Behind the scenes of most movie special effects are computers crunching intense mathematical equations. And some of the most complex types of animation equations describe fluid motion: anything from ...

The human characters in Disney's new 3-D film "Mars Needs Moms" have been criticized as appearing – get this – too lifelike. But isn't realistic animation a good thing? Not exactly, according to the ...

At least this is official news… sort of (Picture: Hossein Diba) Rockstar Games has finally said something official about GTA 6… not in public but via a patent for an ambitious new animation technology ...

Video: More about Uncanny Valley Syndrome from MOCH it. Rhesus macaques are a species of monkey often used in behavioral and neurophysiology research, but this research is hard to reproduce because ...

A new paper authored by researchers from Disney Research and several universities describes a new approach to procedural speech animation based on deep learning. The system samples audio recordings of ...

A new “forensic animation”, made by Eyewithness Animationas and published by several media outlets, provides the most detailed and realistic look (in terms of airspeeds, altitudes, etc. ATC audio ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

Cornell researchers have developed a new and much quicker method for rendering hair in computer graphics that promises to make blond (and other light-colored) hair more realistic. Poets and novelists ...

Animation in film and video games is hard to make realistic: each action typically requires creating a separate controller, while deep reinforcement learning has yet to generate realistic human or ...

D A L L A S, XXXX -- Michael Serge, a retired Scranton, Pa., police officer, claims he was "only protecting himself" when his wife came at him with a knife and he shot her. But for the first time in a ...