Animation

The Imaginarium Studios Names Maeve Russell Head of Production

The Imaginarium Studios has appointed Maeve Russell, Head of Production, as the team starts the summer shooting schedule with a slate of new Games, Film, Music and TV projects.

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The Imaginarium Studios Names Maeve Russell Head of Production

Animation

Maxon Studio Accelerates New Graphics Looks and Animations for After Effects

Red Giant has a new motion graphics tool serving as a template engine and editing UI for After Effects, supplied with Capsules that access effects from over 130 Red Giant plugins.

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AEAF Awards Attracts Brilliant New Projects – Enter Now

AEAF Awards are in full swing – projects are coming in from around the world in all categories.

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Anime Series LUPIN ZERO Gets a Perfect Cut and Finish in DaVinci Resolve Studio

Editor/Compositor Miwa Yanagida used DaVinci Resolve Studio to edit and finish anime series LUPIN ZERO, from video storyboards to adjusting colour and texture to outputting deliverables.

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Autodesk Acquires Wonder Dynamics AI and Cloud-based 3D Animation Tools

Autodesk has acquired Wonder Dynamics, developers of Wonder Studio cloud-based 3D animation and VFX software that combines AI with 3D animation and content creation tools.

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Unity’s New AI Features Reach Further Across the Game Development Cycle

Unity Muse is now available with AI-powered content creation tools, Unity 6 will add AI models for runtime environments, and Unity Cloud organises content across projects and pipelines.

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Bardel Optimises and Expands into Cloud Animation Pipeline on AWS

Bardel optimised its animation pipeline for cloud implementation, hiring the cloud consultants at DeadDrop Labs to help integrate Thinkbox Deadline and launch the system on AWS.

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MetaHuman Animator Captures and Retargets Facial Animation for Digital Humans

MetaHuman Animator accurately records and transfers a full range of expressions, looks and emotions in a performance to a digital human, ready for use in Unreal Engine 5 projects.

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Nexus Studios Sign Animation Director Emily Dean

Nexus Studios announces the signing of Emily Dean, writer, director and artist dedicated to animation, to its global roster for commercial representation.

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Cinesite Agrees to Invest in The Imaginarium Studios

Cinesite is to invest in The Imaginarium Studios, a pioneering performance capture and virtual production company with facilities at Pinewood Studios in the UK and Trilith Studios in the US.

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disguise and Move.ai Generate Real-Time Mo Cap for Live and Virtual Worlds

disguise and Move.ai developed Invisible real-time markerless motion capture that transfers movements automatically in real time onto a character rig inside disguise’s Designer software.

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Artists Render Traditional Animation in Unreal Engine to Tell a Thrilling Tale

Half M.T. Studios’ Miguel Ortega talks about building a luminous world and animating a dramatic story with traditional 3D tools and techniques, rendered entirely in Unreal Engine.

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Cosmic Dino Studio Scales Up 3D Animation Resources for ‘Scarygirl’

Cosmic Dino Studio scaled up both the size of their production team and the capacity of their animation, rendering and post systems for the upcoming 3D animated movie ‘Scarygirl’.

Ragdoll Dynamics 3.0 Develops Real-Time Character Physics for Animators

Ragdoll Dynamics 3.0 helps users automate character physics in Maya, adding physically based character posing, replacement rigs for…

Flying Bark to Produce ‘200% Wolf’ Movie, and Animate Untitled Avatar Feature

Flying Bark Productions announced production of ‘200% Wolf’, sequel to the feature film 100% Wolf, and will animate their first Untitled…

Nickelodeon and Mikros Animation to Re-Invent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Mikros Animation announces that it is on the lookout for both seasoned and new animators to join its ranks and be a part of the Turtles’…

Netflix to Acquire Independent Animation Studio Animal Logic

Netflix plans to acquire the Australia’s Animal Logic, building on the two companies’ existing partnership, with a slate of films across…

Atomic Cartoons Expands Creative Capacity and Artist Options on AWS Cloud

Working with DeadDrop Labs, Atomic has the flexibility to quickly add render capacity and compute power through a custom cloud integration…

