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Any director will tell you that making a film is a challenge, and when you're creating an animation that process can be more complex and fundamentally different from shooting live [...]

New research suggests a smartphone app can replace all the different systems and technologies currently needed to perform motion capture, a process that translates body movements into computer-generated images. The […]

Byline: Issy van der Velde His son has some choice words about how the series has progressed since The voice of Fantastic Four villain Galactus, Ralph Ineson - who also [...]

Byline: LAURA RUTKOWSKI Dan Baybutt studied computer animation at the University of Portsmouth and learnt the ropes of motion capture at the studio there. He's now a post-production supervisor at [...]

Tesla is hiring Data Collection Operators for up to $48 per hour to train its (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-unveils-tesla-bot-humanoid-robot-based-off-autopilot-2021-8) humanoid robot. The role involves wearing motion-capture suits and VR headsets to perform tasks [...]

Byline: Binita Das Attending Annecy Festival's film market MIFA for the second time, Lost Marble experienced a warm reception from attendees who recognised their award-winning animation software, Moho. Known for [...]

Byline: Anshita Bhatt For Elodie Moog and her team from French software company Praxinos, attending Annecy Film Festival this year was a milestone. Just a year ago, Praxinos introduced the [...]

Byline: Anshita Bhatt France's TVPaint Développement has leveraged 33 years of expertise in animation software to devise TVPaint Animation, a renowned 2D animation software that was celebrated at the Annie [...]

Mike Griggs replies For those new to 3D, there are so many things to learn, but one of the most complex can be animation. Even if an artist has a [...]

FOURTEENTH OF THE HILL ARTIST Maxime Schyns SOFTWARE ZBrush, Maya, Substance 3D Painter, Photoshop, RenderMan All told, it took me approximately four weeks to put this enchanting Witcher fan art [...]

1 KAYDARA Liaison's very first client helped to establish the value of interchange standards in VFX pipelines Even if you don't remember Liaison's first client, you'll certainly be aware of [...]

Procreate Dreams is the upcoming standalone animation app for iPad from the creators of the award-winning Procreate, and it could be the best thing to happen to artists in, well, [...]

The article evaluates a range of products including the Revopoint POP 3 scanner, the Shining three-dimensional (3D) Einstar Scanner and the Inspire scanner from Revopoint.

The article evaluates the Houdini 20 computer software from SideFX, used for three-dimensional (3D) animation, Visual Effects (VFX), character rigging, procedural modeling, simulation, game development, and more creative applications.

The article provides step-by-step instructions for the creation of realistic fire in the three-dimensional (3D) software Blender for a fireplace scene, outlining the process of creating a fire model, adjusting simulation parameters, and enhancing the fire effect.

The article provides step-by-step instructions for crafting stylized characters in ZBrush software, covering topics such as character reference placement, anatomy blockout, retopology, clothing creation, shoe sculpting, and final detailing.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for creating expansive cloud fields in Houdini 20 using Skybox, a crucial environment element, and Karma Cloud Shader, a pivotal tool for achieving realistic cloud simulations, by optimizing critical parameters.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for utilizing SideFX's Houdini 20, particularly its Karma for Cross-Platform Utility (XPU), which harnesses the power of both Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) resources.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for using the Houdini software to create realistic bird feathers, including feather base creation, grooming, randomization, and final adjustments.

Byline: AnimationXpress Team Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) has acquired Wonder Dynamics, makers of Wonder Studio which is a cloud-based 3D animation and VFX solution that combines artificial intelligence (AI) with established [...]

Autodesk announced it has acquired Wonder Dynamics, makers of Wonder Studio which is a cloud-based 3D animation and VFX solution that combines artificial intelligence, or AI, with established tools. Wonder [...]

2024 APR 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- According to news reporting based on a preprint abstract, our journalists obtained [...]

Byline: AnimationXpress Team To help promote collaboration and creativity, Autodesk has put connected workflows and time-saving new toolsets at the forefront of the latest development of its Design & Make [...]

Ivanhoe Electric and its subsidiary, Computational Geosciences are pleased to provide an update on CGI's proprietary software applications used to interpret Typhoon data. CGI continually improves its proprietary algorithms, leveraging [...]

2024 MAR 9 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Data detailed on obesity have been presented. According to news reporting originating [...]

