How facial performance capture has evolved from Avengers Infinity War to The Fantastic Four First Steps

Established in the early 1990s, Digital Domain has sustained its profile as a major presence in visual effects, contributing to hugely popular movies that have included the iconic Avengers: Infinity ...
IEEE

AMT-Net: Adversarial Motion Transfer Network With Disentangled Shape and Pose for Realistic Image Animation

Abstract: Computer vision advancements allow motion transfer for animating static objects in images. However, current methods rely on manually collected motion labels and struggle with accurate shape ...
KGW8

Stop-motion animation studio LAIKA contributes to this year's Portland Winter Light Festival

PORTLAND, Ore. — February just got a little brighter. The Portland Winter Light Festival is back for its 11th year, lighting up downtown and neighborhoods across the city. Pioneer Courthouse Square ...
GameSpot

Abide Is A First-Person Horror Game Made With Stop-Motion Animation

There's no shortage of mystery games on Steam, but developer Talha & Jack Co is aiming to put a handcrafted--and gruesome--feel on that genre with its next title, Abide. The duo behind games like ...
Deadline.com

JoJo Siwa Teams With Bhoosan’s Junior To Make Digital-First Animation

EXCLUSIVE: JoJo Siwa is to develop animated digital-first content with kids entertainment business Bhoosan’s Junior. Actress, performer and multi-media personality Siwa and the India-headquartered ...
Yahoo

Brian Robbins Officially Launches Animation Company Big Shot Pictures With First-Look At Sony

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Paramount Global co-CEO Brian Robbins has opened the doors on Big Shot Pictures, a next generation animation company ...
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First image of a black hole

For the first time in history, scientists captured an image of a black hole. The picture confirmed decades of theoretical predictions and revealed details never observed before. What was once purely ...
IEEE

First Order Motion Model for Image Animation and Deep Fake Detection: Using Deep Learning

Abstract: Image animation involves animating an image using a video. In our case, the image contains the face of a person. This face is animated (creation of facial expression) based on the motion of ...
GitHub

Talking-Face Research Papers

2025-08-13 Animate-X++: Universal Character Image Animation with Dynamic Backgrounds Shuai Tan et.al. 2508.09454 null 2025-08-10 Consistent and Controllable Image Animation with Motion Linear ...
GitHub

HY-Motion 1.0: Scaling Flow Matching Models for 3D Motion Generation

HY-Motion 1.0 is a series of text-to-3D human motion generation models based on Diffusion Transformer (DiT) and Flow Matching. It allows developers to generate skeleton-based 3D character animations ...