DreamWorks' award-winning trilogy 'How to Train Your Dragon' made advancements with every episode, most recently its rendering software MoonRay, which made the Hidden World glow. By Carolyn Giardina ...

GLENDALE, Calif.—DreamWorks Animation has announced plans to release their proprietary production renderer, MoonRay, as open source software later this year. MoonRay is DreamWorks’ state-of-the-art ...

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Cartoonists can already get their hands on Pixar's rendering software. Now, they can also download Toonz animation software, a program used by the legendary Studio Ghibli, Engadget reports. Debuting ...

An after school program is teaching children in Brooklyn how to create stop motion animation. The fourth- and fifth-grade students at P.S. 212 are learning the art of stop motion animation. Stop ...

In an unheated, defunct imperial knife factory in Providence, Rhode Island, a small team of young Brown and Rhode Island School of Design grads used task lamps to keep their fingers warm as they typed ...

PROVO — Spencer Baird knew "Student Accomplice" was a good idea when he came up with it. From the moment he pitched it to a friend in his BYU animation class, it "just stuck in (his) head." What he ...

Women in Animation has partnered with Animation Mentor and Toon Boom to expand the organization’s WIA Scholarship Program with workshops and software packages. WIA scholarships are given to animation ...

Women in Animation (WiA) has released a featurette during Annecy Film Festival highlighting the valuable work of its mentorship program. The 14-minute video sees testimonies from both mentors – ...

The 2D "Bird Karma" and CG "Bilby" offer two very different stories about survival, and are now Oscar contenders after playing Annecy. Without an animated feature release this year (“How to Train Your ...