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Incredible viral animation traps a girl in a social media banner

Remember that stunning animation in which an anime girl breaks the fourth wall and trashes Blender's UI? It went viral back ...

Animation From Latin America, Spain and Portugal in the Throes of a Techological Revolution

One of the upbeat narratives at this year's Ventana Sur market will kick in on Dec. 2 as animators, backed by Ibermedia Next, will talk about how they are using digital tools to free up and mix 2D and ...
Digital Production

Shapekeys: The angle on your mesh

CamKeys automates ShapeKeys by camera angle in Blender. Users say it mimics per-object FOV , the docs say it drives morphs.
Comicbook.com

4 Star Wars Animation Characters That We Still Need in Live-Action

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook First appearing in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Hondo Ohnaka is the quintessential galactic ...
CNET

300,000 Character Poses in an AI Instant: My Visit to Disney Was a Peek at Animation's New Reality

Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to California in 2019. She holds degrees in law and communications, and currently writes news, analysis and features for CNET across ...
Los Angeles Times

In the lovely ‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain,’ a child awakens to worldly connection

It’s the one-two punch of an earthquake and a piece of scrumptious white chocolate from Belgium, a country famous for its sweet confections, that awakens 2½-year-old Amélie (voiced by Loïse ...
CNN

After a wave of lawsuits, Character.AI will no longer let teens chat with its chatbots

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains discussion of suicide. Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the ...
Variety

‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ Wins Grand Jury Prize at Animation Is Film Festival

“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain” has won the Grand Jury Prize at the 8th annual Animation Is Film Festival. The features jury said, “Showing us the world from the perspective of a toddler, ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ Review: Animated French Charmer Portrays the Magic and Terror of Early Childhood

Directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han adapt Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb's bestselling autobiographical novel, which follows a 2-year-old girl growing up in Japan in the 1960s. By Jordan Mintzer ...
PC Gamer

Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters

Nvidia has announced that its Audio2Face animation technology is going open source. On paper, that should make it much easier for a wide range of game developers to create AI characters with ...
FirstShowing.net

Lovely US Trailer for 'Little Amélie or the Character of Rain' Animation

"You were the only one who saw who I really was." This film! GKids has unveiled the official US trailer for Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, also known as just Little Amélie, a beautiful ...
GitHub

AutoWalker – Blender Addon

AutoWalker is a Blender addon designed to automatically add movement to walk or run animations. It simplifies the process of adding motion for characters based on existing walk/run cycles. Just ...