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Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold "Historic" Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: "GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them"

Representatives of international animation, screenwriters and actors guilds staged a protest at the Annecy Animation Film Festival on Thursday to voice their fears over the implications of generative ...
Variety

‘Robot Will Protect You’ Director on How Crowdfunding, Technology have Changed Animation

Italian director Nicola Piovesan had a script from award-winning English screenwriter Matt Willis-Jones’ that he wanted to turn into animated short. But, for his Estonia-based Chaosmonger Studios to ...
Tech.co

How Technology Heralds a Golden Era for Animation Storytelling

The advanced evolution of technology has brought a golden era in animation storytelling. For decades, the fast-growing world of technology has influenced animation from the formative years of the ...
USA Today

Fact check: Artificial womb facility animation is a 'concept,' technology doesn't yet exist

A Dec. 12, 2022, Facebook post (direct link, archived link) features a digital depiction of an "artificial womb facility." The animation shows rows of fetuses in clear, football-shaped pods inside a ...
VentureBeat

Epic Games acquires facial animation technology maker Cubic Motion

Epic Games has acquired Cubic Motion, a provider of automated performance-driven facial animation technology for video games, film, broadcast, and immersive experiences such as virtual reality. Cubic ...
Polygon

FIFA 22’s HyperMotion is ‘the beginning of machine learning taking over animation’

Owen S. Good is a longtime veteran of video games writing, well known for his coverage of sports and racing games. “We started working on an algorithm about three years ago,” explained Rivera, FIFA 22 ...