Bandai Namco Launches Animation Short Film Project With Talent Behind ‘Akira’ & Oscar-Nominated ‘Possessions’

Six short films, which aimi to showcase the future of Japanese animation, involved talent that worked on Akira and ...
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Disney's Imagineers Are Using Adobe's Firefly AI to Dream Up Ride Designs

Disney's Imagineers Are Using Adobe's Firefly AI to Dream Up Ride Designs ...

Disney’s Imagineering Arm Using Adobe’s Firefly AI Models for Park Designs

Disney's Imagineering Research & Development unit is using Adobe’s Firefly Foundry to help Imagineers design and visualize ...

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘I Am Frankelda’ on Netflix, a Stop-Motion Animated Phantasmagoria of Visual Wonders

This Guillermo del Toro-coded (and -guided!) Mexican film offers a bewildering combo of eye candy and convoluted narrative ...
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Amazon Launching AI Creators Fund, Picks Up Three Animated Prime Video Shows That Use Its New Tech

The projects include work from 'Maya and the Three’ director Jorge Gutierrez, former Nickelodeon exec Albie Hecht and Buzzfeed Studios. By Katie Kilkenny, Alex Weprin Amazon is embarking on a major ...
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Prime Video Orders Three GenAI Animated Series From New Amazon MGM Studios-AWS Creators’ Fund

Three animated series have received orders by Prime Video via the GenAI Creators’ Fund, a new joint initiative of Amazon Web Services and Amazon MGM Studios. The projects are Cupcake & Friends from ...
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20 words we use daily that actually came from cartoons

Pop culture's impact on the ever-evolving world of language cannot be overstated. How words enter the lexicon is often a reflection of the times, with particular words becoming popular for capturing ...
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SCAIL-2: Unifying Controlled Character Animation with End-to-end In-Context Conditioning

SCAIL-1 identifies the key bottlenecks that hinder character animation towards production level: how to represent the pose and how to inject the pose. However, the reliance on intermediate pose ...