Tag: Maya
How the Wild Child Animation Flock Powered ‘Piripenguins’ Hybrid Style with Unreal
Wild Child Animation is pulling back the curtain on the technical and creative innovations behind Piripenguins, the new children’s comedy created by series director...
‘Grand Prix of Europe’ Director Waldemar Fast Explains the Film’s Route from Theme Park to Big Screen Adventure
Zooming in from Germany’s MACK Animation and directed by filmmaker Waldemar Fast, the family adventure Grand Prix of Europe is accelerating onto screens worldwide...
A Little Night Magic: ‘In Your Dreams’ Director Alex Woo & Team Uncover the Beautifully Crafted Netflix Movie
“I wanted to show that, like life, dreams can have a dark side to them. If you focus too much on them, you can...
Haunted by Goya: ‘The Quinta’s Ghost’s’ Director and Producer Discuss Their Award-Winning Short (Exclusive Clip)
Celebrated Spanish artist Francisco Goya is considered one the most important painters of the late 18th and early 19th century. His haunting work captured...
‘A Mouse Hunt for Christmas’: How Expanse Squeaked Out a VFX-Fueled Romp in Time for the Holidays
Starting next week, Norwegian audiences will be the first to dive into the mouse-vs.-human hilarity of A Mouse Hunt for Christmas (Hvis ingen går i...
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)...
All the Right Moves: Cottonwood Media’s ’20 Dance Street’ Prepares to Take the Stage
Among the new animated projects debuting at the fall markets this year is Cottonwood Media’s stunning production 20 Dance Street, a beautifully crafted CG-animated...
Tech Reviews: Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 20, Autodesk’s Maya MotionMaker
DaVinci Resolve 20
Blackmagic has officially released DaVinci Resolve 20, and the list of additions and augmentations is huge. Since I’ll never be able to...
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...
‘Windy Day’ Creators Discuss the Making of Their SIGGRAPH Award Winner
This year’s winner of the Jury’s Choice Award at SIGGRAPH is Jour de Vent (Windy Day), a wordless poetic short about various people encountering...
‘Trash’ Student Directors Discuss the Making of Their SIGGRAPH Prize-Winning Short
When ESMA (France’s École Spéciale de Mécanique et d'Electricité) students Maxime Crançon and Matteo Durand set out to make their graduation project in the...
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...
Fish Tale: ‘Tiddler’ Producer Barney Goodland Reflects on the Making of Magic Light’s Swimming CG Special
Ever since Michael Rose and Martin Pope first collaborated on an adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s book The Gruffalo back in 2009,...
A Song of Resilience: ‘The Last Whale Singer’ Director Reza Memari Takes Us on a Deep Dive into the New Animated Feature
Over 15 years ago, German-Iranian filmmaker Reza Memari was watching a documentary about humpback whales and discovered that the giant mammals have actual singers...
How ‘Forevergreen’ Directors Nathan Engelhardt & Jeremy Spears Planted the Seeds of Their Award-Winning Short (Exclusive)
The new animated short Forevergreen, directed by Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears, is among the several noteworthy shorts screening at the Annecy International Animation...
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...
Director Jamy Wheless Discusses the Compassionate Creativity Behind ‘Andy: A Dog’s Tale’
Andy: A Dog’s Tale, an award-winning short film directed by Jamy Wheless, a veteran ILM animator best known for his work on Yoda, Hulk and...
‘Dandelion’ Director Zhengwu Gu Discusses the Inspirations Behind the Award-Winning Ringling Short
First completed in 2023, Zhengwu Gu and Ling Zhao’s animated short Dandelion is set in a cold dystopian world in which a coal-burning robot...
Autodesk Reveals Updates to Media & Entertainment Collection
Autodesk is making crowd tools more accessible, integrating AI to strengthen tools and enhancing Flow-connected workflows, in the latest release of its Design &...
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...
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