Community Pushback Saves Adobe Animate

Adobe has reversed course on its plans for Adobe Animate, confirming that the long-running 2D animation application will not ...
Science Daily

This new 3D chip could break AI’s biggest bottleneck

Researchers have created a new kind of 3D computer chip that stacks memory and computing elements vertically, dramatically speeding up how data moves inside the chip. Unlike traditional flat designs, ...
The New York Times

Animation Hasn’t Been the Same Since ‘Toy Story’

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost. By Maya Phillips There are so many ways of ...
InfoWorld

Will JavaFX return to Java?

While an argument to re-integrate JavaFX floats in an OpenJDK discussion list, Oracle ponders providing better access to JavaFX from the JDK. Just as a proposal to return JavaFX to the Java ...
Kotaku

30 Years Ago, Homer Entered The Third Dimension

On October 29, 1995, just over 12 million viewers tuned into the newest episode of Fox’s hit animated (and very 2D) comedy, The Simpsons, and were shocked to see Homer become 3D. Pulling this off was ...
Polygon

The Chainsaw Man movie mixes hand-drawn animation with CGI — just like Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle

Mappa’s upcoming Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc masterfully blends 2D and 3D art, echoing Ufotable’s Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle by pairing 3D environments with 2D character models. At New York ...
The Verge

Nvidia is letting anyone use its AI voice animation tech

Nvidia is open sourcing Audio2Face, its AI tool that generates facial animations for 3D avatars based on audio input. Nvidia is open sourcing Audio2Face, its AI tool that generates facial animations ...
9to5Mac

Faster animations on iOS 26 makes even older iPhones feel like new

The design revamp brought about with iOS 26 brings all sorts of new animations along with the Liquid Glass visual treatments. With beta 6, Apple overhauled Springboard’s app launch animations for the ...
Cartoon Brew

‘Living Between 2D And 3D’: How ‘The Bad Guys 2’ Pushed Its Hybrid Animation Further

For 2022’s The Bad Guys, the team at DreamWorks established a hyper-stylized, graphic look that enhanced CG animation with qualities of traditional hand-drawn works. Now in theaters, the sequel ...
PC Gamer

Deltarune's Tenna was first envisioned in 3D almost a decade ago in a delightfully janky prototype

It was to be animated via an Xbox Kinect. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred source on Google Tenna, the ...
Variety

Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Yellowbrick Launch Free Online Course, ‘This Is Animation’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks have teamed up with the educational platform Yellowbrick to present “This Is Animation,” an all-new, free-to-access online course designed to ...