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Animation Magazine’s Best of 2019
Congratulations to all our Animag’s Best of 2019 Award Winners. These year-end honors were determined by our readers who picked their favorites during the...
Rudolph Muscles His Way to a Comeback in Ritzy’s ‘RED’
A holiday hero in disgrace hoofs his way back to the top in RED, a new richly-textured comedy short from London’s Ritzy Animation and...
‘Spies in Disguise’: Espionage Takes Wing
***This article originally appeared in the January ‘20 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 296)***
There’s a surprising message in Spies in Disguise, the new Blue...
Artifex Scares Up 200 Shots (and 10K Scorpions) for Nick’s ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark’
Vancouver’s Artifex Studios provided over two hundred sophisticated visual effects shots for the reboot of fondly-remembered frightener Are You Afraid of the Dark, which...
‘Hors Piste’: That Irresistible Alpine Humor
***This article originally appeared in the December ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 295)***
It has been quite a year for France’s École des Nouvelles...
Nelvana’s ‘Most Magnificent Thing’ Promotes Positive Values
A few years ago, former president of Canadian animation studio Nelvana Scott Dyer and creative producer Pamela Slavin contacted Arna Selznick (The Care Bears...
Talking 20 Years of Toonz Media Group with CEO P. Jayakumar
It was about 20 years ago when Toonz Media Group opened its first studio in Kerala, India. Back then, there were only a few commercial animation...
Technicolor’s Mill Film Adelaide Up and Running
Global movie company Technicolor has launched a new post-production studio in Adelaide, Australia. The group’s first Southern Hemisphere operation, operating under the Mill Film...
From Rockers to Walkers: Secrets of New V-Ray for Houdini from Ingenuity Studios
Chaos Group has released V-Ray for Houdini, a production-proven renderer built for high-end VFX and animation projects. Artists can now assemble their scenes in...
Top 10 Tech Tools @ SIGGRAPH
Centered around the theme of “Thrive,” the 46th edition of SIGGRAPH is right around the corner, featuring the latest innovations in computer graphics and...
The Mane Event: ‘The Lion King’ Takes Pride in Virtual Production
***This article originally appeared in the August ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 292)***
One of the more surreal moments experienced by animation supervisor Andy...
Fox Renderfarm Backs Ambitious CG Fanimation ‘Dragon Ball Z Legacy’
A group of international CG artists and super Dragon Ball fans are teaming up to create a 3D reimagining of the iconic action-anime in...
10 Questions for Locksmith Animation’s Sarah Smith & Julie Lockhart
This month, we had a chance to chat with Sarah Smith and Julie Lockhart, founders of London-based Locksmith Animation, which specializes in making CG-animated...
Putting the Razer Blade 15 Gaming Laptop’s RTX Tech to the Test
Since the announcement of the RTX technology back in SIGGRAPH of 2018, the graphics world has been turned on its head. There are people...
Studio Parovoz’s Animated ‘Koshchey’ Revives Russian Classics
Animag recently had the chance to hear from some of the creative forces behind Parovoz Studio’s upcoming CG-animated feature Koshchey: The True Story. This...
Elastic Re-Designs ‘Game of Thrones’ Credits with a Boost from V-Ray
The animated map of Game of Thrones’ opening sequence has always been a quick primer for viewers as to where each episode would take...
Masterpiece Motion VR Model Rigging Solution Launches
MasterpieceVR announced the release of Masterpiece Motion, the world’s first professional VR software to accelerate and simplify rigging of 3D models for gaming and...
Pixar Releases RenderMan 22.5 with Revamped Houdini Plugin
Pixar Animation Studios’ tech team have unveiled RenderMan 22.5, featuring a completely rewritten RenderMan for Houdini plugin along with several important new features and...
April Tech Reviews
Wacom’s Cintiq 16
What makes the new slimmed-down Wacom Cintiq 16 tablet different from previous versions?
Wacom recognizes that its products generally don’t price within everyone’s...
Filipino Anime ‘Barangay 143’ Returns to Air
The first anime-style series to be created and air in the Philippines, Barangay 143 is back on broadcast, airing every Sunday on GMA 7...
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