Motion capture can look great or cheap, but these 10 characters represent the best examples of how the technology can bring ...

At around 9:30 a.m., local time, on August 15, the Anaheim Convention Center in California, U.S. A snowman character named ...

Tencent Video pulled back the curtain on its “Warrior Cats” animated series, showing fans early animation and character ...

Turning a video into 3D character motion means extracting the movement of a real performer from ordinary footage and applying ...

Demo reels are an invaluable tool for impressing one’s skills on potential employers. Rarely do they find a much wider audience than that. Mònica Eggert’s new character animation reel is the exception ...

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 ...

It started with a mouse—and thank God they didn’t name him Mortimer. Walt Disney may have whiffed it with the name he originally proposed for Mickey, but his eye for character design was clear from ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

Lisa is a character animator who's been creating animation for games and film for fifteen years. Her craft involves understanding how characters move, breathe, gesture, and express emotion through ...

Being an independent animator naturally comes with a plethora of challenges. Unsteady engagement, lack of funding, having a small or nonexistant animation team, and possibly, never having your work ...

New research from China offers a non-invasive way to protect copyrighted animation characters, by 'injecting' generic ...