Planetary scientist James O'Donoghue created an animation that shows our solar system's planets rotating in a single globe The globe shows slices of the best parts of each planet The animation ...

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 ...

The graphical fidelity of games these days is truly astounding, but one thing their creators struggle to portray is the variety and fluidity of human motion. An animation system powered by a neural ...

Computer animation has come a long way since the first Toy Story movie. Last week, Pixar offered a rare behind-the-scenes look at the sophisticated system used on Brave and Monsters University. As ...

A new paper authored by researchers from Disney Research and several universities describes a new approach to procedural speech animation based on deep learning. The system samples audio recordings of ...

Lone Echo, Ready At Dawn’s upcoming space-based VR game, employs a physics-based movement system where the player pushes and pulls themselves around a zero-gravity environment. A video presented at ...

At last week’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Pixar’s keynote address included a rare demo of the studio’s proprietary animation program, called Presto. Pixar developed the system for the 2012 ...

Tired of the slow pace of animation production? A new tool is on hand — literally — to help speed things up. Mr. Puppet Animation System is the brainchild of Thinko, a young New York studio with a ...

Electronic Arts has filed a patent for a new approach to facial modeling and animation that’s intended to heighten realism. Crafting lifelike human models capable of authentically emoting has been a ...