Roger Rose, a character animator-turned-artist is having an exhibit of his work at the Northcoast Artists Gallery from June ...

Lisa is a character animator who's been creating animation for games and film for fifteen years. Her craft involves understanding how characters move, breathe, gesture, and express emotion through ...

When a live Simpsons segment was announced several weeks ago, many speculated about how it would be achieved. Would it be via motion capture? Perhaps a markerless facial animation set-up? Ultimately, ...

So you’ve built your Gothic castle-it’s time for your hero to dash into play and defend the battlements. Your gaming engine supports skeletons, an animation system called Inverse Kinematics (IK), and ...

Gematsu recently sat down with Toshiyuki Kubooka, the character designer and animation director behind the LUNAR series, to discuss the remastered editions of LUNAR: Silver Star Story and LUNAR: ...

Demo reels are an invaluable tool for impressing one’s skills on potential employers. Rarely do they find a much wider audience than that. Mònica Eggert’s new character animation reel is the exception ...

Bugs, Bart, SpongeBob, Stewie, Daffy, Dora, and Baby Huey. Where do all those crazy and creative voices come from? What is it about the simplistic nature of a cartoon world in which characters and ...

AI animation combines artistic techniques with advanced algorithms to create a variety of visual styles. Dan Kieft examines how AI enables everything from painterly, Arcane-inspired textures to the ...