Renderbaron 2020 Showreel Highlights Photoreal CG
Düsseldorf animation studio Renderbaron’s 2020 showreel presents photoreal product, architectural and visual-effects work.
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Adobe Character Animator Beta Adds Speech-Aware Animation
Adobe Character Animator’s 2020 public beta added speech-aware head movement, improved lip sync, limb IK and timeline tools.
Unity 2021 Roadmap Prioritises Graphics, Multiplayer and Visual Scripting
Unity’s 2021 roadmap focused on production-ready graphics, multiplayer networking and visual-scripting workflows.
Lusine Arakelyan’s Quarantine Reel Explores Dark Motion Graphics
Lusine Arakelyan’s compact Quarantine Reel presents a dark, atmospheric sequence of motion-graphics experiments.
Alex Parker Shares Cinema 4D Character-Animation Tips
Alex Parker’s hour-long session covers character background, design decisions and practical Cinema 4D animation techniques.
Howler 2021 Released
Howler 2021 adds larger brushes, relative sizing, custom-brush transforms, tablet-focused UI changes and multi-monitor support.
How Aardman Took Flushed Away into CG
Aardman and DreamWorks built Flushed Away in CG, combining stylised water simulation, custom splash tools and clay-like character rigs.
2020 Emmy Main Title Design Nominees
Seven title sequences earned 2020 Emmy nominations, with Elastic represented by Carnival Row, The Morning Show, The Politician and Watchmen.
Beginner’s Guide to Ziva Dynamics
Benjamin Makki's Ziva Dynamics guide builds a feline simulation through skeleton preparation, muscles, fat and skin.
Sculpt Facial Poses in Cinema 4D
Jonas Pilz demonstrates how to turn Cinema 4D sculpting layers into morph targets for Pose Morph animation and keyframing.
Cascadeur Opens Its Free Beta
Cascadeur's open beta adds faster architecture and revised rigging tools to its physics-assisted keyframe animation workflow.
Blender Tools for Unreal Engine
Epic Games released Send to Unreal and UE to Rigify to streamline FBX-based transfers between Blender and Unreal Engine.
Bit Pixel-Art Animation Editor
Morgondag's Bit combined pixel-art drawing, sprite animation, scene editing and asset management ahead of its 2020 Steam release.
Digital Idea VFX Showreel
Digital Idea's seven-minute reel combines destruction, creatures, digital humans and battlefield simulation work.
Blender 2.8 Transform Constraints
Index3D's tutorial explains Transform Constraints in Blender 2.8 through windows, rolling tyres and other mechanical motion examples.
Animarkt 2020 Pitching Call
Animarkt sought stop-motion shorts in development for its 2020 pitching forum, with an application deadline of 3 August.
White Square Festival 2020 Winners
The online White Square Festival judged 937 entries from 31 countries, awarding two contrasting campaigns with Grand Prix honours.
Loop Selection in Cinema 4D S22
Jonas Pilz demonstrates Cinema 4D S22's Loop Selection tool, including its boundary, non-quad and pole stopping options.
Epic Releases Live Link Face for iOS
Live Link Face streamed iPhone TrueDepth facial capture into Unreal Engine with ARKit, timecode and remote-production support.
Building Claymation with ZBrush
Alexander Lee's 45-minute tutorial covers Maya blocking, ZBrush sculpting, blendshapes, retiming, shaders and lighting.
Arthdal Chronicles VFX Breakdown
Dexter Studios' breakdown reveals creature work and set extensions created for the Korean fantasy series Arthdal Chronicles.
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.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Moves Online
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 shifted from Daegu to an online event under the theme Driving Diversity because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Westworld Season 3 VFX Breakdown
RISE's Westworld season-three reel breaks down combat drones, set work, stunt augmentation and a particularly detachable arm.
Animated Shorts Created During Lockdown
Cartoon Brew's second lockdown collection gathered animated shorts made in varied styles, from isolation studies to toilet-roll horror.
SIGGRAPH Machine Learning Webinar
Disney Animation's Rajesh Sharma presented a free nine-part SIGGRAPH webinar on machine learning and neural networks for informed beginners.
SIGGRAPH 2020 Papers Moved Online
SIGGRAPH 2020 presented more than 150 technical-paper projects spanning stylisation, cloth, fluids, MPM, portraits and tactile rendering.
Grease Pencil Tutorial Blends 2D and 3D
Dedouze’s two-part Blender 2.8 course introduced beginners to Grease Pencil drawing and animation across 2D and 3D space.
