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 […]
For its contribution to shaping today’s filmmaking industry, Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) has been honoured by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a prestigious Academy Scientific and Engineering Award. OpenUSD’s developers are F. Sebastian Grassia, Alex Mohr, Sunya Boonyatera, Brett Levin, and Jeremy Cowles. The Academy Awards for Scientific and Technical Achievements […]
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 […]
The designers and engineers behind the Universal Scene Description (USD) framework, F. Sebastian Grassia, Alex Mohr, Sunya Boonyatera, Brett Levin, and Jeremy Cowles, have together won one of 2024’s Scientific and Technical Academy Awards. Some of 2024’s other Scientific and Technical Academy Award winners James Eggleton and Delwyn Holroyd “for the design, implementation and integration of the High-Density […]
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. […]