Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of discussion about the convergence of video games and visual effects. Both mediums tend to rely on the same – or similar – tools these days to generate cg ...

Autodesk is pushing the boundaries of the best animation software with FaceAnimator, a new AI-driven tool that generates ...

GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco. Register Now Ninja Theory is making a highly ...

Animotive is a new immersive real-time animation tool that looks to seriously level up collaborative working in VR. Okay, so we’re still going to be mopping up stuff from IBC for a while, but now that ...

Epic Games showed off the realism of Unreal Engine 5 with The Matrix Awakens demo amid a huge computer-generated city. It looked phenomenal, with a completely CG actress Carrie-Ann Moss and a version ...

Computer generated graphics have come a long way in the past several years and are starting to blur the line between animation and real actors. One of the more difficult tasks for CG artists is to ...

Over the years, the SIGGRAPH conference has had to adapt to changes in computer graphics and interactive technologies. One ‘track’ introduced in 2009 was Real-Time Live, designed to showcase ...

On the eve of Yahoo’s announcement to acquire the blogging site, Tumblr staged its first live TV integration with ABC’s “Billboard Music Awards” Sunday night — posting animated GIFs to the site just ...

At GDC 2013 I saw a cool demo at the AMD booth called FaceX. Created by a company called Mixamo, FaceX tracks a player’s face using a standard webcam and can use that data to animate a 3D model in ...

Jay Greene of Cnet has an excellent story up–the first of a two-parter–on Microsoft’s Courier two-screen tablet, which got everyone excited with an animated demo, but was killed before it ever shipped ...