The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2020, the awards recognising the very best in film of the past year, and whose ceremony will place on Sunday 2 February at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Among the revealed nominations is a surplus[…..] […]
3Dbuzz has announced it is closing, in a final gesture it has made all its content available for free, including many previously commercial courses. Training spans 3d apps, drawing, programming, maths primers, and much more. 3Dbuzz was founded by Jason Busby who died in 2017, no doubt it will be fondly remembered by many CG[…..] […]
SiNi Software has announced the launch of a new magazine aimed at the architectural visualisation industry. Of particular interest to our readers, the inaugural issue features an in-depth interview with the Autodesk 3DS Max team which covers the “past, present and future of the software, and why 3ds Max is built for architectural visualisation. Autodesk[…..] […]
Unigine has announced the release of version 2.10 bringing several significant new features to the real-time engine including a brand new terrain system with a limit of 10000 x 10000km or unlimited if you don’t need to simulate the earth’s curvature. Other new features include an improved C++ and C# API, a high-level Car physics[…..] […]
The LAIKA movie has now won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Animated. For the last decade, LAIKA has delivered incredible works of art and artistry in the stop-motion animated films Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings. Four films with five Oscar nominations among them, four films that featured[…..] […]
While fans await the second half of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty, co-creator Justin Roiland is hard at work on a brand-new show. The Emmy-winner is teaming up with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, itself an Emmy-winning animation studio (Robot Chicken), for a claymation series bound for upcoming streaming service, Quibi. The new streaming platform, which is[…..] […]
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[…..] […]