PRICE [pounds sterling]480/$595 per year | COMPANY Pixar | WEBSITE renderman.pixar.com Knowing that the journey for Pixar's RenderMan software began 37 years ago feels mind-boggling--but it's still at the top [...]

PRICE [pounds sterling]795/$1,000 | COMPANY LightWave Digital | WEBSITE lightwave3d.com The 2023 release of LightWave was far from guaranteed. Its previous owner, Vizrt, had acquired it from NewTek but suspended [...]

The Rookies is a platform to help digital artists get discovered without having to compete with professionals for attention. You'll get to the front page of those sites one day, [...]

PRICE [pounds sterling]1,725/$2,145 annual | COMPANY Autodesk | WEBSITE autodesk.co.uk/motionbuilder Recent years have seen creative heavyweight Autodesk focus its development efforts on a few products, including 3ds Max and Maya, [...]

2023 SEP 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- According to news reporting based on a preprint abstract, our journalists obtained [...]

Byline: AnimationXpress Team On 27 September 2023, OptiTrack announced the launch of the company's Educational MoCap Program. It is an initiative intended to enhance motion capture (mocap) support for K-12 [...]

2023 SEP 9 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- New study results on stroke have been published. According to news originating [...]

Tottenham's Son Heung-Min's cross - with the slightest brush of a teammate's head - swung into the goal ten minutes into a match against Fulham in September, but VAR revealed [...]

Byline: AnimationXpress Team Academy Award-winning motion capture company Vicon announced a series of senior appointments to accelerate growth and expansion. This includes multiple first-time roles for the business, including chief [...]

Byline: AnimationXpress Team Canada-based Corus Entertainment has sold animation software company Toon Boom Animation for approximately $147.5 million CAD (About US$ 111.72 million) in cash, to a private company. New [...]

2023 JUL 15 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- According to news reporting based on a preprint abstract, our journalists obtained [...]

Byline: AnimationXpress Team Movella, a leading full-stack developer of sensors, software, and analytics enabling the digitisation of movement, partnered with basketball star Jayson Tatum to showcase its high-fidelity motion capture [...]

2023 JUN 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Data detailed on biomimetic intelligence and robotics have been presented. According to [...]

Byline: Jordan Gerblick Ninja Theory's fancy new performance capture tools allow the studio to 'track performers movements down to the millimeter' Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 has impressed me visually from [...]

Byline: Hope Bellingham NIX PUPPET NIX PUPPET NIX PUPPET Yeah, the new sidekick in Star Wars Outlaws is cute, but you should see his mocap puppet. On June 12, we [...]

Artist PROFILE Dan Franke LOCATION: Germany Dan is a director and VR artist based in Germany. He's the co-founder of Studio Syro, a virtual animation studio with an international team [...]

Over the last few years, many industries and technologies have already undergone some form of digital transformation. Thanks to the advantages of cloud computing, the benefits are seemingly endless scalability, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO--Autodesk (www.autodesk.com) has acquired Wonder Dynamics, the maker of Wonder Studio, a cloud-based 3D animation and VFX solution that combines artificial intelligence with established tools. Wonder Studio is compatible [...]

Byline: AnimationXpress Team Digital Kinetics, a new motion capture studio based in Croatia, has become one of the first studios in the world to deploy Vicon's world-leading Valkyrie cameras in [...]

Byline: AnimationXpress Team After being nominated for Most Promising AI Games Tech at the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2023 (MGA) last week, the AI-based keyframe animation software Cascadeur was [...]

Byline: Darren Allan Animations and layers? Yep, you read that right, all coming to the little old Paint app courtesy of clever modders. The Windows 11 (and 10) app Microsoft [...]

Byline: AnimationXpress Team As demand for high-quality content continues to rise, post-production houses are adopting cloud infrastructure and workflows to connect globally dispersed talent and scale for new creative and [...]

Byline: AnimationXpress Team Platige Image, a production and post-production studio, recently launched its new highly advanced motion capture studio. The primary distinguishing feature of the motion capture (Mocap) studio is [...]

Byline: AnimationXpress Team Global audiences expect amazing visual effects every time they watch TV, play a game, or explore the metaverse. As the need for truly immersive content grows, Autodesk [...]

PRICE Available on request | COMPANY Pixar | WEBSITE renderman.pixar.com RenderMan has always been a bit of an enigma in my experience. The fact that it's been used to render [...]