Pencil is a very realistic sketching program and good 2D animation tool for the cost (free). Think of Pencil (free) as an animator’s digital sketchbook. It’s 2D; you can sketch things very well, then ...

The landscape of animation has undergone a significant shift in 2024, with AI-powered tools at the forefront of this change. These innovative applications have opened up new possibilities for ...

The ‘animation in vr’ space – currently dominated by tools such as Quill and Tvori – looks set to be joined by a new player: Ollie VR. Aimed specifically at beginners, Ollie VR hails from a group of ...

What if you could bring your wildest creative visions to life with just a few strokes of a pen? Imagine sketching a simple arrow or symbol on an image and watching it transform into a dynamic, ...

So far in our series Tools Of The Trade, industry artists and filmmakers have spoken about their preferred tool on a recent project, whether digital or physical. This week we’re tweaking the format: ...

Put together fun and good looking animations on the quick with GoAnimate, a browser-based animation studio that's completely free. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, ...

For those interested in creating 3D art directly in VR, the update to Facebook's Quill released today should be good news. The update includes new animation tools like free frame-by-frame redrawing, ...

Independent developer Cryptic Studios, the company behind MMOs such as City of Heroes (PC) and the upcoming Marvel Universe Online (X360, PC), has released its internal animation tool to the public as ...

How do you do more in the same time? Tools. If I use Photoshop®, why do I need other tools? They are faster. Sometimes you need beautiful creatives, so you use Photoshop®. At other times you need ...