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2024 Animation Industry Layoff Tracker

Tracking layoffs across the animation, vfx, and gaming industries.

This is the fourth round of layoffs at Unity since July 2022, and will affect “all teams, regions, and areas of the business.”

Unity purchased Weta’s tools, pipeline technology, and 275 engineering staff for $1.625 billion less than two years ago.

Unity is under fire for unpopular changes to how game devs will be charged and retroactively changing its TOS.

One discission will focus on challenges involved in creating the characters of ‘The Sea Beast,’ and how they were overcome using Ziva VFX.

After two strong years back-to-back, the gaming industry could be looking at a historic 2023 if Microsoft gets its way.

The studio has an initial staff of 75 artists, with plans to expand before the end of the year.

Unity’s acquisition of Weta Digital could be a game-changing moment in the vfx industry.

The British inventor-and-dog duo’s first ar adventure is due to launch in mid-January.

A preview of the world’s second-largest international animation festival, starting this Wednesday in Ottawa, Canada.

A look at the steps involved in “Ready Player One”’s virtual production paradigm.

The Apple iPhone X is turning out to be a much more powerful tool for animation artists than anyone could have imagined.

Neill Blomkamp’s Oats Studios made a new short using Unity game engine.

Faceware’s markerless motion capture tech is now available for character and avatar animation software iClone 7.

The French production is the first television animated series made with the Unity game engine.

Former Pixar artist Neth Nom explains why he used the game engine Unity to render his new short film.

Assets, effects, and environments from the real-time rendered “Adam” demo short from Unity can now be downloaded for personal use.