Climate Change Animation ‘Black Butterflies’ Has Conquered Spain and Latin America — Now It Hopes to Take Flight in the U.S.

With an original song from Grammy-winning artist Rubén Blades, the film’s director and producer look to tackle the U.S.: ...
Tech Xplore

An AI approach for single-image-based 3D character animation with preserved proportions

In Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers, a research team affiliated with UNIST reports a new AI technology ...
Polygon

How the Adventure Time team reunited (sort of) to make 2025’s wildest cartoon

In the early 1900s, sometime between the end of World War I and the start of WWII, a bunch of surrealist artists got together and invented a game. In Exquisite Corpse, a small group works together to ...
bleedingcool

The Elephant: Our Preview of Tonight's Adult Swim Animation Event

Pendleton Ward on Getting Involved with "The Elephant": "Well, it's cool to be involved in experimental art. I think it all started the beginning of this past year. It all happened pretty quickly. It ...
bleedingcool

The Elephant: Adult Swim's Animation Jam Session Gets Official Trailer

"Every year around this time, we try to give the Adult Swim audience a gift they didn't know they needed, and this year, it's 'Adult Swim's The Elephant,'" said Michael Ouweleen, president of Adult ...
Variety

‘Adult Swim’s The Elephant’: Pendleton Ward, Rebecca Sugar and Patrick McHale Team Up for Mysterious Animation Special

Patrick McHale (“Over the Garden Wall”), Ian Jones-Quartey (“OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes”), Rebecca Sugar (“Steven Universe”) and Pendleton Ward (“Adventure Time”) are teaming up for “Adult Swim’s The ...
CU Boulder News & Events

New open-source software allows for efficient 3D printing with multiple materials

A new open-source tool is reshaping how engineers design multi-material objects. Charles Wade, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at CU Boulder, has created a design ...
PC Gamer

Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters

Nvidia has announced that its Audio2Face animation technology is going open source. On paper, that should make it much easier for a wide range of game developers to create AI characters with ...
PC Gamer

FPS legend John Romero says Wolfenstein 3D was the first game id Software took its time with⁠—a luxurious 4-month development instead of just 2

In a recent appearance on Nightdive Studios' Deep Dive podcast, Doom designer John Romero talked about the ways id Software casually revolutionized PC gaming in the early '90s, all on a blistering ...
Live Science

Watch this cute robot elephant go bowling — it's the first 3D-printed robot of its kind

Researchers have unveiled a miniature robot elephant with special 3D-printed "tissues" that allow for more complex and natural movements. A video shows the elephant grasp a flower with its trunk and ...
EurekAlert!

Elephant robot demonstrates bioinspired 3D printing technology

A cheetah’s powerful sprint, a snake’s lithe slither, or a human’s deft grasp: each is made possible by the seamless interplay between soft and rigid tissues. Muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones ...