Published on: 2025-06-11 21:57:35
Samurai Jack background art by Scott Wills Welcome! It’s a new Sunday issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter, and here’s what we’re doing today: 1) On the visual approach of Samurai Jack. 3) Animation newsbits. With that, let’s go! 1 – Stories in pictures Images alone can tell a story. Just look at Flow, the Oscar winner that has no words but captivates anyway. It stays tense, and puts across character, without a line of dialogue. That’s hard to do in a movie. It might be harder in a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 08:01:07
Many people consider the 1990s a golden age of Disney animation, and rightfully so. The films released during that time changed not just the company, but popular culture and animation in general. However, we think the 2010s, at some point, may be seen as almost reaching that level too. With films like Moana, Wreck-It Ralph, Tangled, Frozen, and Big Hero 6, the legendary studio was simply on fire. And yet, as great as all of those movies are, none of them was the best of that era. That title goes
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 12:30:34
Disneyland is turning 70 this summer, and festivities begin this weekend at Walt Disney’s first theme park. While past anniversaries emphasized a throwback to opening day nostalgia, this milestone wants to bring the party energy like no other. Thankfully, that doesn’t mean turning the castle into a Birthday cake, but the zany fun comes in the form of mix-taping the greatest hits with the latest number ones from the studio. After attending the media week preview at the Disneyland Resort, that’s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 22:08:15
Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR A teardown of a One UI 8 Watch app has revealed a new charging animation for the upcoming smartwatch software. This animation is in line with that of One UI 7 on smartphones, suggesting a more consistent look and feel between devices. Samsung is working on the One UI 8 Watch software, which is expected to launch later this year. We’ve already discovered plenty of details about this new software, and it looks like it has a nifty new charging animation t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-30 20:30:17
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding expressive new animations to Android for interactions like dismissing notifications and toggling settings. Physics-based notification dismissals, shape-shifting Quick Setting tiles, and a power button ‘squeeze’ effect are incoming. A waveform appears on the volume slider during playback, and the lock screen clock gets a new tap animation. Google is creating some expressive new animations to make Android feel more lively during interac
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 09:00:00
Creating animation is a time-consuming process, requiring multiple steps including storyboarding, rendering, composition, and lighting to craft a single scene. If a director wants to experiment with a different take for a scene, an animation team has to go back and tweak things before the scene can be finalized. Cheehoo, a startup founded by a mix of Hollywood execs and technologists, wants to create an AI-powered tool to make it easier for creatives to produce animated content. The startup wa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 20:01:05
Role Summary Gym Class is a leading social game on Meta Quest with millions of downloads, 71K ratings, and 4.9 stars. We’re now expanding the game to new interests and platforms, and looking for a talented and experienced Animation Engineer to drive the future of character movement and interaction in our evolving game world. In this pivotal role, you'll take ownership of our animation systems built in Unity, focusing on delivering high-quality, performant, and engaging experiences, particularl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-09 20:45:22
The animation industry in partnership with ASIFA-Hollywood has launched AnimAID, and a fundraising auction at Sotheby’s is set to raise money for industry folks affected by the LA wildfires. The Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures Animation, DreamWorks Animation, LAIKA, and more big studios have all donated an array of rare and unique pieces of animation art for interested parties to bid on. The online auction opened this week with the hopes of aiding artists and professionals w
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Reverse engineered UI library from the best sites on the web Effortlessly integrate trending animated components to your projects, with all the styling and animations handled for you.
