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.
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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.
Pixar Veteran Guido Quaroni Appointed To Key Role On Adobe’s 3D & Immersive Team
Quaroni spent 24 years at Pixar, most recently as its vice president of software r&d.
Meet The Animators Who Are Reaching Millions Of Viewers On Tiktok
“Tiktok is the perfect platform for experimentation. We’ve learned in two months what would have taken years in any other medium,” say the creators of “Noodle and Bun.”
How This Start-Up Aims To Create High-End Animation In ‘A Fraction’ Of Normal Production Times
AMGI boasts major industry names behind the scenes, including Colin Brady, Teddy Newton, and Jill Culton.
Understanding ‘The Volume,’ The Technology That’s Changing VFX Production
This set-up is reshuffling the entire production pipeline.
An Artist Has Used Machine Learning To Turn Animated Characters Into Creepy Photorealistic Figures
Please don’t show this to the Walt Disney Company.
Epic Games Launches Free Online Course In Basics Of Virtual Production
Want to learn a useful new skill: try virtual production.
Weta Signs Deal With Amazon Web Services To Create Cloud-Based VFX Workflow
The tech setup will extend Weta’s remote collaborative workflow to its crew all over the world.
Real-Time Animation Software Adobe Character Animator Adds New Features In Public Beta
Users can now automatically generate head and eyebrow movement from recorded audio.
Disney Researchers Have Developed An AI Facial Recognition Tool For Animated Characters
The Content Genome could help in-house artists, as well as serving “business intelligence.”
How To Make A Short Film Using Quill: An Animator’s Guide To The VR Software
Zeyu Ren explains how he thinks Quill could benefit all animators working in 3d.
Ziva Dynamics Raises $7M Seed Funding, Expands Character Simulation Software Into Gaming
The company’s development of a a real-time platform will allow it to work more closely with major game studios.
