Technology

Tech Reviews: Maxon’s Redshift ’25, RizomUV & Plasticity

Maxon’s Redshift 2025 Maxon has released Redshift 2025.3, which offers some really cool tool improvements and enhancements. For those unfamiliar with Redshift, it is a...

Todd Sheridan Perry - April 11, 2025

SAG-AFTRA Leaders Head to Washington to Reintroduce NO FAKES Act

Today, a press conference was held celebrating the SAG-AFTRA-supported, bipartisan Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act as it was...

Animation Magazine - April 9, 2025

Maxon One Launches New Features for Gaming, VFX & 3D Artists

Maxon today announced a significant update to the Maxon One product suite with hundreds of new features and capabilities across its popular tools including...

Animation Magazine - April 2, 2025

“An Insult to Life Itself”: OpenAI’s New Tech Fuels Ghibli Imitation Trend, Raises Questions

This week, ChatGPT creators OpenAI unexpectedly released the latest version of its image generator tech, built into GPT-40, which features a “natively multimodal model...

Animation Magazine - March 27, 2025

Autodesk Reveals Updates to Media & Entertainment Collection

Autodesk is making crowd tools more accessible, integrating AI to strengthen tools and enhancing Flow-connected workflows, in the latest release of its Design &...

Mercedes Milligan - March 26, 2025

Disney XD LatAm Hit ‘Karl’ Interacts with Fans as AI Agent

Saga Origins and SPIRIT Animation have joined forces to introduce a new entertainment experience with the KARL™ AI Agent. As one of the first...

Mercedes Milligan - March 25, 2025

Pete Docter: AI Could Be “Game Changer” in the Hands of Storytellers

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, timed to the Toy Story 30th anniversary celebrations, three-time Oscar-winning Pixar writer-director (and the studio's current Chief...

Animation Magazine - March 24, 2025

Hollywood Responds to OpenAI & Google Challenges to Copyright

Hundreds of entertainment industry creatives have signed on to a new open letter issued in response to recent submissions from OpenAI and Google (read...

Animation Magazine - March 17, 2025

V-Nova Studios Makes a Splash with New Immersive, Cinematic Projects ‘Sharkarma’ and ‘Weightless’

Pioneering London-based tech company V-Nova and its V-Nova Studios have unveiled Sharkarma: Guardian of the Oceans and Weightless, two ground-breaking cinematic experiences that mix...

Animation Magazine - March 14, 2025

JALI Brings Collaborative ‘Anim Revolution’ for Real-Time Animation to GDC

During the 2025 Game Developers Conference (GDC; March 17-21 in San Francisco), automated lip sync and facial animation software developer JALI Research and partners...

Animation Magazine - March 14, 2025

State of the Art: Focus on Five Major Motion Design Trends in 2025

By Ronny Young Every time I’m asked to predict how our field will evolve in the year ahead, I smile to myself, recalling — of...

Animation Magazine - March 3, 2025

Foundry Releases Nuke 16.0 Featuring Native Variable-Enabled Workflows

Creative software developer Foundry has released Nuke 16.0, with features set to transform compositing and review workflows by speeding up review and cutting time...

Animation Magazine - February 28, 2025