Motion capture can look great or cheap, but these 10 characters represent the best examples of how the technology can bring ...

Much of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is set in the Oasis, a virtual reality world full of digital avatars, game and film characters, and expansive cg environments. To produce that world, the ...

Artists are hardworking—they gladly embrace long, tedious multi-step processes in search of magic! This is probably why in the early 1900s, Émile Cohl hand-drew 700 drawings to bring life to his paper ...

The Golden Globes, awarded annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., has revised its rules for the animated feature category. The winner of the category has gone on to win the Oscar in six of the ...

One of the ways game developers add realism to character motion is through the use of motion capture technology. An actor dons a specialized suit and performs motions, and these motions are captured ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations ...