Tag: Maya
‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ Directors Discuss Their Ecologically-Themed Annecy Premiere (Exclusive Interview)
The new animated feature Kensuke’s Kingdom is one of the many highly anticipated features making their debut at the Annecy Festival this month. Based...
‘Rally Road Racers’: A Wacky Ride for the Underdogs
When writer-director Ross Venokur was growing up, he loved to watch screwball comedies like Cannonball Run, Smokey and the Bandit and It’s a Mad,...
E.D. Films’ 10-Year Project ‘Return to Hairy Hill’ to Premiere at Montreal Animation Summit
After nearly a decade in development, E.D. Films’ ambitious, experimental animated short film Return to Hairy Hill (a.k.a. Retour à Hairy Hill) will make its debut...
Pixar Releases RenderMan 25 with Advanced Denoising
Pixar Animation Studios today released version 25 of RenderMan, its award-winning technology for rendering animation and visual effects. The latest version features advanced denoising...
Crafting a CG Animal Menagerie for Apple TV+’s ‘Jane’ (Exclusive Clip)
We’ve learned to expect excellence when we see Dr. Jane Goodall’s name attached to a project. That’s certainly the case with Apple TV+’s new...
TeamTO Composes Animated Moments in Music History in ‘Behind the Beats’
French studio TeamTO has launched another chart topper: an animated pop music docuseries racking up views on YouTube and France Televisions. Behind the Beats (26...
Showrunner Jay Oliva on Expanding a Video Game Fantasy in ‘RAID: Call of the Arbiter’
Recently, billion-dollar fantasy RPG strategy title RAID: Shadow Legends unveiled an expanded, animated universe which was about to unfold in the original animated series...
Toon Tips: Using Video Reference to Enhance Natural Acting for Animation
The process of using video reference is a crucial part of the planning phase in animation. Whether it is to understand the real-world physics...
Ynput Launches Early Access to AYON Open-Source Animation & VFX Pipeline
Prague-based creative pipeline software specialist Ynput (previously known as PYPE Club) has announced the early access release of AYON, an open-source pipeline platform to...
‘Fox and Hare Save the Forest’: A Sneak Peek at Submarine’s Friendship-Fueled Adventure
Flemish author Sylvia Vanden Heede’s charming children’s books have been lauded for their memorable forest friends (Fox, Hare and Owl) and the beautiful illustrations...
Scaling Fantastic Heights for Upcoming Spanish-Chinese Feature, ‘Dragonkeeper’
Amid the flight patterns of popular entertainment, fans have an insatiable appetite for dragons — whether they’re scaled or feathered, fire-belching or water-spouting, airborne...
‘My Dad the Bounty Hunter’: Meet the New Space-Age Family
For those privileged enough to engage with the experience, parenthood exists as the ultimate portal for reconnecting with one’s inner child. The energetic duo...
Watch: AnimSchool Studios’ Offers a Peek at Wild, Wild ‘MechWest’
The talented team at AnimSchool Studios has delivered a great-looking pilot for their new CG-animated action-adventure series titled MechWest. The imaginative new show takes...
Watch ‘The Voice in the Hollow’: An African Horror-Fable Powered by Unreal Engine
The dangers of jealousy and ambition are laid bare in the atmospheric, supernatural new mixed-technique animated short The Voice in the Hollow — a texturally rich...
Behind the Scenes of ThePack’s First Animated Feature Made in a Game Engine
This year, we at ThePack released our first theatrical animation film fully rendered in a game engine: Journey to Yourland. The film is produced...
How ‘Canary’ Directors Dallaire & Therriault Let Their Animated Vision Soar
The classic story of "the boy who cried wolf" is refitted into a modern, CG-animated tale of unlikely friendship and tragic loss in Canary,...
Magic Light’s ‘The Smeds and the Smoos’ Animates a Star-Crossed Alien Tale (NEW TRAILER)
***This article originally appeared in the January '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 326)***
Over the past decade, TV audiences in the U.K. have grown...
Ragdoll Dynamics 3.0 Adds Real-Time Character Physics Animators Can Steer Like a Puppeteer
Imbalance today releases Ragdoll Dynamics 3.0, giving animators an easy way to automate character physics in Maya. Animators can now create believable, nuanced animation...
‘Reindeer in Here’ Director Lino DiSalvo & Author Adam Reed Bring the Next Christmas Classic to CBS
On Tuesday, November 29, CBS will premiere the new one-hour holiday animated special Reindeer in Here. Based on the award-winning Christmas book and plush...
Unreal Engine 5.1 Hits the Scene with Ramped Up Animation, Games & VFX Tools
Epic Games' Unreal Engine 5.1 is available today, building upon the groundbreaking feature set introduced in UE5 to enable even easier and faster 3D...
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