Generative AI is ‘Divisive’ as Animation Industry Embraces Innovative Production Tools: Report

The animation sector is grappling with divisive questions of how to integrate AI-powered tools into production, according to a report from Luminate.
IndieWire

Bron Launches Virtual Production Division to Power ‘Unreal’ Animation

VFX vet Jason Chen will oversee Bron Digital's virtual production workflow with Unreal for stylized motion-capture-based content. Vancouver-based Bron Media Corp. (“Greyhound”) has launched Bron ...
Digital Production

Cascadeur Mobile 3D Animation Now on Android

Cascadeur Mobile is now available for Android. The AI-assisted 3D animation app brings desktop tools to mobile devices with ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Netflix Animation Studios and ‘Ted’ Series Production Workers Launch Unionization Drives

The staffers are attempting to join the Animation Guild, which continues to organize aggressively inside the production space. By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media Reporter The Animation Guild has launched ...
Yahoo

DreamWorks Production Workers to Join Animation Guild

The Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839) announced two more big developments in its campaign to unionize animation production workers, adding employees at DreamWorks and Australian outlet Flying Bark ...
Los Angeles Times

Hollywood’s animation workers are unionizing at a rapid pace. Here’s why

Em Hagen stood before a window on the fifth floor of their Burbank office and waved at what they hoped was the right silver Toyota Prius zipping down Bob Hope Drive in October. Hagen, 27, was trying ...
New York Post

Animation production still going strong despite coronavirus crisis

As Hollywood production has ground to a halt over the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, there is one area that been able to keep the lights on for the most part — animation. As new episodes of “The ...