Ed Hooks Revisited Acting for Animators
Ed Hooks discussed acting theory, Disney’s Snow White and lessons from film storytelling in an FMX Highlights livestream.
FMX 2020 Highlights Moved Online
FMX's 1994–2020 highlights series offered interactive interview rooms and public livestreams, beginning with Jan Pinkava on 5 May 2020.
NewTek: LightWave 2020
NewTek releases LightWave 2020 with various new shading and rendering features and more.
FMX Highlights from 1994 to 2020
Since we cannot see each other at FMX this year, the Animationsinstitut of Filmakademie is now publishing the highlights of FMX from 1994 to 2020!
Project Nature: 550 Free Assets
More than 550 Project Nature plant assets are available free of charge in the Unreal Marketplace.
FMX 2020 | Women in VFX and Animation, Trailer #2 and more!
News about FMX 2020 - Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media: More programme information, second trailer and more!
Maxon Moves | Facial & Body Motion Capture (iOS)
Facial and body motion capture for iOS and Cinema 4D R21: Maxon’s “Moves” lets you transfer corresponding data via compatible iPhones and iPad Pro!
CrazyTalk Animator 3 Pro Was Free on Mac
CrazyTalk Animator 3 Pro offered Mac users 2D rigging, keyframe, IK, facial animation, lip-sync and prop-dynamics tools.
NoiseScape 2 Builds Layered Displacement
NoiseScape 2 adds procedural Noise, Tile and Brick displacement layers, presets and custom shaders to Cinema 4D.
Cavalry Beta: Das neue Motion Design Tool?
More competition for the motion design software landscape? Cavalry is a promising tool - now in open beta.
The Beauty wins VES Award
Deep Dive with "The Beauty" - the short film from the Animation Institute of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg now also wins the VES Award - read the making-of from the DP.
Rigging and Animation Tools in Maya 2020
New video providing an overview of the Autodesk 2020 release: Blues Sky Studios and the Maya team discuss the new animation & rigging features.
Pixar’s USD Pipeline
USD in the pipeline? Pixar explains how the format is used in production!
Animation Tips Series: Birds, Insects and Dogs
Beetles, birds and walking cycles: These videos examine different animal gaits for animation.
New in Amazon Lumberyard: Simulated Objects
Amazon's free game engine gets its next update: With new PhysX and animation features.
Lumberyard with New PhysX
Amazon's "Lumberyard" game engine receives another update: The new beta version comes with changes for the Animation Editor, PhysX and more!
Free NPC Animations for Unreal
The Unreal Marketplace is sounding the alarm again: This time, a bunch of NPCs with free animations will run you over!
Love, Death + Robots | Lucky 13
Sony Pictures Imageworks with a new breakdown of the successful Netflix series Love, Death + Robots: this time for Lucky 13!
That was FMX 2019!
FMX 2019 is over and most visitors have successfully returned home: A short recap of this year's trade conference!
Dumbo in the Bathtub | VFX Breakdown
A round of flying with MPC? The studio shows a new breakdown of "Dumbo" (2019), on which more than 1,200 artists were involved.
Love, Death & Robots | Animation Breakdowns
Storyboards, previs, modeling, motion capture, animation and final rendering: the "Inside the Animation" series shows how the Netflix series was made!
Into The Spider-Verse | FX Design
Particles, machine learning, simulations and destruction: a new and final VFX breakdown for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse has been released!
Into The Spider-Verse: New York | Imageworks
Imageworks with a new breakdown clip for the Oscar winner "Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse" - this time we look at the realization of the city.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Imageworks
Off into the Spider-Verse with Imageworks: here is an insight into techniques used for the visual style.
God of War (4): Unit Image Breakdown
God of War in France: Unit Image presents its work on the God of War (4) cinematic!
FMX 2019: Animation Trailer
The new animation trailer for FMX 2019 is here and couldn't be more apt: Interactions with cats in a nutshell.
OpenCue: VFX Render Manager
Google and Sony Imageworks present OpenCue: The open-source render manager for the VFX and animation industry!
Google Earth Studio: Animation Tool
Animations can now be rendered with Google Earth: "Google Earth Studio" is currently still available as a beta test.
The 2019 Oscar Nominations
On February 24, the best films will again be honoured at the 91st Academy Awards – animation, VFX, editing and production design!
For All Unreal Fans: Monthly Free Content!
Epic Games keeps its word: Back in November, the company announced free content on its own Marketplace for all UE4 users.
