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Epic Games Unveils Metahuman Animator, A Potential Game Changer For Automated Facial Animation And Lip Sync

The new tech eliminates the need for bespoke facial motion capture technology, making it possible to accomplish with only an iPhone.

The ‘Brother Bear’ director reacts to a recent viral video that claims to be animated using AI.

After being announced last year, Moonray was made available to the public today as open source for general access.

The company is using ChatGPT, among other technologies, and claims that AI will also be used for images, voices, and animation.

Krikey says that AI animation can be “the foundation of the next creator economy.”

‘Nothing, Forever’ went live on Twitch in December, and has been streaming non-stop ever since.

Artists quickly dismissed the company’s claim of animation labor shortages and questioned the ethics of image-generating software.

Superprod is the first French studio to deploy a pipeline based on the Pixar tech.

The suit claims generative AI art tools violate copyright law by scraping artists’ work from the web without their consent.

Developers can now access the suite of cloud-native AI microservices that make it easier to build and deploy avatars at scale.

According to the team at Epic Games, with UE 5.1 “we’re honing in on the artist, and how the artist can use this tool.”

The funding will be used to accelerate the development of open AI models for image, language, audio, video, 3d, and more.

Apoki is only the latest in a long line of popular animated characters being presented as influencers and pop stars.

Using software like Dall-E and Midjourney, artists are creating comics without lifting a pencil.

Trioscope, producer of ‘The Liberator,’ announced it will be licensing its suite of software tools and practical solutions for general use.

Soon, everyone will have access to the same rendering software used on ‘The Bad Guys’ and ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.’

Tweety is the first of many Looney Tunes characters who will receive the NFT treatment.

Green had several NFTs stolen from his crypto wallet after falling victim to a phishing scam.

The company envisions its Lottie format as a replacement for GIFs.

The three companies will work together to “create new social entertainment exploring the connection between digital and physical worlds.”