Pixar's "Elio" takes an 11-year-old boy, eager to be abducted by aliens, on the adventure of a lifetime when he's beamed up to the Communiverse, an otherworldly interplanetary space station filled ...

London-based startup Latent Technology has raised $2.1 million to build the next-generation animation technology for virtual worlds and game characters. The startup uses AI-based animation technology ...

While Pixar has delivered innovative characters in recent years, including the ethereal Joe from “Soul” and the illuminating Joy from “Inside Out,” they aren’t nearly as complex as the fiery Ember and ...

Every Pixar movie has introduced its own technical problems, from creating the first fully computer-animated feature film with "Toy Story" to developing a stronger virtual camera for "WALL-E." In this ...

Attendees of the 2023 Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology. (Courtesy of the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology) The Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Epic Games, owner of the Unreal Engine widely used across the games industry, has acquired the company behind the facial animation work deployed in ...

Representatives of international animation, screenwriters and actors guilds staged a protest at the Annecy Animation Film Festival on Thursday to voice their fears over the implications of generative ...

In today’s high-tech world, there are as many ways to make an animated film as there are film genres. Each year’s top animated features span everything from family fare to real-life documentaries and ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations ...

SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AI-driven animation startup Plask has raised US$2.56 million in pre-Series A funding to bring their cutting-edge cloud-based animation technology to customers ...

Game developer Epic Games Inc has acquired California-based real-time facial animation technology company Hyprsense. What Happened: Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri remarked that the acquisition will enable ...