Animation tools are an essential part of the process for a digital artist, game developer, or character designer. Seeing your animated illustrations is a pretty cool feeling, and whether your animation is super short and simple or a complete cartoon, bringing them to life with movement gives them an excitingRead More →
Tvori Creativity Software has moved to a subscription pricing model with the addition of new animation tools intended to make the software more useful to VR and augmented reality designers. Tvori is a set of creative tools that has been in early access on Steam since 2016. Usually priced aroundRead More →
Procreate, the popular art and illustration app for iPad, will receive a major update to Procreate 5 later this year. The upcoming features of the new version were detailed by the creator of the app at Lightbox Expo today. According to the company, users can expect a new, more powerfulRead More →
Never work with animals or children, that’s what they tell you in the ‘biz. Too unpredictable, requires a lot of attention and cannot be controlled. But Frontier took a closer look at these seemingly negative attributes with the new Planet Zoo management simulation, and displays them as proof of eachRead More →
Rockstar Games is hiring for their next-gen projects and the job listing suggests they are looking to further improve their facial animation technology with upcoming games. Rockstar Games is the pioneer of new technologies in the industry. They just released Red Dead Redemption 2 which is a cutting edge gameRead More →
In “15 Tools for Animation”, I presented easy to use animation tools for content marketing. But animation can also add design to a site, to improve the visitor experience. Here is a list of animation tools for design. There are plugins and libraries for simple transitions and effects, as wellRead More →
Virtual reality artists using the Quill VR drawing app designed for the Oculus Rift and its Touch motion controllers. May be interested to learn that the new update has been rolled out to the VR painting app, adding a number of new features including animation tools. Quill was first launchedRead More →
Autodesk announces updates to VR and gaming tools for game developers and more… in Maya and Stingray. SIGGRAPH 2016 is underway this week in Anaheim, Calif., And today Autodesk announced upgrades to its virtual reality capabilities and 3D animation tools for indie game developers at the show. Still a popularRead More →
Last September, Google launched Web Designer, a free tool for Mac, Windows, and Linux that makes it easy for anyone to create interactive HTML5 sites and ads. Since its launch, Web designer got some minor updates, but today Release is the first major update in a long time and bringsRead More →
Source Filmmaker puts animation controls in the hands of those of us who don’t have render farms. Valve officially announcement the beta version of its Source Filmmaker, a free tool that allows users to create animated movies using assets from Team Fortress 2. The company notes that all of itsRead More →