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The slate of animation coming to France’s annual Annecy Festival, running June 8-15, has been announced. And with it comes a lot of exciting presentations from global studios big and small celebrating the timelessness and reach of the medium around the world. Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros. Animation, DreamWorks, and Sony Animation are among the larger studios making a splash at the festival, including anticipated projects from Star Wars, Stranger Things, Marvel, and DC. None other than Bugs Bunn
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-28 08:35:17
For my game The Big Forest I want to have creatures that are both procedurally generated and animated, which, as expected, is quite a research challenge. As mentioned in my 2024 retrospective, I spent the last six months of 2024 working on this — three months on procedural model generation and three months on procedural animation. My work on the creatures actually started earlier though. According to my commit history, I started in 2021 after shipping Eye of the Temple for PCVR, though my work
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-04 08:15:51
The shonen anime scene is evolving, bringing in new waves of content as iconic classics like My Hero Academia near their conclusions. While the dust has not settled on which new anime show will usher in a new era under the superhero genre, Crunchyroll’s latest addition, To Be Hero X, has confidently entered the arena to plant a flag as its new standard-bearer. What’s more, its premiere episode emphatically shines a spotlight on Chinese animation, a historically under-appreciated medium that is a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-21 08:00:38
We live in an era where we get more anime in a single season than we used to in an entire year, and 2025 is packed with tons of shows competing to be the must-watch show of the year. Among them is Lazarus, and the premiere episode of Cowboy Bebop creator Shinichirō Watanabe‘s hotly anticipated new sci-fi series on Adult Swim effortlessly leaves a lasting impression, marking it as a classic in the making. Set in 2052, Lazarus takes place in a world on the brink of unprecedented peace and stabili
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-23 12:39:28
is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Though the first chapter of Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects animated series is about to wrap up this Sunday, the story isn’t over yet. Today, Adult Swim announced that Common Side Effects has been renewed for a second season that will continue the story of a man trying to save the world (and upend big pharma) with a strange mushroom
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-29 15:03:00
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Screen Effects add some big screen-filling animations to your Google Messages chats. So far, Screen Effects have been activated by using specific text trigger phrases. Messages now appears to respond similarly when you send pairs of certain emoji. Update, March 25, 2025 (01:03 PM ET): We’ve been working to identify all the emoji pairs that manage to activate these full-screen animations, and here are the ones that we’re seeing trigger Screen Effects:
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-09 03:26:56
Liquid Shape Distortions 🌀 Psychedelic animation generator; (p)art of your next trip Create psychedelic art using liquid motion, distortion, shadows and light. This tool is free, and works in real-time in the browser. This project was inspired by drum & bass / acid techno music, and 90s rave posters. Use this to create art for a music video, concert posters, stylized animations in creative projects, or simply to enjoy alongside some fine music. Controls / hotkeys: 🎲: randomize all inputs [
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-14 10:00:55
SUMMARY Gym Class is the top rated game on the Meta Quest platform (58K ratings, 4.9 stars). Millions of players globally have downloaded GC to make friends, explore social worlds, and compete to become a star. Our community formed around social basketball, and is now rapidly expanding interests and gameplay - including football, baseball, and much more. As a Lead Technical Artist, you’ll play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between art and engineering, ensuring high-quality character anima
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-14 15:00:55
SUMMARY Gym Class is the top rated game on the Meta Quest platform (58K ratings, 4.9 stars). Millions of players globally have downloaded GC to make friends, explore social worlds, and compete to become a star. Our community formed around social basketball, and is now rapidly expanding interests and gameplay - including football, baseball, and much more. As a Lead Technical Artist, you’ll play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between art and engineering, ensuring high-quality character anima
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-23 15:00:29
One of the many wonderful things about animation is you can literally own the movie you love. Before computers took over, each frame of a movie was made by hand and those images were often sold as collectibles. Owning a screen-used movie prop or costume is one thing. Owning the entire screen is something else entirely. And that’s exactly what you can do thanks to Heritage Auctions, which is running “The Art of Anime, Vol. VI,” a stunning collection of original animation art from all of your fav
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-26 17:00:05
Ryan Haines / Android Authority Usually, when my friends hype up Apple’s iMessage, all they care about is showing up as blue bubbles on each other’s screens. And, for most people, that’s good enough — they want to include all of their iPhone-carrying friends in the same group chats, ignoring that RCS now makes pretty much every group chat feel the same, whether green or blue. However, that only scratches the surface of what iMessage can do. Once you move past the fact that you can react with e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-01 01:23:45
Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google has taken a massive step towards fixing the animation issues that have plagued third-party launchers on Pixel phones for years. The fixes are currently rolling out as part of the March 2025 update. In our tests, animations are now far smoother on Niagara and Nova Launcher, however, some issues remain. Third-party launchers have never felt smooth on Google’s Pixel hardware. Whether by design or due to technical issues, there always seems to be a
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