Category: Animation

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Why it matters: For decades, JPEG, PNG, and GIF have remained among the most popular image formats, even as newer options like WebP and AVIF have emerged. Now, PNG is getting its first meaningful update in over 20 years with the...

Outright Games, a publisher of family-friendly interactive entertainment, is working with animation studio Aardman on the game Chicken Run: Eggstraction. Based on Aardman’s iconic Chicken Run franchise, this top-down, heist game picks up where Aardman’s 2023 film Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget left off, as the gang works together to save chicken-kind. Chicken Run: Eggstraction will...

The Internet Archive made it easier to search for ’90s-era GIFs. GifCities contains millions of animations from the decade of flannel shirts and Soup Nazis. The GIFs were pulled from old GeoCities webpages, which (mostly) bit the dust in 2009. The new version of GifCities is much easier to search. You can now search semantically,...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Forward-looking: Unreal Engine 5 is taxing on PC and console hardware, especially with its Lumen ray tracing feature. A new Witcher 4 tech demo using UE 5.6 showcases improved performance without compromising visual quality. CD Projekt Red emphasized that the footage...

Play sports in virtual reality Unity Animation Engineer Lead (Mobile & VR) $160K – $250K / 0.20% – 0.50% Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. Apply to role › About the role Role Summary Gym Class is a leading social game on Meta Quest with millions of downloads, 71K ratings, and 4.9 stars....

It’s only been a day since ChatGPT’s new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away.” In the last 24 hours, we’ve seen AI-generated images representing...

March 10, 2025 2:00 AM Yarnhub Animation Studios gets 35 million views a month on YouTube for its military history animated videos. Now it’s expanding into gaming. It’s a brilliant move, taking its popularity in military history with its Yarnhub and Blue Paw Print channels to new audiences who love the interactivity of gaming. It...

February 13, 2025 11:00 PM Astro Bot won Game of the Year at the Dice Awards. Image Credit: Sony Astro Bot from Team Asobi took home five major awards at the Dice Awards, including Game of the Year. The game, which Sony said last night sold 1.5 million copies, also won awards for Outstanding Achievement...

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Artemis II to the Moon: Launch to Splashdown (NASA Mission Animation) NASA has released a detailed animation (above) showing how the Artemis II mission will look from launch to splashdown. The Artemis II mission is currently scheduled to launch from Florida’s Space Coast in early 2026 and will fly four astronauts around the moon before...