Autodesk's new Flow Studio AI update offers 'automated rigging'.

From blockbuster films to intricate stop-motion animations, 3D printing is changing how props, costumes, and characters are made. Filmmakers and animators now combine digital sculpting with rapid ...

Completely 3D printed – even the lenses – then painted helmet prop produced by Thingergy, Los Angeles. Movie makers have the creative vision, but it’s the prop maker’s job to bring that creative ...

The real-life Laika — a Russian street dog who became the first animal launched into orbit — lasted mere hours in space, but paved the way for humans to eventually follow in her tracks. Today, the ...

“Without the use of 3D printing, and the capabilities of the Stratasys J750 full-color-multi-material 3D Printer, we simply could not have completed the build in time,” said Richard Pickersgill, ...

After years of AI disrupting industries and streamlining repetitive workflows, the technology is now poised to transform animation. In 2024, director and writer Tom Paton’s AiMation Studios released ...

Focusing on using the Risograph as an animation tool, this course will explore how to print animations with the Riso, achieve color separations for moving-image sequences, rotoscope atop printed ...

We’ve all seen 3D printed zoetropes, and drawn flip book animations in the corner of notebooks. The shifting, fluid shape of the layers forming on a 3D printer is satisfying. And we all know the joy ...