Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every Pixar movie has introduced its own technical problems, from Hank's tentacle animation in "Finding Dory" to the intense ...

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London-based startup Latent Technology has raised $2.1 million to build the next-generation animation technology for virtual worlds and game characters. The startup uses AI-based animation technology ...

Pixar's "Elio" takes an 11-year-old boy, eager to be abducted by aliens, on the adventure of a lifetime when he's beamed up to the Communiverse, an otherworldly interplanetary space station filled ...

Epic Games has acquired Cubic Motion, a provider of automated performance-driven facial animation technology for video games, film, broadcast, and immersive experiences such as virtual reality. Cubic ...

“In the good old days… It took 500 artists five years to make a world class animated movie. I think it won’t take 10% of that… that will likely mean drastic cuts in the number of people needed to ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations ...

With an eye toward accelerating digital human production, Epic Games — creator of 'Fortnite' and developer of the Unreal gaming engine also used in Hollywood for real-time “virtual production” — has ...

In today’s high-tech world, there are as many ways to make an animated film as there are film genres. Each year’s top animated features span everything from family fare to real-life documentaries and ...