers can use to start experimenting with virtual production techniques.
Chinese Government Debuts Photoreal Synthetic News Anchor
The AI-generated synthetic anchor was created with the goal of replicating realistic movement, facial expressions, and voice.
12 Cool New Pieces Of Animation Tech We Saw At SIGGRAPH 2018
Didn’t get to SIGGRAPH this year? Here’s a round-up of animation and vfx hardware and software announcements from the confab.
Disney Television Animation Is Exploring Real-Time Rendering With ‘Baymax Dreams’
Disney created a series of three animated shorts using real-time rendering technology.
How E.d. Films Is Using Real-time To Help Make Their Animated Films
A look at how e.d. films in Montreal has adopted the Unity game engine for animated filmmaking, and even developed its own real-time tools.
How The Mill Is Embracing Real-time For Character Animation
The Mill is developing new ways of creating relatable and appealing character animation in real-time.
PREVIEW: Pakistani Animated Feature ‘Allahyar and The Legend of Markhor’
A real-time rendering pipeline using Unreal Engine 4 helped make possible this soon-to-be-released feature from Pakistan.
Digital Humans In Real-time Are The Star In Neill Blomkamp’s Latest Short
Neill Blomkamp’s Oats Studios made a new short using Unity game engine.
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.
Everything You Need To Know About Apple’s New Animoji
With Animojis, Apple brings augmented reality to the masses.
Upcoming Animated Series ‘Zafari’ Is Being Rendered Completely With The Unreal Game Engine
“Zafari'”director David Dozoretz on how his animated tv series is using real-time rendering – and the new possibilities that tv creators have with real-time rendered CG series.
INTERVIEW: How Jorge Gutierrez Learned to Embrace the Polygon While Making ‘Son of Jaguar’
For a filmmaker, working in vr is like chopping off someone’s legs and telling them to run, says “Son of Jaguar” director Jorge Gutierrez.
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.
Disney And Other Researchers Are Developing A New Method For Automated Real-Time Lip Sync
Disney is exploring a new way to automate speech animation with computers.
SIGGRAPH 2017 Preview: Real-Time Projects in Animation, VR, and Gaming
A run-down of the Real-Time Live SIGGRAPH projects, including a focus on an interactive 3d watercolor stylization tool.
Nickelodeon Launches Entertainment Lab To Develop Future Technologies
The future of Nick is more than just tv cartoons — it’s also real-time rendering, VR/AR/MR, and artificial intelligence.
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.
The Animated Short ‘Sonder’ Chose An Unconventional Rendering Solution: Unity
Former Pixar artist Neth Nom explains why he used the game engine Unity to render his new short film.
Unity Has Released Rigged Characters and Environment Art Assets from ‘Adam’
Assets, effects, and environments from the real-time rendered “Adam” demo short from Unity can now be downloaded for personal use.
SIGGRAPH 2016: An Animation and VFX Preview
SIGGRAPH can be overwhelming, so here’s an animation and VFX-focused look at what not to miss in Anaheim.
Oculus TD Max Planck: “We Want to Inspire the Virtual Reality ‘Citizen Kane'”
Challenges and lessons learned from interactive animation storytelling.
Unreal Encourages Filmmakers To Use Its Game Engine
Unreal’s game development toolset is now free for filmmakers and artists.
Activision Shows Off Impressive Real-Time Rendering for Animated Characters
Video gameplay is about to get a lot more realistic. Game producer Activision unveiled this new demo yesterday at the Game Developers …
