The winners of yesterday evening’s British Animation Awards at London’s BFI Southbank have been announced. The big winner was Lupus Films’ hand-drawn animated feature film Kensuke’s Kingdom adapted from the classic adventure story by Michael Morpurgo about a boy shipwrecked on a seemingly-deserted island, won Best Feature, the Writers Award for Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Best Original Music for composer Stuart […]
On the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, there’s only one ball sport to be talking about, and that’s basketball They have had to wait eight years for the technology to catch up, but at the NBA’s 2024 All-Star weekend at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the Celebrity Game (Friday 16 February) and the Saturday […]
For those of you who are less familiar with this aspect of content origination, motion or performance capture is the term most commonly used to describe the digital capture of movement of an object or person. The most common forms of modern motion capture systems Magnetic – The performer wears sensors at key points of the […]
The short film below shows how Disney’s Once Upon A Studio, made to celebrate the animation studio’s 100th. birthday, progressed through the various departments before it found its way onto our screens. This one shows some of the film’s many traditional animators demonstrating their craft. And this one shows the work of the voice cast. […]
The 4-day hybrid event will return to Stuttgart from 23 to 26 April with sessions available to watch on demand from 27 April until 31 May – fmx.de VFX in Loki Season 2 – Christopher Smallfield from Trixter on bending space & time stylised animation – Daniel Damm shares secrets on stylized animation insights on improving production […]
From the start of 2024, 95 years after it was created, Disney’s original Mickey Mouse character, as seen in the 1928 short Steamboat Willie (below), passes into the public domain and becomes free to use. However, anybody thinking about doing something with the world’s ost famous rodent should read Disney’s fine print before getting underway. […]