Nukepedia Rebuilt, nuBridge Reloaded
An interview with Nukepedia founder Frank Rueter, one of the long-standing Nuke community voices, about the platform rebuild, nuBridge and the next steps for 2D Compositing tools.
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Seamlessifier Rips Photo Textures
Seamlessifier turns photo snippets into seamless PNG textures, atlases included, with useful knobs and some honest rough edges.
Callipeg Studio Heads to Desktop
Callipeg goes desktop with macOS and Windows builds, familiar 2D tools, beta caveats and a price that avoids subscription bingo.
Adobe ships Rotate Object in Photoshop beta
Rotate Object arrives in Photoshop beta: rotate a cutout like it grew depth overnight, then upscale and Harmonize for faster comps.
Adobe pulls the plug on Animate at last
Adobe has confirmed the end of life of Adobe Animate, setting clear dates for sales, access, and support wind-down.
Moho 14.4 Goes on a Side Quest: 2D Meets Game Engines
Lost Marble’s Moho 14.4 “Side Quest” links 2D animation with game engines via glTF export, plus Smart Bones in 360°, smarter particles, and smoother strokes.
Odyssey: Toons on the Unreal Engine Timeline
Odyssey is now free on Fab: 2D storyboarding and vector animation, baked right into Unreal Engine 5.6.
Browser Cloth: Wiggle It Just a Little Bit
Finally, a cloth sim that runs in your browser and doesn’t crash your machine. Click, drag, wiggle—no download, just delightful chaos.
Moho 14.3: Mantis Shrimp Packs a Colorful Punch
Moho 14.3, the Mantis Shrimp update, introduces advanced brush features like Color Drift and Opacity, enhancing 2D animation with natural media effects.
From Sketch to Scene: Clay Pencil Turns 2D into 3D in Real Time
Clay Pencil transforms 2D sketches into 3D animations in real-time, leveraging Blender’s node-based Geometry Nodes system.
Download 125 Free 2D Cloud Textures for VFX
Get 125 free 2D cloud textures for VFX and post-production. Perfect for compositing, matte painting, and CGI workflows.
Shadow play in Blender
Even though it is one of the youngest VFX degree programmes, the HFF already has a lot to show - and if we remember what we did in the second
what we did in the second semester, "Das Schattenspiel" is already worthy of note. But how did it come about?
Moho 14 – the most advanced 2D animation
"Unlock your creativity and discover that the future is 2D!" This is what Lost Marble LCC, the company that developed Moho (and is now marketing it again), proudly claims on its website announcing the new version of Moho 14.
The new kid on the block!
The market for VFX and motion design software seems pretty saturated. Nuke for VFX, After Effects for Motion Design, sprinkle in a little bit of Flame and Fusion and that’s about it. Or is it?
Planet B
"There is no Planet B". A slogan
from various climate protection campaigns, which refers to our current situation of not having a second planet on which to live
on which the inhabitants of Earth could live. The film Planet B shows
a scenario in which exactly that is attempted. On a planet afflicted by drought and toxic gases, a young woman sits in her underground bunker and controls the construction process of a new planet in space.
Reallusion releases Cartoon Animator 5
Optimise your 2D animation with feather physics, FFD overdrawing and vector graphics
Weathering with You: Worldbuilding with Hiroshi Takiguchi
Art director Hiroshi Takiguchi explores the worldbuilding and environment design behind Makoto Shinkai’s anime feature Weathering with You.
Six Animation Books Highlight Art, History and Filmmaking
A reading list surveys six books on animation artists, pixel history, Disney television, British animation, Mamoru Hosoda and decorative arts.
Inside Digital Production 02:2021
Digital Production 02:2021 covers colour tools, Resolve, Magic Bullet, Marmoset, Houdini, Katana, Nuendo, Cascadeur and Unreal Niagara.
Blender Add-on Enables Remote Character Animation
Wanderson Studio used Blender’s addRoutes add-on and TouchOSC to animate a character remotely for the short Xmas Is Cancelled.
Inside Pixar Explores the Studio’s Creative Process
The Disney+ documentary series Inside Pixar presents stories from the artists and production teams behind the animation studio’s work.
Studio Ghibli Releases 400 Film Stills
Studio Ghibli released 400 still images from eight films, including Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo.
Don Bluth Launches New Animation Studio
Don Bluth Studios launches with Bluth Fables, livestreamed development and a stated focus on new hand-drawn characters and stories.
After Effects Tutorial: Liquid Reveal Animation
Ben Marriott demonstrates a liquid reveal animation in After Effects using an illustration by Pierre Kleinhouse.
Howler 2021 Released
Howler 2021 adds larger brushes, relative sizing, custom-brush transforms, tablet-focused UI changes and multi-monitor support.
