2025 came to a close with animation as globally dominant as ever. Ne Zha 2 topped the worldwide box office with $2.21 billion, followed by Walt Disney Animation’s Zootopia 2, which came out hot in ...

3D computer animation is the go-to style for most studios making animated films today. However, traditional hand-drawn 2D animation once ruled over the industry and is sorely missed in the modern ...

Abstract: Audio-driven 3D facial animation is crucial for enhancing the metaverse's realism, immersion, and interactivity. While most existing methods focus on generating highly realistic and lively ...

2025 has been a massive year for the animated side of Netflix. Look no further than Kpop Demon Hunters, which became the streamer’s most popular movie of all time. Out of the animated movies that ...

The animation industry has always been labor-intensive, blending artistry, innovation, and technology to bring stories to life. Now, a new technological shift, generative AI (genAI), is sparking ...

After years of AI disrupting industries and streamlining repetitive workflows, the technology is now poised to transform animation. In 2024, director and writer Tom Paton’s AiMation Studios released ...

Los Angeles-based startup Cheehoo has raised $10 million to build what it describes as a "creative engine" for animation and interactive storytelling, putting advanced AI-enhanced workflows into the ...

CGI anime isn’t always great. When done lazily, it can feel clunky and robotic, like watching video game cutscenes from a decade ago. Expressions can look weirdly flat, and characters might move too ...

If you read about 3d in CSS and didn’t fully understand how to make 3d in the way you want using plain CSS, I hope this mini article can be of help. In the end, you will be able to build something ...

Abstract: We introduce Crowd-Sourced Splatting (CSS), a novel 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) pipeline designed to overcome the challenges of pose-free scene reconstruction using crowd-sourced imagery.