The Economist

Triumph of the toons: how animation came to rule the box office

Animated films have surged from 2.8% of the American and Canadian film market in 1995 to 23.9% in 2024, with universal themes ...

NotebookLM now uses Gemini, Nano Banana, and Veo to animate your Video Overviews

Leveraging the full AI stack ...

Bungie explains Marathon’s creepy moth loading screen

Nardin confirmed that this particular loading screen is a “sense-memory” or “sense-mem” that plays on a loop. “In-universe, ...

Simulation makes it possible to study movements of cell's largest protein complexes without supercomputers

Large protein machines in the body carry out many of the cell's most essential tasks, from energy production to the ...

How facial performance capture has evolved from Avengers Infinity War to The Fantastic Four First Steps

Part of pursuing that edge has been the development of Digital Domain’s proprietary software Masquerade. This new system uses images of the actor’s face from a helmet-mounted camera and automatically ...

Watch How the ‘Sinners’ VFX Team Makes the Dead Look Alive

Watch some of the VFX process that brought 'Sinners' director Ryan Coogler's ideas about real-time twins and an IMAX oner for ...