There’s plenty of talk about the cloud these days, even though many consumers don’t entirely understand what it is. For centuries the term “cloud” referred to those fluffy things in the sky, but the ...

Universal Filmed Entertainment Group has its head in the cloud — and now it’s going to push its production teams there. The company has embarked on a major multiyear strategy to move its studios’ film ...

Animal Logic CTO Darin Grant has detailed the speed in which animation creatives can look forward to producing in the future, noting that leveraging the cloud doesn't mean a film can be finished ...

Since the beginning of time, the evolution of technology has changed our habits, routines and environment continually, and it is no different in the world of animation, where technology has played a ...

To bring animated movies to life, production studios must assemble hundreds of animators and equip them with state-of-the-art tools—requiring months of set-up and huge capital investment. SummuS ...

Alibaba Group Holding's cloud computing arm has introduced its updated artificial intelligence (AI) model, Animate Anyone 2, which the company touts as simplifying the animation of lifelike characters ...

It took 29 hours per frame to turn the Sully character from Monsters University into the image viewers saw of him on screen. This process of converting a 3D model into a 2D image is called rendering ...

Illumination Mac Guff, the animation house behind Despicable Me and its upcoming Minions spinoff, has turned to Avere Systems' FXT Edge cloud solution to ensure its animators have all the computing ...

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