World Intellectual Property Day – April 26, 2020 Innovate for a Green Future Every April 26, we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day to learn about the role that intellectual property (IP) rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity. World IP Day 2020 puts innovation – and the IP rights that support it – at the[…..] […]
Triband’s comedic physics puzzler What the Golf? is stuffed with interesting levels that surprise the player in hilarious ways, and at GDC in March you’ll have a chance to see how they were all designed! In a special Independent Games Summit talk titled “100 Trick Pony: Designing ‘WHAT THE GOLF?’” Triband creative director Tim Garbos[…..] […]
The 2020 Golden Globes have arrived, and with it a night of festivities and awards that mark a significant signpost on the way to the Oscars. Given the shortened schedule this year, the Globes feel even more “relevant” as it relates to the Academy’s big night—Oscar voting is currently underway, so the winners/speeches tonight could[…..] […]
“It was fortunate that we went from Kubo and the Two Strings, at the time the biggest scale we had ever pulled off at Laika, to Missing Link because we learned a few things on that film that we expanded upon this time around,” says Missing Link art director Rob DeSue. But even with the[…..] […]
Disney’s 2020 is already beginning on a high note as Frozen II is crowned the highest-grossing animated movie of all time at the end of the first weekend in January. This new honor marks a major turn for the fortunes of the sequel to the 2013 hit Frozen. At the end of December 2019, Frozen[…..] […]
Muhammad Etman has released an updated version of his tool for exchanging scenes between Maya and Clarisse IFX. New features include a redesigned UI, Alembic support, Alembic referencing, animation support, hierarchy preservation for all objects type and more. Learn more about the tool on Gumroad. Maya/Clarisse Bridge Tool V2.0 New Features: – UI redesigned[…..] […]
Leading Chinese online entertainment service iQIYI is ready to send its debut family-animated feature film Spycies to theaters at home and abroad. Produced by iQIYI Pictures, the CGI adventure will arrive in theaters across China on January 11, with subsequent releases rolling out in Europe, North America and Southeast Asia. Spycies revolves around an alluring[…..] […]
Overwork and burnout are real threats to happiness, especially in the field of game development, where demand for big, beautiful virtual worlds often sees passionate devs working late nights and weekends. That’s why Game Developers Conference officials are excited to confirm that veteran game developer Laralyn McWilliams will return to GDC 2020 in March to[…..] […]
KeenTools has announced that an open beta of FaceBuilder is now available for Blender. Until now, Facebuilder has only been available for Nuke where it could be used to very quickly create and texture a 3D model of a human head based on photographs. It doesn’t use photogrammetry, FaceBuilder’s workflow relies on the user placing anatomical landmarks[…..] […]
Hasbro, Inc. today announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Entertainment One Ltd. (eOne), adding beloved global brands including Peppa Pig and PJ Masks to its purview and expanding storytelling through immersive entertainment experiences. “We are excited about what we can do together and see tremendous opportunity for shareholder value creation through[…..] […]
