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 ...

Character animation and motion synthesis have evolved into a multidisciplinary field at the nexus of computer graphics, biomechanics, and artificial intelligence. The field aims to generate ...

Getting animated performances onto the screen can take time. But Jeffrey Dates, a creative director at Mill+, part of visual effects and creative content studio The Mill, has been on a mission to use ...

Cartoon Animator has just received a free update packed with brand-new features and tools that are going to have you animating like never before. As part of our ongoing series exploring the platform’s ...

Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to California in 2019. She holds degrees in law and communications, and currently writes news, analysis and features for CNET across ...

Summary: Character.AI has announced its first artificial intelligence-powered video generation model. Called AvatarFX, the platform is capable of generating high-quality videos from a pre-existing ...

Disney's first full-feature animated movie, Snow White, has officially been reimagined in live-action, but how do the characters compare? Live-action remakes have become an art form for Disney, and ...

Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch includes practically all the characters from the 2002 animated movie, providing an idea of how the characters look in live-action vs. animation. The 2025 live-action ...