The sheen of satin, the subtle glints of twill, the translucence of sheer silk: Fabric has long been difficult to render ...

The country’s animation industry has come a long way since legendary Filipino cartoonist Larry Alcala created a short black-and-white animated clip featuring a girl doing jump rope and a boy playing ...

OceanVeil have announced that they are partnering with Kadokawa and Ascendant Animation to produce an English dub for what they call "the viral hit anime" Nukitashi The Animation. While no further ...

Why it matters: For decades, JPEG, PNG, and GIF have remained among the most popular image formats, even as newer options like WebP and AVIF have emerged. Now, PNG is getting its first meaningful ...

Can a 3D Minecraft implementation be done entirely in CSS and HTML, without a single line of JavaScript in sight? The answer is yes! True, this small clone is limited to playing with blocks in a world ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's RTX Neural Texture Compression, enabled by DirectX 12's Cooperative Vectors, reduces VRAM usage up to 7X while enhancing texture quality for 4K gaming. This AI-driven technology ...

Researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have demonstrated an innovative method to control magnetism in materials using an energy-efficient electric field. The discovery focuses on materials known ...

A.I. has yet to upend Hollywood. But it is starting to make big inroads in animation. The founders of Toonstar, a small animation studio in downtown Los Angeles, have incorporated A.I. at various ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Plant-based seafood alternatives should have similar flavors, textures and nutritional content to the foods they mimic. And recreating the properties of fried calamari rings, which have a neutral ...

TL;DR: Texture compression has been crucial in gaming, especially with 4K resolution demands. In 2025, AI-powered methods will enhance performance by reducing texture sizes without quality loss.