Meduc Award 2020 Opens for Entries
The Meduc Award 2020 invited emerging media creators to submit print, film, journalism, music and multimedia work by 1 August.
OpenToonz 1.2 – The New Update
Jeremy Bullock takes a tour of the new features in OpenToonz 1.2 in this video and says whether the update is worthwhile.
Off to the Dream Laboratory: The ITFS Trailer 2018
It’s really not that long now: Get through Christmas, New Year’s Eve and the bunny festival once, and we can go to the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film again! Here is the new trailer.
1833 to 2017: The Evolution of Animation
Something for nostalgists and history lovers: the evolution of animation with excerpts from various films from 1833 to 2017!
Moho 12 – the new anime studio
Smith Micro Software is renewing its 2D animation range. The well-known anime studio is now being replaced by the Moho series.
Get a Motion Graphics Book for Free
The "Motion Graphics Design Academy – The Basics" book by author Timo Fecher is in the final stages of publication. Anyone who wants to receive the 200-page ebook for free can register in advance on the Crossfeyer homepage.
Update for Fayin
Fayteq has released update 2.3.1 of the matchmoving tool, making it compatible with Adobe After Effects CC 2015.3.
More Animation with Krita!
Version 3.0 of the open-source tool Krita is an update packed with new features: among other things, the frame-by-frame animation function has been improved.
Animate Like Studio Ghibli
Japanese company Dwango acquired animation software Toonz from Italian developer Digital Video and plans to release the next version as open source.
MPDS4 Combines 2D and 3D Factory Planning
CAD Schroer presents its new MPDS4 Factory Layout system at Industrie Paris 2008.
Nemetschek Presents New Software Generation for Highly Efficient Planning Process
Nemetschek's trade fair appearance at Build IT 2008 in Berlin is entirely devoted to Allplan BIM 2008. The new 3D planning software for Building Information Modeling (BIM) is distinguished by its unique building structure, which enables a practice-oriented, topological division of buildings into levels and storeys
Autodesk and RIB Announce Strategic Partnership
Autodesk Inc. and RIB Software AG have announced a strategic partnership. The aim of the cooperation is to combine Autodesk's leading technologies for building data modelling with RIB's cost-management solutions.
Cube 3D 2 Stereo Projector
Manufacturer Digital Image presented the second generation of its high-resolution single-chip DLP projectors at the Eurographics trade show in Vienna
SIGGRAPH Paper: Image based Material Editing
Paper shows how the material properties of an object can be changed completely and automatically
Crater Software Releases CTP Pro 1.8
CTP Pro 1.8 updates the Windows 2D-animation package with new playback, scanning, naming and fill controls.
animago Award 2003: Double DVD “Best of animago” Is Here!
For the first time in the history of the animago Award, the honored works are presented on two DVDs. The organizers thus present comprehensive documentation of this year’s competition and at the same time manifest their claim to provide an industry overview of the state of the art in international 2D/3D productions.
Ferro Software Adds C2A and SLR Tools for Animo
C2A transferred exposure sheets from CTP to Animo, while SLR automated local batch rendering of multiple Animo scenes.
Scannova Automates Image Cutouts with Studio 2D and Scannova 35
Scannova combined blue-screen techniques and neural-network software to automate image cutouts and 3D product presentations.
Digital Juice Offers Royalty-Free Graphics, Animation and Music
Digital Juice bundled 55 GB of production graphics, looping backgrounds and a 1,000-track music collection for editors.
Curious World Maps 3.5 Adds 3D Map Animation
World Maps 3.5 created layered 2D and 3D geographic animations for video, presentations and web delivery.
Hahn Film Selects NXN Alienbrain for SimsalaGrimm
Hahn Film adopted Alienbrain to manage assets, revisions and project progress for the SimsalaGrimm animated feature.
Cartoon Rendering and Flash Export for Maya and 3ds Max
Cambridge Animation Systems released Inkworks cartoon rendering and Swiffworks Flash export plug-ins for Maya and 3ds Max.
Animo 4.1 Animation System Released
Animo 4.1 combined traditional 2D techniques with 3D elements, modular production tools, Macromedia Flash output and floating licences.
Digital Broadcast Systems Takes Over Animo Distribution
DBS assumed German distribution and support for Cambridge Animation Systems’ Animo 2D animation software.
OpenGL now available in the latest version 1.3
New features and functions give the graphics library additional quality and realism capabilities
Animo supports Flash Output
Animo 4, which was presented at the NAB, supports Flash Ouput as well as numerous new features
CTP is now compatible with Macromedia Flash
CTP, the complete solution for 2D cartoon animation productions for Windows, is now available in the new version 1.4. CTP 1.4 is now fully compatible with Macromedia's Flash.