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Nvidia Reveals GTC 2021 Keynote was (Nearly) ENTIRELY CGI/AI
NB. – This article has been updated to reflect clarifications made to us by Nvidia regarding some confusion surrounding the original blog post they made. Immediately prior to the release of Nvidia’s GTC 2021 keynote video, the tech giant dropped more than a few hints for people to keep their…
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Studio Ghibli Releases its First Full CGI Movie Trailer
Around the beginning of the year, we got the truly excellent news that Studio Ghibli was officially back in the business of making feature-length animated films. While it’s known that the legend himself, Hayao Miyasaki, is currently working on one hand-drawn project (in keeping with the amazing visual tradition of…
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Studio Ghibli’s First CGI Feature To Release This Winter
We recently reported on how Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyasaki was currently working on a new (and fully hand-animated) feature film. During that article, however, we also mentioned the fact that his son, Goro, was also working on an entirely separate CGI based project. One that would represent the animation studios…
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Disney Releases Trailer For New CGI Lion King Remake
Disney Releases Trailer For New CGI Lion King Remake Many people have a rather soft spot in their heart for the Lion King. The animated film, which released in 1994 marked a recent upturn in the quality (and also quantity) of Disney films. The ’80s hadn’t been particularly kind to…
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Hayao Miyasaki Documentary On Computer Animated Short
Hayao Miyasaki Documentary On Computer Animated Short Hayao Miyasaki is one of the best-known names in the animation industry. As the founder of Studio Ghibli, he is well-known for creating some of the most-loved animation features in recent years including My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away. Following his retirement in…
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New Alita: Battle Angel Trailer Shows Off Spectacular CG Action
New Battle Packed Trailer for Alita The latest official trailer for Alita: Battle Angel was recently screened at SDCC 2018 to the roaring delight of fans. James Cameron‘s ambitious adaptation of the manga from the early 90’s is a long time coming. In fact, Cameron has stated before that he…
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Hayao Miyazaki Calls AI-crafted Animation: “An Insult to Life Itself”
The legendary Hayao Miyazaki was not amused upon seeing AI-crafted animation calling it an “Insult to life itself”. The award-winning Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli fame, creator of such classic anime as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, was shown the video demo by Nobuo Kawakami, a producer-in-training at…
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James Cameron Now Wants Five Avatar Films
After the success of Avatar at the box office, James Cameron revealed he wanted not one but two sequels to the film. This has now changed as Cameron now wants five Avatar films in total, all before 2024. Avatar is often seen as the first film to truly introduce viewers…
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Pixar Celebrates 20 Years With Special Video
Wow has it been that long already, Pixar is celebrating 20-years in the industry and given me an unwelcome reminder of my own age. In that 20 years, I’ve been a big fan of every movie Pixar has made, perhaps with the exception of Cars, but I digress. I loved…
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Remembering Robin Williams 1yr On
Yesterday (August 11th) marked the one year anniversary since the passing of Robin Williams, who was a beloved, charismatic and exciting comedian, actor and personality. Uniqueness is overused within today’s generic saturation of celebrity; Robin Williams was without a doubt unique and creative. His career spanned the silverscreen which included…
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Brad Bird Starts Writing The Incredibles 2
Writer/director Brad Bird has revealed that he has recently started work on the script for Disney-Pixar’s sequel to 2004’s animated action comedy The Incredibles. Bird told NPR’s Ask Me Another, “It’s percolating. I mean, I’m just starting to write it, so we’ll see what happens.” Pixar Animation Studios, an innovator…
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Microsoft Launches MS-DOS App for Mobile Devices
Microsoft is going old-school this April Fools’ Day has launched an MS-DOS app for mobile. The app appears to be just like the real thing, having to navigate around by typing DIR in order to list available apps and using CD to enter directories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irJQDGw8Ptk If you navigate to the…
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Toy Story 4 Coming in 2017
The Toy Story franchise may already be a well-rounded trilogy, but given that Toy Story 3 grossed over a billion dollars on its own, Pixar would be crazy to not make another. Fortunately for fans of Buzz, Woody, Andy and more, Pixar have already started work on their next installment. Disney head…
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Disney Renders Its New CGI Film on a 55,000-Core Supercomputer.
Prepare your CPU’s – the new bad boy in computer animation processing has arrived at Disney’s studio – a 55,000-core monster supercomputer, and it’s pumping out over 400,000 high level computations per day. What’s it currently at work at you ask? Disney’s new animated film Big Hero: 6. The film tells the tale…
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First-ever Fully Computer-Animated Series “Reboot” Making A Comeback
If you’re old enough to remember Reboot it was the first full computer animated cartoon series on TV, if you’re not sure how old that makes you feel let’s keep in mind that it is about to have it’s 20th anniversary in the new year! The show launched in 1994.…
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