For the first time, global technology and software company Autodesk has teamed up with Disney and Lucasfilm to launch a month-long contest for people (ages 18 and up) to design their own droid using Autodesk software: Maya, 3ds Max or Fusion. The contest will celebrate and the designers and makers of Star Wars — as well as […]

S.S. Rajamouli is bringing his flair for epic action and fantasy to a new adult animated series for Disney+ Hotstar in India, Baahubali: Crown of Blood, based on his hit live-action film franchise. Rajamouli is the director of numerous Indian blockbuster films, including international breakout RRR, which grossed $166.6 million worldwide and won numerous...

L.A.’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, approaching its third anniversary this fall, is inviting visitors to discover the moviemaking magic of animation and VFX through the rotating exhibit Inventing Worlds & Characters, opening May 12 in the Rolex Gallery. Part of the museum’s core Stories of Cinema exhibition, Inventing Worlds and Characters...

JangaFX’s GeoGen GeoGen is a terrain generator from JangaFX, the scrappy team that brought us EmberGen. Like EmberGen, GeoGen is focused on real-time, GPU-accelerated performance. So to understand this tool, you just need to imagine Gaea, Terragen or World Builder — but a lot faster. The workflow for terrain generation in GeoGen is similar to […]

The Animation Time Machine has just returned from its latest mission to the year 1924, gathering snippets of animation news from exactly 100 years ago!   During this month’s time-hopping excursion to May 1924, the Animation Time Machine did a quick survey of some of the cartoons playing in movie theaters during that month. They […]

Animafest Zagreb has announced the selected films for its Grand Competition – Short Film section, which guarantees Oscar qualification to its Grand Prix winner. This year, the jury will choose form among 35 films representing 23 countries of production, including three local Croatian works. Seven films will celebrate their world premiere at Animafest,...