The Bones Films production took home the coveted ‘Anime of the Year’ award, while ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle’ was named Film of the Year at the 10th annual awards; 73 million fans worldwide voted on their favorites.
The 90-minute 3DCG film about a misfit team of animal athletes, created with an AI-assisted pipeline that touched every stage of the animation production, hits theaters worldwide on July 24.
A strange, funny, and unexpectedly heartfelt romance unfolds in a rule-breaking, futuristic world bursting with oddball details and creative chaos; from GKIDS, director Yasuhiro Aoki and Studio 4°C, the film hits North American theaters today, April 10.
Blending anime-inspired posing, mixed frame rates, and exaggerated animal-like movement pushed the character design team into new stylistic territory on Sony Pictures Animation’s action-packed animated comedy, now in theaters.
Director Alex Woo and stars Simu Liu, Cristin Milioti, and Craig Robinson go behind-the-scenes to share insights on production design, character design, and the vivid, colorful and ‘dreamy’ worlds of the hit feature, now streaming.
Creators Leeanne M. Krecic, Brandon Lee and producer Heather Horn break down the challenges of collaboration with Japanese studios, from character proportions and redesigns to culture-specific romance cues and etiquette.
Artists on ‘Arcane,’ ‘Love, Death + Robots,’ and ‘Octopus!’ were among those awarded for work in background design, character animation, character design, color, motion design, production design, and storyboarding; winners will be formally announced on September 6 as part of the two-night Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony on September 6-7.
The new, independent collective of visual experts specializes in the development and creation of high-end digital characters, supporting projects across film and episodic content, games, and virtual platforms.
Alex Yee, Jason Chan, Arnaud-Loris Baudry, and Julien Georgel take a deep dive into the expansive and challenging visual development – concept art, background designs, character designs, props and colorscripts – that helped turn a battle royale game into a stunning, compelling, and emotionally driven Netflix series.
Best known for co-founding Spümcø and co-developing the ‘The Ren & Stimpy Show,’ the veteran animator also contributed to ‘Tiny Toon Adventures,’ Batman: The Animated Series,’ ‘Ice Age,’ ‘The Oblongs,’ ‘Over the Garden Wall,’ and many others.
The 3-day annual event returns to the Pasadena Convention Center October 24-26 celebrating the best in live-action, animation, illustration, and gaming with panels, programs, and demos featuring industry leading artists, creators, and studios.
CTN and the CTN Foundation have announced 11 discipline-focused awards named for industry luminaries and 4 awards offered through a new International Creative Exchange Program (ICEP).
ILM VFX supervisor Hayden Jones reveals how his team merged anime styling with cutting-edge visuals including hand-drawn transitions and ‘Akira’-inspired lens flares to create a love letter to classic manga.
An animated pre-production primer for storytellers.
Now available to the public in Beta, the DAZ Studio plug in streamlines 3D character creation.
On their stop-motion short, Amy Fortunato and Andrea Bistany worked with artists from the Down syndrome community, drawing from real life experiences, to craft a compelling story of a man’s journey to overcome obstacles and find his place in the world.
Artists on ‘Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake,’ ‘Blue Eye Samurai,’ ‘Clone High,’ ‘In the Know,’ and ‘Scavengers Reign’ were among those awarded for work in background design, character animation, production design, and storyboarding; winners will be formally recognized as part of the two-night 76th Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony on September 7-8.
Composer Scot Stafford talks about his highly collaborative experience providing the music for Shannon Tindle’s thrilling hit animated film about an egotistical baseball star turned superhero and reluctant parent to a young kaiju, now streaming on Netflix.
The 3-day event returns to Pasadena to celebrate the best in live-action, animation, illustration, and gaming with panels, programs, and demos featuring industry leading artists, creators, and studios; the event runs October 25-27.
Racking up more than two million views and counting, Boston studio Hero4Hire Creative gives the iconic character a makeover for the “Sesame Street Animated Songs” series.
Shannon Tindle’s new 3DCG feature combines breathtaking visual design with a heartfelt story that explores themes of family and identity through the journey of a young athlete, Ken Sato, struggling to balance his life as a baseball star and a giant superhero when suddenly faced with raising a baby kaiju.
Writer/Director Shannon Tindle and co-director John Aoshima talk about the many creative synergies that fueled their journey in bringing a venerable superhero - forced to care for a baby kaiju - to a new generation of viewers; film debuts today on Netflix.
The studio’s move further supports its Canadian clients in VFX, feature animation, and games while tapping local talent.
To celebrate Star Wars Day, the tech leader has announced its May the Fourth campaign, a month-long contest for superfans to design their own droid using Maya, 3ds Max, or Fusion.
New proprietary GenAI integrated toolkit, developed on NVIDIA Omniverse, is designed for development, production, and post-production of new animated content as well as upgrading existing catalogs.
