Whether you're an artist, advertising specialist, or just looking to spruce up your home, turning everyday objects into dynamic displays is a great way to make them more visually engaging. For example ...

Xencelabs Technologies and Full Sail University are joining forces to give computer animation and gaming students an education in the digital technologies used in today's professional creative ...

Researchers at Purdue University are creating interactive software that artists could use to make realistic animations of cloud formations, explosions, smoke, steam, fog and other gaseous phenomena ...

Whether you decided to become a professional animator, or need basic animation skills for your business or just for fun, here is the list of 6 easiest free animation software for beginners. But what ...

“That sounds like less work, but it tripled the work because the computer animation software was used to an image in every frame. So we had to create new algorithms for everything,” he said.

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CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos reports from this year's Siggraph show that advances in digital technology are rapidly changing Hollywood's approach to film animation. Michael Kanellos is editor at ...

The same software might also be used by meteorologists to create accurate representations of quickly developing weather conditions. Because the software is interactive, it shows results immediately, ...