Once a novelty, full-motion video is now a useful tool for game designers

If you played video games in the 1980s and ‘90s, then you’re probably already familiar with full-motion video (FMV), which was a way of telling stories using pre-recorded video files instead of the ...
Cartoon Brew

Computer Animation Before ‘Toy Story’: The Wild, Brilliant Experiments That Built CGI Animation

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the John Lasseter film Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, we’re taking a look at early CGI milestones in the days before Toy Story. But ...
The New York Times

Animation Hasn’t Been the Same Since ‘Toy Story’

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost. By Maya Phillips There are so many ways of ...
Cartoon Brew

‘Neverlanders’ Graphic Novel Getting Animated Feature Adaptation From Australia’s Pixel Zoo

Australian animation house Pixel Zoo Studios is bringing Neverlanders, the award-winning graphic novel by Tom Taylor and Jon Sommariva, to the big screen. Pixel Labs, the studio’s originals division, ...
Fast Company

SCAD just launched an AI major, and it’s already controversial

As the largest art and design school in the United States—with nearly 17,000 students enrolled at its Savannah and Atlanta campuses—the Savannah College of Art and Design prides itself on offering a ...
The New York Times

Beloved 1997 computer game ‘Backyard Baseball’ to return as 2D animated special

Tiffany Haddish and Donald Faison are among the voice actors for the animated "Backyard Baseball." Courtesy of Playground Productions If you grew up in the late ’90s, there’s a fair chance your first ...
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Here are all of the fun like button animations in YouTube’s redesign

Like Pokémon, it’s fun to try and snatch up every new custom like button in YouTube’s redesign. One user put together an animated list of every new icon. Part of YouTube’s broader new design on ...
Yahoo

AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE MAKING OF ‘TRON’

When Walt Disney died in 1966, his creative vision did too. The studio that had produced the animated classics Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Dumbo, and Fantasia began focusing on ...
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AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE MAKING OF ‘TRON’

Released on July 9, 1982, and directed by Steven Lisberger, Tron starred Jeff Bridges (Kevin Flynn), Bruce Boxleitner (Alan Bradley/Tron), and Cindy Morgan (Lora Baines/Yori). It only made a reported ...
PC Gamer

Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters

Nvidia has announced that its Audio2Face animation technology is going open source. On paper, that should make it much easier for a wide range of game developers to create AI characters with ...
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10 Greatest Animated Movies of the Last 50 Years, Ranked

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...