Spire Animation Studios raises round from Temasek for animated films
Spire Animation Studios announced it raised a round of funding from Singapore-based global investment company Temasek and investment firm Ericsenz. Spire said the round...
Flipside Studio offers VR production tool for animation
Flipside Studio is a new virtual production tool that enables actors and directors to capture and create animated content entirely in VR. It’s leaving...
Tilt Brush artists become animators with update to toolkit
Google’s Tilt Brush app is evolving from a new way for artists to create into an important new tool in a developer’s arsenal. Back in...
Limitless lets artists create character animations within virtual reality
Limitless has created a way for artists to create computer animations while inside a virtual reality world. The company has developed a tool that allows...
Cartoon Forum: Animation and video games growing closer than ever
TOULOUSE, France — The worlds of digital animation and video games have become increasingly popular over the past decade. But the intersection between these two...
Bringing characters to life with Pixar’s animator magic (interview)
Even with computers, it still takes weeks to create a few seconds of animation. Monsters are harder to animate than you'd expect.
Creating a creature with 5.5M pieces of animated hair in Pixar’s Monsters University (interview)
Monster's University is a technological marvel that took a room full of computers years to fully animate. A single frame took 29 hours to render.
Angry Birds developer acquires animation studio Kombo
Rovio, the Helsinki-based developer of gaming sensation Angry Birds, announced Wednesday it had acquired Finnish animation studio Kombo for an undisclosed amount of cash...
Mixamo bets video game players will pay money for virtual motion
Virtual goods have become a runaway industry as gamers the world over show they’re willing to pay real money for virtual room decorations, pets,...