Season 2 of the Emmy Award-winning Netflix original series, DreamWorks’ 3Below: Tales of Arcadia is now streaming. The 13-episode second season of Guillermo del Toro’s second chapter in the Tales of Arcadia trilogy finds Royal aliens, Aja (Tatiana Maslany) and Krel (Diego Luna), cleaning up the mess that was left behind after their epic victory[…..] […]
Tepid critics’ reviews didn’t stop Disney fans from showing up for Disney’s remake of The Lion King, which opened its U.S. box office run with a record $185 million (estimated), the biggest launch ever for an animated film at the U.S. box office, beating the previous record-holder, Disney-Pixar’s Incredibles 2, which opened with $182.6 million[…..] […]
Netflix continues its remarkable charge into animation production with a fresh slate of original preschool series. Of the seven newly announced projects, five are animated. They include a new installment in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise and an adaptation of P.D. Eastman’s much-loved 1961 book Go, Dog. Go! The animated series are all[…..] […]
The Human Effect of Tech: SIGGRAPH 2019 Shines Light on Adaptive Technology From Research Innovations to Interactive Installations, Conference Showcases How Tech Is Helping Humans CHICAGO—SIGGRAPH 2019 announces programming focused around Adaptive Technology, a new focus area for its upcoming Los Angeles conference. Participants can discover the latest innovations with the potential to help humans[…..] […]
Epic Games awards large cash grant to the free 3D software maker as part of ongoing program to assist professionals expanding efforts with Unreal Engine and open-source technology. Epic Games, as part of the company’s $100 million Epic MegaGrants program, is awarding the Blender Foundation $1.2 million in cash to further the success of Blender,[…..] […]
Company veteran has held several senior executive positions prior to taking the helm, effective immediately. Foundry today announced that Jody Madden has assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Madden joined Foundry in 2013 and has held positions as Chief Operating Officer and most recently, Chief Customer Officer and Chief Product Officer. Over[…..] […]
The new Trusted Partner Network, MPAA Open Source software initiatives and ISV native cloud service offerings are all positively impacting cloud resource utilization. The rise in cloud services adoption for content creation over the past few years has aligned with the explosive growth of high-quality scripted media production. Additionally, these high-quality projects’ visual effects and[…..] […]
R&B singer Halle Bailey already has a number one fan when it comes to her upcoming role as Ariel in Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. Speaking to E! News during Comic-Con 2019, Yara Shahidi shared her excitement over her Grown-ish co-star and friend’s casting. Naturally, when she found out the news about the[…..] […]
Character and content company Aurora World is toasting the successful launch of YooHoo to the Rescue — the latest animated series inspired by its globally popular YooHoo brand — in Russia. The show has launched on leading Russian linear kids’ station, Carousel TV, with plans to drive a plush and licensing program in the country.[…..] […]
Agisoft has released De-Lighter, a new free stand-alone tool designed to remove shadows from model textures. The application is designed to remove cast shadows and ambient occlusion from 3D models by allowing the user to paint on the models to mark approximate areas that are lit or in shadow. It uses “rough illumination maps to perform binary[…..] […]
