Spire Animation Studios has raised $20 million from Epic Games and others as it aims to produce animated films for the metaverse. Los Angeles-based Spire will use Epic’s Unreal Engine as part of its ...

Virtual production — placing performers and animated characters into hitherto unimaginable settings — is everywhere. The technology exploded when Unreal Engine brought real-time rendering and ...

Mercury Filmworks (“The Bob’s Burgers Movie,” “Hilda”) and Blue Spirit (“Blue Eye Samurai,” “What If…?”) have launched Seraphim, a bespoke animation pipeline developed to produce high-end 2D and CG ...

AI can be a scary word in the animation industry, but what many fail to recognize is that it’s a broad umbrella term for a multitude of tools, pipelines, and production approaches. This latest ...

During its upcoming Production Technology Seminar, the European Broadcasting Union will be revealing more details of its proof of concept around using remote production for real-time animation. As ...

Under the partnership, Epic's Unreal Engine will be integrated into Spire's feature animation pipeline, specifically driving advancement with story and characters in the metaverse. By Trilby Beresford ...

EXCLUSIVE: AI film and animation studio Asteria has appointed DreamWorks Animation vet Don Allen Stevenson III as Creative AI Pipeline Director. Stevenson, a former artist trainer for DWA, is a ...

But it’s not just filmmakers driving this shift. Indie game developers want to prototype characters and worlds in hours, not weeks. TikTok and social media creators are looking to animate original ...