Are the best computer animators only as good as the technology they use, or does natural talent distinguish their work from the rest? The question has been debated online this week after a new ...
Can you imagine Michael Bay’s Transformers without the CGI Autobots and Decepticons? It would be unwatchable if it were even ever made. James Cameron’s Avatar would have lost the gorgeous visuals that ...
When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...
As metaphors for Hollywood in 2019 go, it’s hard to beat “Circle of Life.” A thing is born, it lives (hopefully turning a nice profit for shareholders) and then it dies, but is never really gone.
The video above features Saya, a computer-generated image (CGI) of a Japanese teenager, who animators and developers alike have been following for the last few months. Created by Tokyo-based couple ...
Barcelona-based Bad Lazy Robot (BLR) produces endlessly inventive CG work for its big corporate clients. Chevrolet, Absolut, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Hasbro have all enlisted the fast-rising design ...
I tend not to pay a lot of attention to the gaming community. It's not that I'm disinterested in computer and video games, it's just that it's a huge field outside of my normal technology interests, ...
I’ve come across people who believe that Max Headroom, the Channel 4 character from the Eighties (pictured at top), was a genuine piece of computer animation. But although he was conceived by the ...
When the trailer for Tom Hooper’s Cats premiered over the summer, many were, let’s say, taken aback by the film’s CGI. The visuals transformed the star-studded cast into human-cat hybrids like ...