The market for 2D animation is still expanding quickly, and demand for excellent visual material is rising in a number of industries, including marketing, education, and gaming. It’s vital to remember ...

The children's TV show Twirlywoos may have stopped airing in 2017, but thanks to streaming, toddlers are still being delighted by it. And for one golden retriever, the show still very much feels like ...

An enormous sun looms overhead in the gallery space. Somehow, it throbs and pulses with lights that render its surface active and alive. An austere rocky landscape inside another gallery reveals a ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have invented a display technology for on-screen graphics that are both visible and haptic, meaning they can be felt via touch. The screens are patterned with tiny ...

Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo have developed a neural-network-based 3D imaging technique that can precisely measure moving objects—a task long considered extremely challenging for ...

Animation is one medium that crosses age groups, countries, cultures, and even industries. Disney fairy tales, Japanese anime, short explainer videos, and massive CGI spectacles of modern Hollywood; ...

In today’s hyper-visual global economy, content that resonates emotionally and communicates clearly has become indispensable. As brands race to translate their values into compelling visual languages, ...

Taylor Swift's new song Opalite is all about transformation. She sings about turning darkness ("onyx nights") into brightness ("make your own sunshine"). Like the shimmering human-made gem it's named ...

The materiality of images—how they can seem textured, the way each frame is composed, whether they were shot digitally or on 16mm—compels us to experience the kind of dualities that define our lived ...

ShapesXR (2021), the 3D and XR prototyping platform, just got a new animation feature that allows design teams to make their XR prototypes even more expressive and lifelike. The studio says the new ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world. Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world. You might not realize it, but everything from AI ...