Lost Art: How CG Killed Hand-Drawn Animation at Disney

While blockbuster CG-animated films like Toy Story 5 dominate the big screen today, let's take a look back at how hand-drawn ...

Disney’s Imagineering Arm Using Adobe’s Firefly AI Models for Park Designs

Disney's Imagineering Research & Development unit is using Adobe’s Firefly Foundry to help Imagineers design and visualize ...
Cartoon Brew

Amazon Unveils Its First GenAI Animation Projects, Including A New Series From Jorge Gutierrez

UPDATE: Gutierrez got back to us to clarify how he plans to use the technology with this project: It’s a big experiment for me and I will be as cautious as possible with AI. Artists driving tech, and ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Amazon Launching AI Creators Fund, Picks Up Three Animated Prime Video Shows That Use Its New Tech

The projects include work from 'Maya and the Three’ director Jorge Gutierrez, former Nickelodeon exec Albie Hecht and Buzzfeed Studios. By Katie Kilkenny, Alex Weprin Amazon is embarking on a major ...
Yahoo

5 ways daily cannabis use can affect your body and mind

Monica Romano was 13 when she first tried cannabis in the 1980s. It started out as a social way to spend a Friday night behind the bleachers at football games, she said, but it soon became a daily ...
GQ

Is Everyone Using AI Better Than Me?

Artificial intelligence might be the only thing that Americans hate and/or fear as much as one another. Fun fact: According to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, 55 percent of Americans believe ...
Electrek

Americans can now use healthcare funds to buy e-bikes at a huge discount

For many Americans, the idea of buying an electric bike with healthcare funds probably sounds somewhere between confusing and too good to be true. But increasingly, that’s becoming a real option. And ...
Condé Nast Traveler

How Americans Can Use eGates to Avoid Lengthy Lines at UK Airports This Summer

For travelers arriving in the UK, the fastest line at passport control is often the one with no border officer at all. Now, the UK is expanding the program again. Beginning July 8, the minimum age for ...
The New Yorker

Will A.I. Make College Obsolete?

This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. A few weeks ago, while I was dealing with taxes, it occurred to me that the money my wife and I were putting ...
collider

Only 5 Animated Movies in the 2020s Can Be Considered True Masterpieces

David is a Senior Editor at Collider focused primarily on Lists. His professional journey began in the mid-2010s as a Marketing specialist before embarking on his writing career in the 2020s. At ...
Forbes

Now You Can Create Your Own Character In ‘Crimson Desert’

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. There are many debates about Kliff, the lead character in Crimson Desert, who is almost ...