One year ago Microsoft Researchers created a hyper releastic AI video animator, VASA-1, but did not release it. Now, Bytedance owner of TikTok, is getting closer to matching the VASA-1 ability to ...

"Do it again. This time so it doesn't suck." A remarkable proof-of-concept short film to show the incredible potential of the Unreal Engine. Of course this isn't the first animated short film to do ...

Belle. Jasmine. Ariel. What did they all have in common? Aside from a freakishly small waist, each of the Disney heroines also had giant, perfect eyes with expressions ranging from wide-eyed ...

Researchers at Electronic Arts are coming up with ways to make those hyper-realistic games even more squint-and-you-miss-it real looking. Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, ...

At Annecy 2018, French cg studio TeamTO previewed their ‘hyper-real’ animated animal series Mighty Mike. The show follows a hapless dog and several other animals in a suburban home, marketed as a ...

Facebook Reality Labs, the company’s AR/VR R&D group, published detailed research on a method for hyper-realistic real-time virtual avatars, expanding on prior work which the company calls ‘Codec ...

For two decades now, American computer-generated animated films have more or less followed a similar visual template. While their character designs aren’t necessarily hyper-realistic, everything else ...

Long-time Cartoon Brew favorite YouTube Toniko Pantoja put out a new video this week, pleading with animators to stop getting a few basic things mixed up when discussing animation. In the 12-minute ...

Despite the fact that the 2019 Lion King is rendered entirely in hyper-realistic computer animation, you’d be hard-pressed to find the word “animated” anywhere in the marketing materials. From the ...