Wondering how to create character designs that are ready for animation? I spent two decades doing just at Disney, and in this article I'll share my tricks for making lively characters that jump off ...

Stories are breathed into life by characters. They are evocative, create tension, and move the story along. In digital storytelling, characters hold the ground and focus the viewer, as well as turn ...

Skit!, the comedy animation app that TechCrunch first met at Disrupt NY, is ramping up its monetization strategy with sponsored product placements. The latest one is timed to Pacific Rim’s Blu-Ray ...

Comic book artists and animators often use posable mannequins or motion capture to help get tricky action postures just right, but transferring the figures to paper or computer screens still involves ...

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UK-based post-production animation software developer IKinema has been demoing a natural language interface for controlling animations (demoed in the above video) which CEO Alexandre Pechev reckons ...

When a live Simpsons segment was announced several weeks ago, many speculated about how it would be achieved. Would it be via motion capture? Perhaps a markerless facial animation set-up? Ultimately, ...