Abstract: 3D characters are essential to modern creative industries, but making them animatable often demands extensive manual work in tasks like rigging and skinning. Existing automatic rigging tools ...

AI anime is the fusion of anime aesthetics with artificial intelligence—letting anyone create anime‑style characters, visuals, and story concepts using simple natural‑language prompts. You don’t need ...

With a new edition rolling out, it’s the perfect time for a new character. Here are some things to keep in mind! Making a character for a new game? Or making a new character in an old one? Whatever ...

Theme park merchandise strategies can be confusing when they aggressively market characters with little to no presence in the parks. Universal Orlando Resort has often sold merchandise tied to ...

If you've ever wanted to conjure up a scenario between yourself, Han Solo and the crew from Zootopia, you're in luck. The Walt Disney Company has reached a licensing agreement with OpenAI that brings ...

May the slop be with you? The Walt Disney Company said Thursday it will invest $1 billion in OpenAI in a deal that will allow users to churn out AI videos with copyrighted characters from “Star Wars” ...

Disney announced it will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI. The companies said Sora and ChatGPT Image users will also be able to make AI content with Disney's copyrighted characters. Some ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Kathryn Bigelow’s 2025 gripping political thriller “House of Dynamite” portrays the chaos unleashed when an unidentified nuclear missile strikes the United States, forcing leaders to confront the ...

The promise of elevating character alongside competence in organizations is significant, as Fred Kiel highlighted in his 2015 book “Return on Character,” and my colleagues and I discussed in our 2022 ...