When you feel your Microsoft PowerPoint needs a little something extra to liven up lengthy corporate lingo, stolid terminology or long product descriptions, the software's included animations may just ...

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 ...

Character animation and motion synthesis have evolved into a multidisciplinary field at the nexus of computer graphics, biomechanics, and artificial intelligence. The field aims to generate ...

One of the most valuable capabilities that Seedance 2.0 offers animators is the ability to generate character-specific reference footage. Rather than needing to find human reference footage and then ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Omar Gomet Character design in animation is a way to tell stories. That can be with an ...

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 ...

What goes into designing an animated character you’ll love watching for an hour and a half — and remember forever. We hear from three of this year’s contenders, Albert Lozano from Pixar, Nick… ...

—Animation patterns will become variable! In previous RPG Maker titles at its default state, character animations were limited to a maximum of three patterns due to various design limitations. In RPG ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Gerui Wang writes about AI, society, media, and culture. “Traditional pipelines for facial animation often involve complex, ...

Skit!, the comedy animation app that TechCrunch first met at Disrupt NY, is ramping up its monetization strategy with sponsored product placements. The latest one is timed to Pacific Rim’s Blu-Ray ...

Comic book artists and animators often use posable mannequins or motion capture to help get tricky action postures just right, but transferring the figures to paper or computer screens still involves ...