Crunchyroll Drops ‘Dr. STONE New World’ Trailer and Premiere Date
Based on the manga series by Riichiro Inagaki, illustrated by Boichi, and serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, Dr. STONE follows the extraordinarily intelligent, science-driven boy, Senku Ishigami as he wakes up…
Epic Games Unveils Metahuman Animator, A Potential Game Changer For Automated Facial Animation And Lip Sync
And here’s the five-minute real-time demo from the State of Unreal keynote at GDC that explains how it all works: Here’s a look at what Metahuman Animator generates: Epic Games has unveiled a new module of its Metahuman platform called…
Matt Youngberg On The Cartoon Antics In His New Skydance Short ‘Bad Luck Spot’
The short is directed by Matt Youngberg, best known for developing and showrunning Disney’s recent Ducktales reboot, as well as directing episodes of Teen Titans, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and Transformers: Animated. Cartoon Brew: What were your…
Marcel Ziul and State Offer “An Invitation to Look Inside” With OFFF 2023 Titles
“In general, matrices are experiential patterns, worlds with specific parameters and unique characteristics. They define the way in which a person sees themselves, the world, and everything that exists. Therefore, we are always under the influence…
Material Focus’ Hypnocat Says Recycle Your Electricals
Agency: Truant LondonCreative Director: David GambleCreative Team: Charlie Lindsay & George BartlettDesigner: Emily ForresterProducer: Chris WilliamsHead of Music: Jemma SkidmoreMusic Supervisor: Luke GeorgiouAccount Director: Eloise ThompsonAccount…
‘We Lost Our Human’: Unpacking Netflix’s Largest Ever Interactive Special
Today is a historic day for Netflix, as the platform has released its largest interactive special to date: We Lost Our Human. He continues, “And we had an order to it so we couldn’t just branch off in a million different directions and…
Watch: The Making Of The Norwegian Hand-Drawn Feature ‘Titina’ With Director Kajsa Næss – Exclusive
As you say in the video, it’s hard to say how much of the story is truth and how much is myth. What kinds of considerations did you make when deciding how to tell this story? Were there any parts of the film that were particularly difficult to…
Illo Keeps it Light for Found Weight Loss App
Creative directors Cristina Pasquale and Ilenia Notarangelo at Illo in Turin, Italy: “Found is not just a doctor-led weight loss app, but a platform offering a new lifestyle. It provides clinical treatment as well as coaching for issues related to…
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Signe Baumane
This week’s subject is Latvian-born American animator, Signe Baumane. Influences: Says Baumane: My work is a combination of these two contradicting influences – the serious, moody, artsy Eastern European with upbeat, funny, gag-based American…
Robin Hollander Talks ‘Cocaine Bear,’ Wētā FX’s New Favorite Project
As Hollander and his crew built Cokey’s 3D model, they also started building the animation rig inside the model, which allowed the animators to work on all of Cokey’s movements. Which was good because cocaine is certainly not the only…
Brand New School Demystifies Photoshop for the Masses
CCO and director Jonathan Notaro at Brand New School in NY: “While we have partnered with Adobe on various projects over the years, this was an opportunity to work with them on ground-up creative concepts and take them through production. Posted on…
Preymaker Continues to Grow with Addition of Clairellen Wallin and Mike Pullan
Creative and technology studio Preymaker, the company behind some of the past year’s most innovative work including award-winning original short film BLUE created in the cloud using Unreal Engine’s real-time technology, and the…
Disney Vet Aaron Blaise Answers The Question: “Is AI Animation Going To Put Me Out Of A Job?”
I don’t think it’s gonna replace animators. In the same way that cameras didn’t replace painters, there’s always gonna be a place for people doing this craft, this art, and doing it in a style that they want. I think it’s…
‘The Magician’s Elephant’: A Child, an Animal, and a Shared Sense of Hope
JP: I read “The Magician’s Elephant” to my children. And, as I read it, I knew this would be a great movie. Children’s books tell the truth, just as Kate is saying. They’re about making sense of the world, and they inspire…
Watch The First Trailer For Dreamworks’ Kaiju-Inspired Coming-Of-Age Feature ‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken,’ Coming June 30
Dreamworks producer Kelly Cooney Cilella pointed out that Teenage Kraken being an entirely new property gave the crew a tremendous amount of freedom when establishing the look at feel of the film: It was important for us to have a lot of women in…
Merlin Flügel’s ITFS 2023 Trailer Goes “Out of Bounds”
Music: Michael Fakesch Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 Fresh from the playful mind of Berlin-based director/animator Merlin Flügel (who dropped this wonderfully strange short in 2021), comes the trailer for the 2023 edition of the Stuttgart…
Crafty Apes Prepares the Main VFX Course on ‘The Menu’
It’s no secret that the restaurant business is ruthless; there was even a Food Network reality show called Cutthroat Kitchen. But an exclusive establishment on a remote island took “cutthroat” to The Most Dangerous Game level in…
Stash 158 Packs Two New Hours of Motion Madness into the Permanent Collection
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2023 Academy Awards: ‘Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, And The Horse,’ ‘Avatar’ Win Oscars
In the weeks leading up to this year’s awards, the eventual winners in all three categories began feeling almost inevitable. Pinocchio and Avatar each won stacks of prizes at key critics’ and craft award ceremonies, and The…
Oscar Voter Admits He Doesn’t ‘Really Give A S**t’ About The Nominated Animation Features
The second Academy member that THR spoke with, a male member of the 867-person short films and feature animation branch, offered a far more troubling answer. This individual said that they voted for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio even though they…
WATCH Final Trailer for ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’
The film is directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic (collaborators on Teen Titans Go!, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies) from a screenplay by Matthew Fogel (Minions: The Rise of Gru, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part). Cybersecurity specialist by…