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Fliiip Book Revives Flash-Era Accessibility With a Simple Browser Animation Tool
‘Fliiip Book is an attempt to get back a small piece of what made Flash so wonderful back in the 2000s,’ says its designer, Jonathan Andrew Myers.
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Motorica Raises $5.8M For Its Game Animation AI Platform
“Traditionally, animators spend 70% of their time on technical grunt work and only 30% on actual creative performance,” says co-founder Willem Demmers. “Motorica flips that.”
Cartwheel Co-Founder Andrew Carr: AI Tools Allow Animators To Be ‘Empowered To Make More Things’
Company co-founder Andrew Carr speaks about Cartwheel, a new AI animation tool developed with the help of Pixar animators and backed by Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Jeffrey Katzenberg-Backed AI Animation Software Cartwheel Raises $10 Million
The company, which says its software will do for animation what “the iPhone did for photography,” also announced the hiring of two veteran Pixar animators.
TVPaint Assures Users Of Its Animation Software That It Will Not Add Generative AI Features
“TVPaint Animation was made as a traditional animation tool,” the developer said in a statement. “As such, our goals will always be directed toward hand-drawn animation.”
Moho Animation Software States That It Doesn’t Currently Plan To Develop AI Tools
Developer Lost Marble says “this will continue to be our position, at least until potential ethical and legal issues are resolved in a way that does not harm artists.”
Toon Boom Animation Launches Beta Program For Ember, A New Suite Of AI-Powered Productivity Tools
The first six tools help to create masks, upscale and extend backgrounds, and aid with the time-consuming scene setup process.
‘The Eclipse’ Short Film Is A Magical Directorial Debut For Gabriel Schemoul
Schemoul, an animation industry artist in France, worked nights and weekends for nine months to create this stunning, dreamlike film.
KrumbleTV Creator On Making Animated Films With Metahuman Creator
Using his unique production methods, the self-taught Russia-born, Texas-based animator is able to produce an entire animated short in one workday.
The Custom Blender Plug-in That Was Used To Create The Water Scenes In ‘Flow’ Is Now Available Publicly
‘Flow’ director Gints Zilbalodis and plug-in developer Mārtiņš Upītis talk about the development of the water plug-in used to create the Golden Globe-winning film.
Procreate Pledges To Avoid Generative AI Features In Its Apps
“The path generative AI is on is wrong for us,” the software maker said in a statement.
In The Dome: Mexican Filmmaker Jesús Pérez Irigoyen Discusses His Adventures In Immersive VR And Dome Animation
Pérez Irigoyen’s company Dessignare has found success with unconventional screen formats for animation in planetarium venues and virtual reality.
Autodesk Unveils Project Bernini, A New Generative AI Tool That Creates 3D Shapes
The experimental project developed by Autodesk AI Lab is not available for public use.
AI-rony: Midjourney Bans Stability AI Employees From Using Its Service In Fear They Are Scraping Its Data
A Stability employee’s bot was caught scraping Midjourney text prompts and images, causing a 24-hour shutdown of the service.
Epic Games Unveils New “Per Seat” Pricing For Non-Game Developers Using Unreal Engine
Unreal will continue to be free for hobbyists, students, educators, and companies that earn less than $1 million in annual gross revenue.
Artists Share AI Experiences And Anxieties In New Video Essay: ‘AI Vs Artists – The Biggest Art Heist In History’
Adobe design master and instructor Martin Perhiniak has posted a video featuring dozens of artists discussing their stances on AI.
Google’s Genie AI Model Creates Video Game-Like Interactive Environments From Text And Image Prompts
The model is trained exclusively on footage of 2d platformer video games and can generate action-controllable 2d worlds.
Disney’s 10th Accelerator Program Backs Trio Of AI Startups
Five companies were selected for Disney’s 10th Accelerator program. Three specialize in AI, one in VR, and another in autonomous vehicles.
OpenAI’s Sora Creates Minute-Long Photorealistic Animation From Text Prompts
Built on OpenAI’s Dall-E and GPT models, Sora can also take an existing video and extend it or fill in missing frames.
How Autodesk’s New Asset Management Platform Flow Evolves Cloud-Based Production Pipelines
Autodesk senior engineering director Jeff Bell explains the benefits of the company’s new cloud-based asset management platform, Flow.