Computer animation is a task both delicate and tedious, requiring the manipulation of a computer model into a series of poses over time saved as keyframes, further refined by adjusting how the ...

Robots of the entertainment industry are given life by character animation, where the goal is to emotionally connect with the audience to tell a story. In comparison, real-world robot movement design ...

…the BlockParty procedural rigging system, the Premo character animation system, the Presto Animation System’s high-performance execution system, the Nuke compositing system and the mechanical design ...

Joe Letteri, Oscar-winning co-creator of Gollum on screen, looks at the evolution of computer animation as the next instalment of The Hobbit trilogy reaches cinemas. Computer animation is a natural ...