Tag: Blender
Triumphant Trio: The 2025 Student Academy Award Animation Winners Discuss Their Diverse Films
“A man walks into a bar…” This classic line might be the setup for one of the oldest jokes in the world, but this...
‘Decorado’ Director Alberto Vázquez Introduces Us to His Animals in Existential Crisis
“The current global situation is very disturbing: wars, hyperconnectivity, polarization, artificial intelligence, megalomaniac leaders, mega-corporations that control everything. I think Decorado is a contemporary...
Flights for Survival: David Baute’s ‘Black Butterflies’ Animates Three Eye-Opening Climate Refugee Stories
The Annecy Festival Contrechamp prize-nominated feature Black Butterflies (Mariposas Negras) spotlights the plight of climate refugees from different regions of the world who have...
Tech Reviews: SynthEyes 2025, Marvelous Designer & Houdini 21
Boris FX’s SynthEyes 2025.5
Boris FX has rolled out SynthEyes 2025.5, and while it isn’t a complete reinvention of the matchmoving (camera tracking in VFX)...
Tech Reviews: Chaos’s V-Ray for Blender, Wacom’s Cintiq Touch Line
V-Ray for Blender
Chaos Group’s V-Ray for Blender brings the power of a production-proven renderer to the open-source 3D community. While Blender users have long...
‘Piggy Builders’ Director & Xilam CCO Share the Inspirations for the Preschool Pig Tales
Since launching across commissioning broadcasters BBC CBeebies (U.K.), France Télévisions (France) and ZDF (Germany), Piggy Builders has been working on the construction of its preschool...
KitBash3D and Greyscalegorilla Announce Merger
Today, KitBash3D, a pioneer in 3D asset kits for films and games, and Greyscalegorilla, creator of some of the most popular motion design plugins...
Autodesk Launches ‘Freemium’ Access to Flow Studio AI Solution
Today at SIGGRAPH 2025, Autodesk launched new, more affordable pricing for Autodesk Flow Studio (formerly Wonder Studio) including its first free tier and a 50% price drop for...
Watch: ‘Boys Go to Jupiter’ Gasses Up for Theatrical Release with New Clip
Next week, Cartuna and Irony Point kick off the release for Julian Glander’s surreal animated coming-of-age comedy Boys Go to Jupiter. The Blender-animated indie...
Chaos Releases V-Ray for Blender
Chaos is launching V-Ray for Blender, bringing its Emmy and Academy Award-winning rendering technology to one of the world’s most widely used 3D creation...
Director Celia Catunda Offers a Sneak Peek at Pinguim’s New Movie, ‘My Grandfather Is a Nihonjin’
Among the many international animated features being unveiled at this year's Annecy Festival is My Grandfather Is a Nihonjin, a beautiful 2D-animated feature about...
Four Major Euro Broadcasters Board ‘A Lamb’s Stew’ Animated Special
La Cabane and Thuristar have announced that four major European broadcasters have signed up for the 3D animation special A Lamb’s Stew: Canal+ in...
Flower Power: ‘Dandelion’s Odyssey’ Director Momoko Seto Discusses Her Emotional Animated Adventure
EXCLUSIVE: You know you’re in for a treat when the main characters in an animated movie are dandelion seeds, firefly squids, a giant tree...
Andy Serkis Joins Cast of ‘A Lamb’s Stew’ Animated Special
La Cabane and Thuristar have announced the addition of Andy Serkis to the cast of their upcoming animated television special, A Lamb's Stew (26 min.,...
PVP Media’s Francois Trudel Introduces Us to the Colorful Gnomes of ‘Woolly Woolly’
Earlier this month, a playful group of “tightly knit” gnomes began their adventures in the preschool show Woolly Woolly across Canada’s TVOkids. Prodouced PVP...
Educating Artists about AI in Animation
How five higher education courses in different universities are teaching students about new applications of artificial intelligence in their fields.
Every week now, we hear...
State of the Art: Focus on Five Major Motion Design Trends in 2025
By Ronny Young
Every time I’m asked to predict how our field will evolve in the year ahead, I smile to myself, recalling — of...
Latvia’s ‘Flow’ and Iran’s ‘In the Shadow of the Cypress’ Win Best Animated Feature and Short Oscars
The Latvian animated feature Flow has won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. The dialogue-free feature by Gints Zilbalodis, which debuted at the Cannes...
Consuming Consequences: Anémona Studio’s Henedy Macias Discusses Her Animated Oxfam Spot ‘Inequality Destroys Everything’
Mexico City-based Anémona Studio recently completed an animated short film for Oxfam, titled Inequality Destroys Everything. Inspired by the beloved works of Studio Ghibli,...
‘Boys Go to Jupiter’ Director Julian Glander Gives Us the Scoop on His Out-of-This World Animated Musical
Among the many animated gems unspooling at festivals such as Tribeca and Ottawa this year was artist Julian Glander’s self-produced feature, Boys Go to Jupiter....
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