Foundry Flix 6.4 Expands Editorial Round-tripping and File Transfers

Flix 6.4 supports camera moves between Storyboard Pro, Media Composer and Flix, updates the saving system, and gives users greater control…

Autodesk Invests in RADiCAL, AI-powered 3D Mocap in the Cloud

Autodesk invested in RADiCAL, developers of cloud-based, AI-powered 3D motion capture combining deep learning, biomechanics and computer…

Conductor Sparks Life in Scientific Animations at Microverse Studios

Scientific animators at Microverse complete animations in under two months, scaling rendering resources as needed on Conductor cloud…

Autodesk Builds New Animation, 3D and USD Workflows into Maya and Bifrost

Autodesk’s updates to its 3D tools in Maya and Bifrost for artists working in film, TV, games and visualisation focus on USD integration,…

Flying Bark Takes Off with After Bark, New Hires and Jobs Plus Initiative

Sydney’s Flying Bark animation launched After Bark, a new facility producing animated and live action projects for older audiences, and…

Possible’s cinematic show open introduces Riot Games’ Worlds 2021 with a mix of fantasy worlds and live action performances, held together with a Cinema 4D and Arnold pipeline. Autodesk arnold PSB LOLW BTS 34 Possible visual campaign company took over t

Lead Animator Dan Flynn talks about how the production team at Hero4Hire gives ‘Arthur’, the longest-running kids’ animated TV series, a…

Arnold Render Pipeline Opens Riot Games’ Worlds 2021 Show with a Bang

Possible’s cinematic show open introduces Riot Games’ Worlds 2021 with a mix of fantasy worlds and live action performances, held together…

Tan Jones Joins Territory Studio as Executive Producer

Motion design facility Territory Studio hires Tan Jones, with experience at Golden Wolf, Found and Rushes, to extend the studio’s reach…

Autodesk LiveLink Streams Real-Time Data From Maya to Unreal Engine

Autodesk and Epic Games’ new Unreal Live Link for Maya plugin supports real-time animation data streaming from Maya to Unreal Engine to aid…

Autodesk Acquires Cloud-Based Animation Pipeline from Tangent Labs

Autodesk acquired LoUPE, a cloud-based production pipeline for studios, and is hiring its developer Tangent Labs, who also develop the…

Cinesite To Deliver Animation for Disney Series ‘Iwájú

Cinesite has been awarded animation work for the animated series Iwájú. This marks the first time the feature animation and VFX studio has…

REALTIME Drives F1 Digital Double Facial Animation with DI4D’s Pipeline

REALTIME VFX and animation studio used DI4D’s PURE4D pipeline to drive the facial animation of five digital doubles and one digital…

REALTIME Drives F1 Digital Double Facial Animation with DI4D’s Pipeline

REALTIME VFX and animation studio used DI4D’s PURE4D pipeline to drive the facial animation of five digital doubles and one digital…

Anime Series Animated and Posted Using Unreal Engine and DaVinci Resolve

A new animated series titled ‘Aoi Hane Mistuketa’ (Finding a Blue Feather), available on various Japanese streaming services and globally…

DI4D’s New Head-Mounted Camera Captures Natural Facial Motion

The new DI4D Head-Mounted Camera is optimised for high-fidelity 4D facial performance capture. 4D is DI4D’s stereo photogrammetry system…

Xsens MotionCloud Opens the Door to Remote Mocap Production

Xsens MotionCloud platform is a new service that connects the Xsens user-base with cloud computing, opening up rapid cloud-based processing…

Passion Pictures and FableFX Illuminate Entries at AEAF

It’s time to enter your team’s greatest new work from the past year. AEAF Awards has more than 20 categories for digital work of all…

iPi Soft Devealops Real-Time Integration for iPi Mocap and Unreal Engine

By Sean Young iPi Soft has upgraded their markerless iPi Motion Capture system to support the Unreal Engine development tools for real time…

