Sony PlayStaion Will Hold a Spring Release Conference for China Hero Program on March 7th, with a Number of New Games to be Announced

By PlayStation China The official microblog of PlayStation China has announced that the Spring Release Conference of China Hero Program will be held at 3 pm on March 7, 2019. It has also released a series of mysterious posters with hidden clues implying game information to be revealed at the conference. Can you tell which[…..] […]

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Newzoo: Games are the third most-popular mobile app category

Half of mobile app users at least check into gaming apps. Social media and shopping remain more popular. By Rebekah Valentine | Tuesday 5th March 2019 Of those who use apps of any kind on their mobile devices, half of them are using gaming apps, making gaming apps the third most-popular app category. In a survey[…..] […]

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Animated Short Film Thistle One Goes Live Today

Bobby Beck | March 5, 2019  Thistle One Was Created Using the Artella Production Management Platform Emeryville, CA, March 5, 2019 — Independent animated short film, Thistle One, is available immediately online for viewing. See it on The CG Brothers Channel on Youtube. The animated short film is an independent collaboration created with people from all over the world[…..] […]

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‘Zafari’ Makes MENA Debut on Spacetoon

First CG-animated series to be produced using the Unreal game engine celebrates our differences. By Jennifer Wolfe | Monday, March 4, 2019 at 12:33pm DUBAI — Spacetoon TV, the first kids’ TV channel in MENA, has recently premiered Zafari, an 11-minute CG animated series. The CG-animated series created with the Unreal Engine real-time game engine airs on Sundays and[…..] […]

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Magic Leap Announces the Winners of Magic Leap “Independent Creator Program”, the Construction Team VIM AEC Receiving Substantial Funding

The VR company Magic Leap is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, and is an AR platform similar to Microsoft HoloLens. As a mysterious and low-profile company, its main R & D direction is to project images directly through the human eye to the retina. In this way, your brain will think the images are real. The company will[…..] […]

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I Have a Question – Aerolite Tech Co., Ltd.

Aerolite is a game company based in Chongqing. Though small in scale, the company has an excellent performance in the field of cultural export. Today, CGGE has a chance to invite Mr. Li, the founder of the company, to talk about their games. CGGE: Can you briefly introduce the development history of Aerolite Tech Co.,[…..] […]

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FMX ‘19: Lucasfilm’s Doug Chiang, ‘LEGO Movie 2’ & ‘The Meg’ Join Lineup

By Mercedes Milligan | February 22, 2019 The 2019 FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media — taking place April 30 to May 3 in Stuttgart, Germany — has confirmed new additions to this year’s program. Doug Chiang, the Academy Award-winning Vice President and Executive Creative Director of Lucasfilm, has joined the Concept Art track. Chiang has made[…..] […]

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The Man Behind ‘I Am A Man,’ a VR Experience That Chronicles the Fight for Civil Rights

by SIGGRAPH Conferences | Feb. 19, 2019 At SIGGRAPH 2018, Derek Ham shared his VR project “I Am A Man” in the Immersive Pavilion’s Vrcade. This captivating experience immerses users in the middle of the historic events of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, including those leading up to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As we close out February,[…..] […]

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Sundance, SIGGRAPH, and What’s Next for VR Filmmaking

by Maxwell Planck | Feb 13th, 2019 We are still in a high-fashion stage of VR where the experimentation and far-out art being presented at festivals like Sundance have yet to inspire the “ready to wear” market we are all waiting for. Since 2013, Sundance has been the first annual “runway” that sets the tone for[…..] […]

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Pixar’s SparkShorts Program Supports Innovation, Funds Independent Filmmaking

“SparkShorts is indie filmmaking inside of Pixar.” There came a newly unveiled initiative from Pixar: SparkShorts. Though first revealed to SIGGRAPH attendees in 2017 via a Talk on “Smash and Grab,” the program offers artists from all areas of the studio a chance to create their own, independent short film. Lester was one of six filmmakers[…..] […]

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