Stephen Ddungu
Stephen Ddungu animates and scores a one-man prequel
The Sword of Symphony developer’s episodic project 00000 00 0x0000000 unfolds in [The Garden], a border between Ddungu’s games.
animation
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.
museum
Seventeen artists rethink our place on earth at the Frist
Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman brings game-engine worlds by Ian Cheng and Jakob Kudsk Steensen to Nashville, 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.
News
Thirty screen works put games and film in the same room
Onassis ONX hung prototypes beside finished video, arguing that one pipeline—engines, AI tooling, circulation—now shapes both.
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.