To bring animated movies to life, production studios must assemble hundreds of animators and equip them with state-of-the-art tools—requiring months of set-up and huge capital investment. SummuS ...

This week, Summus Render released Simple Animation, its secure and scalable cloud-based virtual animation and vfx platform, which allows producers of all sizes to effortlessly set up remote ...

Animation is a great way to communicate complicated scientific concepts. It’s less ambiguous than illustration when showing how processes occur, and is better at displaying 3D structures. Animation is ...

Ever watched a video where elements smoothly move, change size, or transform, and wondered how it's done? Welcome to the world of keyframe animations! If you're new to video editing and animation, ...

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Boinx Software recently updated iStopMotion, to version 3, making its stop motion animation tool for Mac OS X, even better The new version adds the ability to create HD movies using an iPhone, iPad or ...

Create stunning cartoons with zero skills, with this smart animation app loved by Oscar nominees. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals You don’t need to go to intensive animation school for years, or work with ...

Animation used to be incredibly labor intensive. Sketch out a drawing, use ink or paint to shape it exactly the way you want it, then start the whole process over again for the next cel. Do that a ...

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