12field Animation and Digistor Design Remote 2D Production Pipeline

12field Animation in Melbourne specialises in creating long form 2D character animation, including children’s TV series such as ‘Little J…

DI4D PURE4D Captures Precise Facial Performances for Game Engines

DI4D, a specialist in performance-driven facial animation services, has launched a new service called PURE4D, a precise pipeline for…

Bento Box Entertainment to Partner with Princess Pictures in Australia

Bob’s Burgers © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Animation studio Bento Box Entertainment, owned by Fox Entertainment, and Australian…

Arcturus and DOCOMO Telecom Bring Volumetric Video to 5G Mobile

Arcturus is the developer behind the post-production platform HoloSuite, software tools for creating, editing and distributing volumetric…

DNEG to Help Develop ‘The Great Gatsby’ into an Animated Film

By Sean Young Oscar-winning filmmaker, writer and illustrator William Joyce has joined forces with novelist, screenwriter and illustrator…

Animal Logic and Warner Bros. Partner on New Musicala ‘Toto’

Animal Logic has confirmed that the feature musical adaptation of ‘Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz’ will be the next…

Animal Logic Entertainment Announces Screenplay Competition Winner

Animal Logic Entertainment (ALE) is pleased to announce the winner and two runner-up finalists of their inaugural Screenplay Competition…

Digital Domain Ages David Beckham in Campaign Against Malaria

By Sean Young ‘Malaria Must Die, So Millions Can Live’ is a global campaign from the charity Malaria No More UK, supported by a number of…

KeenTools Adds FACS Blendshapes and New Topology for Facial Animators

FaceBuilder's new low-poly resolution KeenTools FaceBuilder now has built-in FACS blendshapes for head animation, and Live Link Face app…

Axis Studios Flexes its Pipeline on the AWS Cloud

Animation and visual effects company Axis Studios creates commissioned and original content for film, television, games and entertainment…

Narina Sokolova Sets the Stage for Animated Storytellers

Narina Sokolova is a background painter, creating the worlds for animated series and shows since the 1990s working on projects ranging from…

ftrack Unreal Engine and Unity Plugins Track Real-time Projects Natively

ftrack plug-in for Unreal Engine - importing assets into ftrack. ftrack has released Unreal Engine and Unity plugins for ftrack Studio…

Digital Domain Teaches Digital Characters How to be More Human

In September, Digital Domain announced that Masquerade 2.0, the next version of its in-house facial capture system, is now ready for…

Vicon and Rokoko Develop Smarter, Simpler Systems for VR Experiences

Software developers at Vicon and Rokoko are making it simpler to turn real performances into authentic animations for digital characters.…

ReDefine Montreal Appoints Corey Smith as Creative Supervisor

'Meet the Robinsons' ReDefine animation and visual effects services company has appointed Corey Smith as North American Creative…

Cinema 4D Tunes Up Character Animation Tools, Integrates Magic Bullet

Maxon updated Cinema 4D’s animation and UV workflows, extended character animation tools and integrated Magic Bullet Looks; explorable…

Weta Digital Launches ‘Weta Animated’ to Produce Original Content

Weta Digital Launches ‘Weta Animated’ to Produce Original Content Weta Digital will begin producing original content for the first time in…

Riot Games and Pixotope Go Live to Augment LPL Pro League Finals

Riot Games and Pixotope Go Live to Augment LPL Pro League Finals Riot Games wanted to add an eye-catching augmented reality show to the LPL…

Illustrators Bridging 3D Animation and Medical Science

Illustrators Bridging 3D Animation and Medical Science Veronica Falconieri Hays is a certified medical illustrator working in Washington DC…

Faceware Studio Matches Animation to Live Performance in Real Time

Faceware Studio Matches Animation to Live Performance in Real Time Faceware Studio is a new software platform made to create life-like,…

AEAF Shows Off Beautiful Work for TV, Film, Digital – and Beyond

AEAF Shows Off Beautiful Work for TV, Film, Digital – and Beyond Some terrific new entries have rolled into AEAF Awards over the last few…

