In Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers, a research team affiliated with UNIST reports a new AI technology that can animate 3D characters to mimic the exact movements shown in a ...

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost. By Maya Phillips There are so many ways of ...

The Seville European Film Festival is taking a step toward mainstreaming animation, integrating animated titles throughout its lineup rather than cordoning them off in a single strand. The strategy ...

Nearly half of young people prefer animation over live action, according to the Get Reel: Teens and Screens 2025 report from UCLA’s Center for Scholars & Storytellers (CSS). The research, based on a ...

Apple’s latest iOS 26 beta introduces faster app launch animations, trimming around 150 milliseconds from the process for a noticeably snappier feel. The update, expected to arrive with the iPhone 17 ...

Why it matters: For decades, JPEG, PNG, and GIF have remained among the most popular image formats, even as newer options like WebP and AVIF have emerged. Now, PNG is getting its first meaningful ...

The new feature of Google Photos has been detected in the Google Photos v7.35 build. Thanks to the new feature called Remix Video, users will be able to turn their still images into animated videos ...

NYU Tisch's UGFTV Program was included in The Hollywood Reporter's inaugural list of America’s Top Animation Schools. Schools were selected based on survey responses from ASIFA-Hollywood, the ...

A.I. has yet to upend Hollywood. But it is starting to make big inroads in animation. The founders of Toonstar, a small animation studio in downtown Los Angeles, have incorporated A.I. at various ...

Packed with high-end rendering and AI-driven animation, ‘Ne Zha 2’ has earned recognition as one of China’s most technologically advanced animated productions For the longest time, Hollywood dominated ...

The Shrek 5 animation change has sparked intense discussion among fans ever since the teaser dropped. While audiences eagerly anticipate the return of Shrek and his companions, many have noticed a ...

An unruly Chinese boy who battles dragons and defies destiny has made his way to Western cinema screens after smashing box office records in China. “Ne Zha 2,” an animated blockbuster loosely based on ...