November 9, 2024 12:01 AM Arcane Season 2 debuts today with the first episodes of the Act I in a three-act final chapter on Netflix. It lives up to the beautiful imagery and deep story of Arcane Season One, which debuted in 2021. Based on Riot Games’ League of Legends, Arcane is an animated steampunk...
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Invincible Fight Girl’s creator wants to keep the dream of serialized animation alive
Juston Gordon-Montgomery grew up during the Attitude Era of pro wrestling — a time when the personalities were humongous, the storylines were wild, and the theater of it all bordered on high camp. Though it has gotten way easier to watch wrestling in the streaming era, the sport’s cultural dominance has waned in the years...
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Invincible season 3 is coming to Amazon in February
It was actually kind of great to see the creative team behind Amazon’s Invincible series be very frank about how laborious the animation process is and take their time to get season 2 properly wrapped up. But when the show returns for its third season next year, you won’t have to worry about a big...
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FireAlpaca, the free digital painting tool, gets a new Brush store
FireAlpaca is the free Digital Painting Software that is available in 10 languages and compatible with both Mac and Windows. Simple tools and controls let you draw an illustration easily. New convenient tools will be added one after another. Features Clear and crisp stroke, watercolor, too Pen, Pencil, AirBrush, and Watercolor are ready to use...
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Luma AI debuts Dream Machine 1.6 video generator with camera motions
September 3, 2024 1:32 PM Screenshot of Luma AI Dream Machine 1.6 camera controls. Credit: Luma AI Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI video generators are multiplying in number and increasing in realism, but one big roadblock preventing them from replacing...
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Spaceport brings Toei’s next IP to gaming UGC creators
August 6, 2024 6:00 AM Image Credit: Toei Animation GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here . Web3...
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Elon Musk shares animation showing Starship catch and stack
Erc X The Starship — comprising the first-stage Super Heavy booster and the upper-stage Starship spacecraft — is the most powerful rocket ever to fly and could one day carry crew and cargo to the moon, Mars, and perhaps on voyages even farther into deep space. SpaceX fans are patiently waiting for news of the...
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At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech
In the third episode of “Creative Dialogues,” an interview series produced by the filmmaking division of generative AI startup Runway, multimedia artist Claire Hentschker expresses a fear that AI will commoditize the artistic process to the point where art homogenizes, regressing to a sort of derivative sameness. “Are you getting this increasingly narrower average of...
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The Rundown: Why anime is having a marketing moment in 2024
By Alexander Lee • March 15, 2024 • 5 min read • Ivy Liu After languishing for years as a niche interest for basement-dwelling nerds, anime has made its way into the mainstream — and in 2024, marketers have gotten the memo. This year, major brands such as McDonald’s are investing in anime to build goodwill among its...
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X-Men ’97 creator reportedly fired by Marvel weeks before premiere
Marvel Studios has fired Beau DeMayo, the creator of the upcoming animated Disney Plus series X-Men ’97, according to The Hollywood Reporter . De Mayo previously produced and wrote for another Marvel show, Moon Knight, and has also worked on The Witcher, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The...