Japan’s Toei Animation Impresses at Annecy With ‘Monkey Quest,’ a Japan-U.S. Animation Blender

Made by production teams from the U.S and Japan and beyond, Toei’s “Monkey Quest” shows the U.S. and Japan move closer ...

11 best anime you can watch for free on streaming right now

Anime is more widely accessible than ever before. Platforms like Crunchyroll and HIDIVE have established a monopoly over the ...
The Economist

The strange disappearance of Japan’s animators

You’d think the number of animators would grow accordingly, but it didn’t increase that much,” said Fukumiya Ayano, of Nippon ...
GitHub

SCAIL-2: Unifying Controlled Character Animation with End-to-end In-Context Conditioning

SCAIL-1 identifies the key bottlenecks that hinder character animation towards production level: how to represent the pose and how to inject the pose. However, the reliance on intermediate pose ...
GitHub

VTKBlender: VTK and Blender

VTK is a great visualization library and Blender is a fantastic rendering and animation suite. This software uses the python interpreter inside Blender to give access to VTK routines. It should be ...