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Monster Mash affordable and accessible 3D Animation by Google AI
Google is always full of surprises when it comes to technology. 3D Animation which takes many years to master, is now made simple with Monster Mash. Now you can easily create 2D drawings, inflate the drawings and add control points. Now your animatio
Shutterstock acquires 3D Models website TurboSquid for $75M - signals that future photography without camera
Shutterstock, Inc., a leading global creative platform announced that it pays $75 million, to acquire TurboSquid, Inc., positioning Shutterstock as the world’s largest 3D marketplace. Shutterstock’s investment in this sector indicates that photography won’t always involve cameras in future. For over 20 years, TurboSquid has been a 3D industry leader, offering a unified 3D workflow, and operating a marketplace offering of more than one million 3D models, a 2D marketplace derived from 3D objects, and a digital asset management solution offered on...
New 3D Printed Houses - Know the Future of Architecture Design
Owning a house is the most challenging task. Only a few fortunate people can grab a space, naming it their home. If you get one and can hold a home, you will be paying a mortgage all the best part of your life.  Serendix Partners propose to offer 3D-printed houses to the public. They have announced plans to launch in 2021 futuristic homes. They are using a robot to create a 3D-print of the house and it will be automated, ensuring low costs. It is assumed that a 30-cubic-meter home costs 3,000,000 yen. It implies no mortgages for the long-term. The biggest...
Animation: Escape- An Animated Short film, shot within a span of four days using VR. VR is still in development mode, since most animators still take the help of 2d animation to build a story line and characters. What is so special about this short animation -Escape is the storyline, animations have all been created within the VR environment. Nick Ladd used both drawing software Quill and the VR animation program Animivr to create a virtual 3D space, which is completed with frame to frame animations. Escape vr animation by nick ladd Escape - A Short animation...
The MSI Creator Award for 3D Animations continues to motivate creative designers around the world to bring out their talent. Latest technology developments have revolutionized the ways in which art can be created. The contest expects animations with wild imagination and limitless creativity from animators. Theme: Let your inspiration take off and shine like no other. Deadline Closing date for submission: 13 May 2020 Public Voting: 14-20 May 2020 Winner Announcement: 21 May 2020 Guidelines for the animation The animation video should be no longer than 1 min in...
Celebrate a weekend full of fun(February 14 -16th) at TAAFI and experience the world's best animation shorts. Toronto’s animation festival brings you eye-popping shorts and features from around the world February 14-16. The animated person of the year will receive a Kaj Pindal Award. Past recipients of Kaj Pindal Award are Marv Newland and Dean DeBlois( How to Train your Dragon), Ray Harry hausen and more. TAAFI is a non-profit volunteer organization, supported by many of the leading animation studios and industry organizations throughout the year as well...
Animation Festival: We celebrate the works of all animators across all age groups. Here you will find the latest news, updates, contest details on all 3D animation, 2d animation, 3d software, 3d animation software from across the world. Animation Festivals occur annually or bi-annually, so based on your interest you can apply for the animation contests. These animation festivals bring out the best in the animators, since their short animations 3d softwares will be viewed by a larger audience. During the animation festivals, workshops will be conducted by talented...
VFX: VIEW Conference and View Fest is one of the most happening events in Turin,Italy since the conference and fest mostly covers Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, 2D/3D Animation, VR and AR, Gaming and VFX. There is a lot of advancement in technology, which the experienced speakers will be talking on their show during the conference. Graphic designers, illustrators around the world, it's time to prepare your resumes, since you will be meeting with top industry professionals, film makers, VFX experts, Video game specialists, Animators and...
Design: Pixel Lab encourages people who have a talent to make their home projects with immense detail and passion. To honor the passionate steam punk model designers around the world, a new contest alert has been started by Pixel Lab. The new modeling, texture, light, rendering and learning contest theme is 'Transportation'. The steampunk model design can be any kind of vehicle like airplane, train, stations bus stop, motorized/un-motorized which can be based on real life or sci-fi. The model design pictures can be sent to  joren@thepixellab.net.. Entry...
3D Animation Contest : 'The Rookie' is an annual contest which is currently accepting entries for 3D, animation, virtual reality, motion graphics, games and film. The contest is sponsored by Autodesk and it serves as a platform for agencies to recruit the best candidates for the animation industry. It's a global contest and participants aged 18+ can take part by submitting their entries. The rookie is more like a mentor program, where knowledge is shared and the winners get internships from industry best companies. The winners can walk away with sponsor...
Animation: It's the 6th edition of the Ideatoon by Pixelatl and it helps in promoting young directors in bringing their concepts alive in animation feature films. This event serves a common floor to connect directors and producers so they can achieve their dreams. This year the top winner will receive a grant of $5,500 alongwith with access to Cartoon Connection Canada and a visit to the animation studio in Los Angeles. You can submit your animation projects here:Pixelatl.com/es-MX/contenidos/2B2F65C3-1434-494C-B755-DF128C6D26C6/Convocatoria_Ideatoon_2018.html...
Animation Movie : The 2018 International Berlin Film Festival Commenced on 15th Feb and ended on 25th Feb. Two animation entries won titles in the prestigious Berlin Film Festivals which was held recently. Wes Anderson, director of Isle of Dogs has won the 'Best Director' Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Another coincidence, the stop motion movie 'Isle of Dogs' was shown at the opening ceremony in the history of Berlin Film Festival. It's a milestone achievement for the animation movies. Wes Anderson was unavailable to collect the award, so one of the voice...
3D Animation Short film : Maxime MaxOfS2D Lebled, a workshop artist and animator has given a hat-trick win of titles for his latest short film "what does a hero truly fear". He has quiet a lot of contributions as workshop items, primarily as a rigger or one who choreographs animation. Maxime has done exorcism animations for the "Mothbinder" item for Death Prophet and famous faceless Rex courier. Animation he did are freaking cool and are appealing. His winning film “What does a hero truly fear?” tells a short but entertaining film that uses Bane...
3D: Disney Pixar's 'Coco' - 3d Animation Feature Film is all set to become the winner in the race for Oscars. Currently atleast 27 out of 31 film critics have voted 'Coco' for the Best Animated Feature Film. If Disney's Coco wins the title this year, it will be the 10th successive win for the Walt Disney Company. Apart from Coco, these four animated feature films are in the race: Loving Vincent, The Lego Batman Movie, My Life as a Zucchini and The Breadwinner. Coco is a 2017, 3d animation movie which strongly revolves around music and the love for family. Miguel...
Animation : France's Academie Des Arts have announced it's Cesar Awards for it's Animation Category. The short film and feature film categories have been announced. The Cesar Awards is similar to the Oscar Awards. The Award ceremony will be held in Paris on March 2nd 2018. The nominations for Animation Feature Film is: The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales Big bad wolf animation film nominee Sahara by Pierre Core Sahara animation film nomiee Zombillenium by Arthur De Pins Zombillenium animation film nominee Short Animation Categories are: Le...
Animation: BAFTA awards are big deal since they are similar to the oscar awards. The British Academy film awards have three categories for animation: animated feature, british short animation and special visual effects. The most awaited 2018 BAFTA awards is all set to take place on February 18, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. If Disney's Coco bags an award at the BAFTA, we can say that Coco is all around winner at many of the film awards and hope to see more of them in the coming years. Nominees for Animated Feature Film are: Bafta nominee coco disney pixar...