TAAFI 2026 Returns with Expansive Program Running April 8-12
The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International is coming to the TIFF Lightbox with over 100 animated films and an expanded focus on industry access, education, and career development.
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We’re Off to See the VFX: Pablo Helman Talks ‘Wicked: For Good’
The four-time Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor discusses his work on Jon M. Chu’s tour de force 2-part adaptation of the 2003 hit Broadway musical, touching on previs, capturing action in-camera, new AI production tools, and how no matter what, you have to work with what the director shot; now streaming on Peacock.
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Meat Dept. Joins Psyop Global Creative Network
The French directing collective brings to the company a hybrid AI-driven and handcrafted production approach rooted in research and technical development.
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Boris FX Acquires Vegas Pro, Sound Forge, and Acid Pro
The acclaimed VFX developer bolsters its award-winning product family with popular professional video editing, content creation, and audio applications.
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The Animation Value Reset
Reassessing your worth in the age of AI.
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IvyBears Launches AI-Animated Children’s TV Series
European vitamin gummy brand expands into entertainment with what it claims is the first children’s TV series produced through an AI-driven animation pipeline, with episodes debuting in April.
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Adobe Firefly Introduces Quick Cut AI Video Feature for First-Cut Assembly
The new tool allows editors to use natural language prompts to assemble uploaded or generated footage into a structured first draft within the Firefly video editor.
Bria Expands Integration with Toon Boom, Named HPA Awards Finalist
The visual generative AI platform announced its latest availability across major creative tools, including the leading 2D animation software platform.
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Foundry Acquires Griptape AI Orchestration Platform
Leading industry software developer completes deal for technology that helps users accelerate and expand secure, production-ready model integration across professional VFX and animation workflows.
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'Thanksgiving Day' Takes Top Prize at Frame Forward AI Animated Film Festival
Kazakhstani filmmaker Igor Alferov’s short earns national theatrical run through Screenvision Media and immersive expansion via Modern Uprising Studios’ Celeste engine.
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Hollywood Swiftly Condemns ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 AI Video Creation Model
The Chinese tech giant today says it will strengthen safeguards to prevent unauthorized IP and likeness use, though how, and how quickly, were not announced.
Chronicle Studios, The Hive Studio Form YouTube Partnership on 2 Animated Series
The AI media technology company has teamed with the Oscar-nominated animation studio to manage streaming audience discovery and monetization for the goth musical comedy ‘The Vampair’ and teen comedy ‘The Normal MFer.’
AI-pocalypse Now: The Animation Moat is Vanishing
AI animation is reaching studio quality. A Disney veteran thinks that’s all for the good.
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Adobe Expands Firefly with Unlimited Image and Video Generations
The company’s creative AI platform now offers unlimited image and video generations for subscribers, increasing access across its web, mobile, and collaborative tools.
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Frame Forward Animated AI Film Festival Names 3 Finalists
Nominees ‘The Pillar,’ ‘Thanksgiving Day,’ and ‘So Close Yet So Far’ will each receive exclusive supplemental prize packages from Google, Weavy, and Lighthouse; winner to receive national theatrical release; Google’s Neil Parris joins jury.
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Beyond Generation: Hyper3D.AI CTO Zhang Qixuan on Rodin Gen-2 Edit and the Future of 3D AI Workflows
Following the launch of Rodin Gen-2 Edit - the world’s first true 3D GenAI editing platform - Hyper3D.AI CTO Zhang Qixuan discusses the shift from one-shot generation to iterative professional workflows, exploring the ethics, challenges, and opportunities within this groundbreaking frontier of 3D GenAI technology.
Creators Coalition on AI Forms to Protect Human Creativity
Guided by 4 core pillars, the agnostic convening organization has reached broad alignment on a set of principles for responsibly implementing AI across the entertainment industry – growing list of signatories include Guillermo Del Toro, Domee Shi, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
How AI is Rewriting VFX Pipelines
Animated Company founder and CEO Douglas McGinness III examines how AI tools are reshaping traditional visual effects workflows, from concept design and previs through roto, matchmove, and final delivery, while raising critical questions about authorship, copyright, and the preservation of storytelling craft.
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Masterpiece X Launches WorldEngen AI Copilot
Built for real 3D production workflows, the program unifies fragmented generative AI tools into a single copilot editor for building production-ready 3D scenes.
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Emmy Winning Pixar Vet Stephan Bugaj Releases ‘The Seeker’ AI-Generated Film
The sci-fi feature, which follows a deep-space scavenger who is visited by a mysterious stranger, was created using Generative AI for all visuals and music, as well as all voices except for 2; now available at Genvid.
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Adobe, Runway Partner For Next Generation of AI Video
Adobe will serve as generative AI video company’s preferred API creativity partner to offer creators exclusive early access to new models, starting with Gen-4.5; now available in the Adobe Firefly app.
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Ugly Mugs and AI Gone Wrong in ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 - Lost in New Jersey’
In Paramount Picture’s animated short, a mysterious company run by an AI Robot, Chrome Dome, seeks to profit off the boy’s new hero status… with cheap, twisted, and lame looking toys that barely resemble the team.
Adobe Firefly Introduces New AI Video Tools, Partner Models
New Prompt to Edit controls allow users to make precise edits and remove details from generated content using text; video upscaling with Topaz Astra added; the full beta of Firefly video editor has also launched.
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Chaos Delivers Maya, Houdini, Real-Time Rendering and AI Tools to Blender
New V-Ray updates include a host of new features and functionality that aim to accelerate playblasts, previs, and lookdev for professional VFX and animation teams.
Wētā FX, AMD Partner to Develop Next-Generation VFX Tools
The 2 giants have signed an MOU to explore the development of new rendering and AI tools aimed at optimizing visual effects production workflows.
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