China's film market staged a powerful comeback in 2025, with annual ticket sales rising nearly 22 percent to approximately 51.83 billion yuan (about 7.37 billion U.S. dollars), fueled by an unpreceden ...

Journalist Wilson Liévano spent his 2013 JSK Fellowship year exploring ways to use data animation to tell stories. He created Animated Press, a news animation studio and has produced animations ...

The Teaching & Learning Center at UC Santa Cruz is delighted to announce that Dr. Jessica Kendall-Bar has created an open access version of her Data-Driven Animation for Science Communication course, ...

The whole thing came to light as Toei Animation posted its Q1 data for the 2025 fiscal year. The new data breaks down the IPs that are performing best at Toei in terms of licensing. After a dip in the ...

Over the years, animation has gone from traditional, 2D, hand-drawn artwork to software-designed, 3D projects utilizing full-scale computer rendering. DreamWorks Animation is at the top of the pack in ...

Google wants to be the Giphy for turning boring data into awesome animated illustrations – sort of. The search engine titan announced it has launched a handy animation tool that essentially lets you ...

When we talk about artificial intelligence in games, we usually picture smarter or more realistic enemies that don’t come off as mindless automatons. New research, though, is showing how an AI powered ...

Though the production of an animation involves an even broader range of reference use, no such system exists for describing source usage. Data may be pruned, extracted or interpolated in ways that ...

Even in the midst of great tragedy, there can be a light of relief which shines through. The staff at Kyoto Animation learned as much recently in the wake of a tragic fire. After the company was ...