MPC Gets Ready for a More Animated, More CG Future

MPC Gets Ready for a More Animated, More CG Future MPC's focus on animated CG creatures and characters creates emotional gateways to…

AXYZ anima v4 Introduces 4D People and Crowds to Visualisations

AXYZ anima v4 Introduces 4D People and Crowds to Visualisations anima is a stand alone character animation and crowd simulation application…

Motion Design and Animation Come to Life at AEAF Awards

Motion Design and Animation Come to Life at AEAF Awards AEAF Awards now has some beautiful new animated projects displayed online – 2D, 3D…

Moves by MAXON Brings Facial and Body Motion Capture to Cinema 4D

Moves by MAXON Brings Facial and Body Motion Capture to Cinema 4D Moves by Maxon is a new app based on Cineversity‘s facial capture app,…

AEAF Awards Attracts Top Spots and Creative Animations

AEAF Awards Attracts Top Spots and Creative Animations Juice - G2A.com Take a look at some of the first entries in the 2020 AEAF Awards.…

Reviewing the MSI WS65 for Motion Capture and RTX Graphics

Reviewing the MSI WS65 for Motion Capture and RTX Graphics a Sina Azad, TD and Motion Capture Specialist at Plastic Wax Sydney, and David…

Animator Bill Schultz joins ReDefine as Executive Producer of Animation

Animator Bill Schultz joins ReDefine as Executive Producer of Animation ReDefine, the new animation and visual effects services studio from…

Cinema 4D R21 Speeds Workflows and Animation, Launches Subscriptions

Cinema 4D R21 Speeds Workflows and Animation, Launches Subscriptions Cinema 4D with ProRender Maxon Cinema 4D Release 21 (R21) has a new…

AEAF Awards Finalists Announced

AEAF Awards Finalists Announced Congratulations! Below is a list of the finalist entries to AEAF Awards 2019. The Awards not only attracted…

Golaem 7 Develops New Procedural Character Layout Tool and Link to Unreal

Golaem 7 Develops New Procedural Character Layout Tool and Link to Unreal Golaem crowd simulation and character layout software is now…

Jellyfish Pictures Virtualises Animation Hardware with all-IP Studio in Sheffield

Jellyfish Pictures Virtualises Animation Hardware with all-IP Studio in Sheffield VFX and animation studio Jellyfish Pictures has opened a…

DNEG Welcomes Andrew Gordon as Head of Character Animation

DNEG Welcomes Andrew Gordon as Head of Character Animation DNEG has appointed Andrew Gordon as Head of Character Animation of its Feature…

e.d. films Helps Artists Create 3D Scenes from Photoshop Files

e.d. films Helps Artists Create 3D Scenes from Photoshop Files e.d. films released PSD to 3D, a new plugin that converts 2D drawings into…

Ziva VFX 1.6 Automates Creature-to-Mesh Anatomy Transfers

Ziva VFX 1.6 Automates Creature-to-Mesh Anatomy Transfers Ziva VFX 1.6 Anatomt Transfer Ziva Dynamics' Ziva VFX 1.6 software for character…

Faceware Enhances Speed, Accuracy, Prices for Mocap Users Everywhere

Faceware Enhances Speed, Accuracy, Prices for Mocap Users Everywhere Faceware Technologies has introduced new pricing for 2019 with updated…

VFX Supervisor Josh Simmonds to Speak on ‘Aquaman’ at AEAF

VFX Supervisor Josh Simmonds to Speak on ‘Aquaman’ at AEAF In 20 years of animation and visual effects work, VFX Supervisor Josh Simmonds…

Weta Digital and 2n Design Dazzle PHAROS Festival with Interactive Graphics Nvidia unreal childish gambino2 Attendees at the PHAROS festival, a three-day event in November in Auckland, New Zealand that combined music, visual spectacles and immersive eff

DI4D’s Head Mounted Camera System Captures True Facial Performance Facial performance capture company Dimensional Imaging (DI4D) is…