The Corner of Hollywood That’s Most Susceptible to AI

Amid these developments, some artists in Hollywood are finding the job more and more unsustainable. A few of the ones I spoke ...
Defector

Darren Aronofsky’s AI Videos Are A Fitting Tribute To America, I Guess

Darren Aronofsky’s AI production studio Primordial Soup was announced in May of 2025 during Google’s annual developer conference. The launch was meant to burnish the pioneering reputations of both ...

First ‘Wildwood’ Footage Shows Off Laika’s Latest Epic

Wildwood, LAIKA's latest stop-motion animation marvel, was shown off at Annecy and we got a look at the first footage.
Yardbarker

Studio Ghibli’s 3 Wildest Rules That Haven’t Changed in Over Four Decades

Studio Ghibli’s world is built on rules that seem almost impossible in modern animation. While much of the industry has raced toward larger teams, algorithmic workflows, and digital shortcuts, some of ...
IGN

Lost Art: How CG Killed Hand-Drawn Animation at Disney

“I’ve been doing it all backwards,” animator Aaron Blaise says, chuckling. Truly, it’s hard to overstate just how disrupting the emergence of CG was to traditionally-trained animators like Blaise.
IndieWire

Amazon MGM’s Dream of a ‘New Golden Age’ of Animation Hinges on Three Iffy-Looking AI-Created Kids Shows

At the AI on the Lot conference, the studio's COO Albert Cheng, along with creators for each show, made their case for generative AI. What does it look like when Hollywood finally embraces artificial ...
IEEE

Express4D: Expressive, Friendly, and Extensible 4D Facial Motion Generation Benchmark

Abstract: Dynamic facial expression generation from natural language is a crucial task in Computer Graphics, with applications in Animation, Virtual Avatars, and Human-Computer Interaction. However, ...
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Computer Science Class Projects Computer-Generated Art on Campus Exterior

Students in Generative Art spent the past month developing computer-generated art pieces before getting to project their creations onto campus exteriors. Throughout the creative process, Assistant ...
The Independent

Lego bombings to GTA memes: How Iran and the US are using pop culture to fight a propaganda war

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Scarlet,’ an animated take on ‘Hamlet,’ mines an unlikely strain of compassion

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Currently nominated for multiple Oscars, Chloé ...
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An AI approach for single-image-based 3D character animation with preserved proportions

In Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers, a research team affiliated with UNIST reports a new AI technology that can animate 3D characters to mimic the exact movements shown in a ...