LOS ANGELES - Computer animation has a problem: When it gets too realistic, it starts creeping people out. Most recently, moviegoers complained about the near-realistic depiction of humans in Disney's ...

Behind the scenes of most movie special effects are computers crunching intense mathematical equations. And some of the most complex types of animation equations describe fluid motion: anything from ...

The human characters in Disney's new 3-D film "Mars Needs Moms" have been criticized as appearing – get this – too lifelike. But isn't realistic animation a good thing? Not exactly, according to the ...

At least this is official news… sort of (Picture: Hossein Diba) Rockstar Games has finally said something official about GTA 6… not in public but via a patent for an ambitious new animation technology ...

Video: More about Uncanny Valley Syndrome from MOCH it. Rhesus macaques are a species of monkey often used in behavioral and neurophysiology research, but this research is hard to reproduce because ...

A new “forensic animation”, made by Eyewithness Animationas and published by several media outlets, provides the most detailed and realistic look (in terms of airspeeds, altitudes, etc. ATC audio ...

A new paper authored by researchers from Disney Research and several universities describes a new approach to procedural speech animation based on deep learning. The system samples audio recordings of ...

A recently registered patent by Take-Two Interactive is hinting at GTA 6 having an incredibly realistic animation system for characters and objects. Take-Two Interactive has patented a new locomotion ...