Deadline.com

Webtoon Entertainment & Warner Bros. Animation To Co-Produce 10 Webtoon Series For Global Distribution

Webtoon Entertainment is set to enter a deal with Warner Bros. Animation to co-produce a slate of 10 fan-favorite Webtoon series for global distribution. The partnership is a “significant expansion of ...
The Verge

Nvidia is letting anyone use its AI voice animation tech

Nvidia is open sourcing Audio2Face, its AI tool that generates facial animations for 3D avatars based on audio input. Nvidia is open sourcing Audio2Face, its AI tool that generates facial animations ...
Variety

Artists at Netflix Animation, SpindleHorse and ‘Ted’ Move to Unionize with Animation Guild

Production workers at Netflix Animation, animation artists at SpindleHorse and production workers at “Ted” have made the movie to unionize with Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839 (TAG). These campaigns ...
Gizmodo

Animation Studio Toei Wants to Use AI for Future Productions

If you watch anime, particularly of the shonen variety, you likely know Toei Animation. The studio is best known for adapting popular manga like Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon, and it’s got plenty of ...
The Hollywood Reporter

California, Once a Mecca for Animation Work, Is Rapidly Losing Ground, Report Claims

According to a new study from the Animation Guild and partner organizations, California’s share of the highest-grossing animated films dropped 40 percent between 2010 and 2023. By Katie Kilkenny Labor ...
Android Authority

First look at Android's slick new animations for its big expressive redesign

Google is adding expressive new animations to Android for interactions like dismissing notifications and toggling settings. Physics-based notification dismissals, shape-shifting Quick Setting tiles, ...
TechCrunch

AI animation startup Cheehoo lands $10M funding from Greycroft

Creating animation is a time-consuming process, requiring multiple steps, including storyboarding, rendering, composition, and lighting to craft a single scene. If a director wants to experiment with ...
Deadline.com

Rodeo FX Acquires Technicolor Group’s Mikros Animation

Montreal-based VFX firm Rodeo FX, the visual effects credits of which include Games of Thrones, Stranger Things, The Rings of Power, John Wick: Chapter 4 and Dune, has acquired former Technicolor ...
Variety

VFX and Animation Studio Cinesite Raises $215 Million On the Heels of Technicolor Collapse

The Cinesite group, a global visual effects and animation studio collectives, has raised $215 million through a series of transactions “to support its continued operations, technological innovation ...
Los Angeles Times

Animation Guild board defends contract deal as some members critique AI terms

As Hollywood grapples with worries about the threat of artificial intelligence, the union that represents animators is facing dissent over its latest deal with major studios. Three Animation Guild ...
Los Angeles Times

Animation Guild reaches tentative deal with Hollywood studios

The union that represents animators has reached a new contract deal with the major Hollywood studios after more than three months of bargaining, securing pay increases and artificial intelligence ...