Westword

Mile High Animation Receives $10,000 Grant to Fund Free Animation Courses for All Ages

The Denver Creates fund has awarded a local animation studio a $10,000 grant to offer free animation courses to kids and adults. Since 2023, Mile High Animation has offered a summer camp and workshop ...
9to5google

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 ...
CNET

'Twisted Wonderland: The Animation': Where and When to Stream the New Anime Series

Kourtnee covers TV streaming services and home entertainment. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter at Showbiz Cheat Sheet, where she wrote about film, television, music, celebrities and ...
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 ...
Columbus Dispatch

Columbus is building a diverse animation industry, but there is still work to be done

Columbus is trying to grow its animation industry and retain local talent from schools like CCAD. Financial incentives like the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit and the Columbus Motion Picture Incentive ...
GamesRadar+

Toby Fox created a beloved Deltarune villain "a long time ago," and had to abandon many ideas like using an Xbox Kinect and making them dance using a Hatsune Miku animation program

He also had another idea that ended up looking "tremendously bad" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred source on ...
Cartoon Brew

USC Launches The Expanded Animation (XA) MFA Program: A Bold New Frontier For Artists And Innovators

The University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts has unveiled its groundbreaking Expanded Animation Research + Practice (XA) MFA program, a comprehensive, interdisciplinary ...
Cartoon Brew

Jeffrey Katzenberg-Backed AI Animation Software Cartwheel Raises $10 Million

AI animation software startup Cartwheel announced today a new $10 million funding round as well as multiple hires from Pixar. The company also emerged out of beta and has made its 3d animation tools ...
CNET

Unlike Any AI I've Seen: Why This 3D Modeling Program Works for Anyone

In an exclusive demo with Intangible's ex-Pixar and ex-Unity executives, I saw how you can create an entire 3D AI world and use it to create still images and short videos. Katelyn is a writer with ...
Yahoo

The best animation Oscar winner was made in totally free software that anyone can use

It was a strong year for Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations, and an underdog triumphed. At the 97th annual Academy Awards at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles last night, Flow beat competition ...
IndieWire

Director Gints Zilbalodis on the Wordless Worldbuilding of ‘Flow’

Zilbalodis tells IndieWire about working in Blender to create an emotive, evocative animation style. Focused on a cat, who reluctantly ends up in the same boat as a set of other animals amid a flooded ...