animation
A 1991 animation frames early CGI in religious imagery
Alain Mongeau, nine years before founding MUTEK, and Eric Mattson built an eight-minute case that computer graphics inherited the job of the illuminated manuscript.
animation
museum
Seventeen artists rethink our place on earth at the Frist
Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman opens Sept. 25 in Nashville with game-engine worlds by Ian Cheng and Jakob Kudsk Steensen, plus an MIT Press catalogue.
Jenna Caravello
Jenna Caravello premiered Vimar at Edinburgh's film festival
A games-native animator, associate director of UCLA's Game Lab, cleared one of cinema's oldest showcases with two haunted minutes about a swan.
puppetry
At Nxt Museum, the visitor is the puppeteer
Tales of Two, the first interactive installation from Hague animation studio Yonk, opened at Amsterdam’s new-media museum in July.
Garden of Giants
Cloud materials were eating Garden of Giants' framerate
Dakota Pailes-Friedman tells us what's so heavy
Anat Efrati
Anat Efrati's point-and-click world looks molded by hand
The Tel Aviv animation director teases an unnamed adventure game with stop-motion's thumbprints all over it, built out of Blender.
Jackie Turpin
Jackie Turpin's tennis project starts with Nadal's serve
The UCLA animator rotoscoped the swing frame by frame to test a 2D-to-3D pipeline, working the seam where drawing meets simulation.
machinima
Miles Buckle Makes Games You Can't Play
Miles Buckle rebuilds Rear Window, Amarcord and Hitchcock's Rope as late-'90s games nobody will ever play, and the impossibility is exactly the point.
News
doku_zen built Balming Tiger's "Janjan" video out of stop-motion puppets
Photographed puppets standing up in a 3D scene as flat cards, the same arrangement Doom used in 1993.
interactive art
Mario von Rickenbach: Intuiting instruction and interaction
Mario von Rickenbach creates playful multimedia experiences that transcend traditional gaming, making interactive art accessible through games, films, and physical installations.
nature
Paloma Dawkins sees the natural world through games
Montreal-based artist Paloma Dawkins creates surreal games that reconnect players with nature, challenging our alienation from the natural world through digital spaces.
News
A VR short film has been nominated for an Academy Award
While last year the Emmy’s recognized the Oculus Story Studio short film Henry, this year another awards ceremony is taking notice of virtual reality—the Academy Awards. Pearl, a VR short from Google, has been nominated for the 2017 Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film. Pearl, released in 201