Nobody Paid For Lucas Zanotto’s Personal Animation Work – Until NFTs Came Along
Lucas Zanotto reveals that he has earned six figures in the past year by selling non-fungible tokens of his animated loops.
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Beeple Appeared On ‘The Tonight Show’ After His Animation NFT Installation Sold For $29 Million At Auction
Beeple’s path from working-class digital artist to art world superstar is a lesson for indie animators and the value of embracing emerging tech.
30 Years Ago: The CG Secrets of the Ballroom Sequence in ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Jim Hillin, the cg supervisor of “Beauty and the Beast,” reveals the creation of an iconic moment in Disney animation history.
You Can Soon Start Producing Weta-Quality VFX From Home
Unity’s acquisition of Weta Digital could be a game-changing moment in the vfx industry.
Nvidia’s New Tool Uses Sound Files To Animate Faces In Real Time
The software ties into Nvidia’s metaverse development platform.
Digital Cities, Talking Toys: Nvidia Presents Its Vision Of The Metaverse
The company has fleshed out the future of its ambitious Omniverse platform.
Microsoft Embraces Metaverse By Adding Animated Avatars To Teams
Welcome to the non-Meta metaverse.
Facebook Rebrands As Meta, Creates New Opportunities For Animation With Metaverse
A world populated by digital avatars needs a whole lot of real-time animation.
Plask, Whose AI-Based Tech Converts Video Into Animation, Raises $2.6M
The South Korean startup says its automated animation tool can slash production costs.
‘The Liberator’ Producer Trioscope Raises $5M To Expand Its ‘Enhanced Hybrid Animation’ Business
The company claims that its technique is up to 50% cheaper than a live-action production.
Facebook Returns VR Drawing Tool Quill To Its Creator
Good news for vr animators: the newly rebranded “Quill by Smoothstep” will still be free.
Former Pixar Research Scientist Describes The Racist Assumptions That Continue To Shape Digital Characters
The skin and hair of virtual humans are still largely shaped by white features, argues Theodore Kim in a SIGGRAPH lecture.
Go To Work As An Animated Character With Facebook’s New Workrooms VR App
Facebook thinks creativity suffers when staff work remotely. Its solution: virtual offices filled with cartoon avatars.
Watch Whimsical CG Creatures Parade Across Your Screen Forever In ‘Infinity’
Artists’ collective Universal Everything have created an endless parade of code-generated characters. We’re entranced.
Japan’s Toei Is Using AI Tools To Speed Up Animation Production
The anime titan has used tools to speed up coloring and convert photos into animation backgrounds.
The Director Of ‘Cruella’ Can’t Tell The Film’s Real And CG Dogs Apart
“They’re so good with the cg, I can’t even tell the difference anymore,” says Craig Gillespie.
Fox Launching NFT Company, Producing Blockchain Animated Series By Dan Harmon
Fox is embracing non-fungible tokens, the contentious tech that’s shaking up the crypto and digital art worlds.
A Decade-Old Animated Meme Has Just Sold For $600,000. Here’s What That Means For Artists.
Why is the digital art market booming? Welcome to non-fungible tokens.
Epic Unveils Metahuman Tool For Creating Highly Realistic Virtual Beings
The tool promises “to take real-time digital human creation from weeks or months to less than an hour.”
‘Fortnite’ Creator Epic Games Awards Its First Film Grant To Animated Feature ‘Gilgamesh’
The feature will be made with Unreal, Epic’s widely used real-time engine.
