Facial animation technology firm Image Metrics has acquired avatar technology company Character-FX. Character-FX operates an integrated facial rigging tool-set for Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max, created ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3D character animation pioneer Mixamo today announced the launch of Face Plus, a technology that brings facial animations to 3D characters with just a ...

Computer gaming and animation represent a dynamic nexus where cutting‐edge technology meets artistic practice. This interdisciplinary field encompasses the design of interactive digital environments, ...

So you’ve built your Gothic castle-it’s time for your hero to dash into play and defend the battlements. Your gaming engine supports skeletons, an animation system called Inverse Kinematics (IK), and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As it is with every form of technology, animation and CGI quickly rose to new heights. The entry from 2025 on this list is enough ...

Facial animation and performance capture represent a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of computer graphics, machine learning, and human–computer interaction. This discipline focuses on ...

Character Animator, a software packaged with Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite, is getting an update. A host of new features coming to the software can now be trialed in public beta mode. Since its launch ...

We take seamless computer animation for granted these days. It’s hard not to when it’s growing increasingly difficult to decipher between reality and various simulated worlds. But computer animation ...

From cel animation to stop motion and 3D, the best animation styles can captivate audiences, but which one is for you?

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We’ve seen King Kong on film before – several times – but not like this. In past outings, the famous ape has been achieved with stop motion, full and partial scale animatronics, and via motion capture ...