When Augusto Schillaci’s heartfelt CG-animated short La Calesita (The Merry-Go-Round) debuted at Annecy in June, audiences praised its heartwarming portrayal of an old merry-go-round...
Pixomondo’s skilled team of artists across global facilities have crafted cinematic worlds for the most beloved and coveted IP. From Star Trek’s final frontier,...
This year's winner of the Visual Effects Society (VES) Student Award, presented once again by Autodesk during the 20th annual VES Awards, uses richly...
Twin Pines, the Madrid-based digital post-production company, looked after the visual effects for La Fortuna, the new Movistar+ series directed by Alejandro Amenábar. This...
***This article was written for the November '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 314)***
Back in November of 2017, animator Joshua Slice’s charming Lucas the...
Autodesk rolled out Maya 2020.4 today. Designed to help artists and studios keep pace with the ever-increasing demand for content, this release unveils the...
Ringling College of Art and Design graduate Jeremy Schaefer’s action-packed new short The Box Assassin centers on an unassuming pizza delivery guy who unwittingly...
Irish children’s author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers’ 2017 book Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth is the kind of charmingly illustrated...
A few years ago, former president of Canadian animation studio Nelvana Scott Dyer and creative producer Pamela Slavin contacted Arna Selznick (The Care Bears...
Centered around the theme of “Thrive,” the 46th edition of SIGGRAPH is right around the corner, featuring the latest innovations in computer graphics and...
Nvidia’s Titan RTX
Last summer at Siggraph, Nvidia made a huge splash by introducing its new line of RTX Turing architecture-based cards and its mothership,...
From spinning up 2,000 instances in minutes to simultaneously rendering on 170,000 cores, studio taps Amazon Elastic Compute (EC2) and Spot Instances for 4.5M...
Portland, Oregon-based animation studio HouseSpecial and director Kirk Kelley have launched a new short about the love life of one of America’s odder creatures,...
The new animated special The Highway Rat has all the ingredients of a classic animated special.
After producing The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Room on...
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Autodesk as ever has taken the opportunity of SIGGRAPH to highlight the next generation of its storytelling and collaboration...