Image Metrics, a company that makes it easy for game developers to create realistic human faces, has raised $8 million in a reverse merger financing. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company will use ...

As we hit Toy Story’s 30th anniversary, we thought about how far animation has come. No disrespect to the O.G., but after a ...

The feature is launching in summer 2023. The feature is launching in summer 2023. is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The ...

The human characters in Disney's new 3-D film "Mars Needs Moms" have been criticized as appearing – get this – too lifelike. But isn't realistic animation a good thing? Not exactly, according to the ...

Most everyone knows the original, incredibly angular Lara Croft of the incredibly popular Tomb Raider series. Since its release nearly 25 years ago, human 3D models and animations have improved vastly ...

Graphics Cards Nvidia's RTX Hair feature looks set to give the cast of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle some fabulously luscious locks VR Hardware Meta shows off two next-gen VR headsets: One with ...

The Uncanny Valley is a notion that states that if you make a robot that it up to 95 percent realistic, it's fantastic. More realistic that that and it's a disaster. That's because a 96 percent ...

Character creation tools have long been a staple in video games, from Cyberpunk 2077 to Dark Souls. This week North Carolina-based developer Epic Games teased the next generation of customization ...