C4D R20 Demo by Foam Studio
Maxon is continuing its tradition: Along with the launch of a new version, there is also generally a short film intended to demonstrate everything that, in this case, R20 can do.
Simlab Composer 9 Ready to Go!
Simlab also offers a free Lite version that can be used for commercial purposes.
animago AWARD 2018 – Winners and Nominees
After almost a thousand entries, it was quite difficult for the jury to decide who should take home the coveted prize - and after lengthy discussions, these were their choices. We will introduce all projects in the upcoming 2O19-issues of Digital Production. So without further ado...
Hamburg Animation Conference
The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce is once again inviting people to its beautiful city this year!
Let’s Go Crazy!
Even without extensive background knowledge in animation, quite a lot can be achieved with CrazyTalk Animator.
Animation & VFX Pipeline Management with Prism
The free tool will help everyone keep an overview.
FMX 2018: Trailer and Program
At the end of April, it is time again: FMX 2018 in Stuttgart once again offers an extnesive program for everyone interested. Here are the first trailers and program information!
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.
Job Offer: Professor of Digital Art Compositing in Vienna
At the Institute of Film and Television – Film Academy Vienna – of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the permanent position of a university professor of Digital Art Compositing pursuant to Section 98 UG 2002 is expected to be filled from October 1, 2019.
NewTek: LightWave 2018 Release!
NewTek presents LightWave 2018: With the new release on January 1 come many new functions, including a new PBR system, VR features, Open VDB support and more.
Meeting Robots, Spiderman and Women in Animation: The Animation Meeting 2017
Around 250 professionals and students met at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) for the 20th Animation Meeting. The talks revolved around Hollywood VFX, robots and current developments in the industry.
Three Days of Video Editing and Motion Design with the Pros.
Moving images are booming – so it is time to get started with video or pick up the latest trends, workflows and tips. At the next edition of Adobe Live, professionals will show real projects with video, motion design and animation in a live stream for three days from December 12 to 14. Premiere Pro and After Effects are included, including new features such as VR and time-saving functions such as Motion Design Templates.
Super Renders: Free Beta
A new render farm for Maya, 3ds Max and Cinema 4D. Super Renders is currently offering free use of the service in the beta version.
RigUI: Blender Add-on for Rig Control
A useful, free Blender add-on for rig control: For anyone who wants to create a quick rig interface for animation in Blender!
Motion Capture: MVN Animate 2018
Motion capture in any environment from now on: Xsens releases the new 2018 version of its MVN Animate software for MoCap data.
Modo 11.2 with Better Modelling Tools
The final update of Modo’s 11 series is here: Version 11.2 comes with improved modelling, UV, import and export functions and more.
Update: Houdini 16.5 Released!
The new Houdini 16.5 release is here! With new features in dynamics, character, rendering, modelling and the UI, SideFX has really pulled out all the stops!
The 2018 “Animated Short Film” Oscar Contenders
Who will be the next Oscar winner in the “Animated Short Film” category? Here are the contenders! They include some familiar names from the animago AWARD.
Goodbye Uncanny Valley?
Developments in computer graphics “in a nutshell”: Alan Warburton describes developments, influences and trends in the CG industry in “Goodbye Uncanny Valley”.
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.
Blender 2.8 in the Starting Blocks
Realtime render engine, custom workspaces, new dependency graph and more: Here is an overview of the expected features in Blender 2.8!
Easter Bunny Lays Eggs at The Mill
Cute Easter bunny at The Mill: The studio presents the behind the scenes of “The Easter Surprise” – with concept art, set design, animation, compositing and more.
Cinema4D – Here comes Release 19!
Fresh from Siggraph: Cinema 4D Release19, with a new viewport, sound effectors, even more Voronoi fracturing, a spherical VR camera and of course the AMD Radeon ProRender. Fancy testing it out yet?
Autodesk: Maya 2018 Released
The new Maya 2018 is here – including improvements and new features in modeling, UV, animation and motion graphics workflows.
Submissions for the Blender Demo Reel 2017
Anyone who wants to see their own work in Blender's next demo reel has until August 14 to submit the respective Blender project.
Artist Showreel: Martin Nabelek
Cool 2017 artist showreel: 22-year-old animation student Martin Nabelek from the Czech Republic presents his projects from the past year.
Crowd Simulation: Golaem 6 Released
Golaem 6 with many new functions: Including simple traffic tools and precise control of character behavior with more than 100 channel operators.