A 25-year-old Tom Hanks on Zemeckis' monitor six frames after the camera shot the 67-year-old actor. Brahma AI CTO Jo Plaete on the Emmy-winning face replacement tech behind 'Here,' 'Furiosa' and 'F1' – and what it means for #VFX artists. bit.ly/4iakYsX #VFXWorld

Sauron forges the One Ring and Middle-earth goes to war in the 'Rings of Power' Season 3 trailer. Morfydd Clark and Charlie Vickers return, with @dneg, @ILMVFX and Rodeo FX leading the #VFX. Nov. 11 on @PrimeVideo. bit.ly/4i7Bvhl #Animation #AnimationWorld #VFXWorld

Concept artists rarely get the credit. Rachel Meinerding and Nicole Hendrix Herman on how the Concept Art Awards work: blind judging by peers, no AI allowed. Oct. 24 at @LightBoxExpo, honoring Yoshitaka Amano and Eyvind Earle. bit.ly/4zQI9jA #Animation #AnimationWorld

'The Wingfeather Saga' S4 arrives today on @AngelStudiosInc, adapting the book Andrew Peterson calls his most personal. Peterson, Kevin McNally, Romy Fay, Alkaio Thiele and Henry Ian Cusick talk #animation, grief and faith with AWN. bit.ly/4sfYmfg #AnimationWorld

Baby Shark meets Dr. Seuss Babies in two new Halloween videos, the first crossover between Pinkfong's shark family and baby versions of the Cat in the Hat, Grinch, Lorax and friends on the Pinkfong and Dr. Seuss YouTube channels. bit.ly/3WmU0Ho #Animation #AnimationWorld

Icarus, the animated feature debut of former Pixar animator Carlo Vogele, is on Blu-ray from MediaOCD. The 2022 film retells the Greek myth through Icarus' friendship with a young minotaur and was Luxembourg's 2023 Oscar entry. bit.ly/4BkDJTi #Animation #AnimationWorld

Kylie Minogue, Jonathan Groff and Catherine Tate join Cynthia Erivo in Bad Fairies, the #animation musical from @warnerbros__1 and Locksmith. Minogue voices Clowder the Cat Witch. In theaters May 21, 2027. bit.ly/4Bl3EKL #AnimationWorld

Moho 14.5 SHOWTIME turns rigged characters into live performers: webcam face tracking, gamepad input and live physics drive existing rigs, and a new virtual webcam sends them into streaming software. Free for Moho 14 owners. bit.ly/4z0VtS5 #Animation #AnimationWorld

Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Zoic Studios and @ILMVFX are hiring: 79 new #animation and #VFX openings in today's AWN Jobs Roundup. ILM alone is staffing up in London, Sydney and Mumbai. bit.ly/4z7cevg #AnimationWorld #VFXWorld

The Sisters Grimm showrunner Amy Higgins, author Michael Buckley, and cast members Ariel Winter, Leah Newman, Laraine Newman, and Billy Harris talk about the hand-drawn Apple TV series' new season, Puck's first brush with his own feelings, and why the story keeps coming back to love. Now streaming on Apple TV. bit.ly/4zHqgmZ #animationworld

Super Bowl LXI goes to a galaxy far, far away: @espn's Star Wars Funday Football, a real-time #animation altcast, turns every play into animated avatars and 'Star Wars' characters, with Anthony Daniels as C-3PO. Feb. 14 on @DisneyPlus. bit.ly/4zCT2oO #AnimationWorld

They made it back from space. Now the ocean has them. @Lionsgate dropped the 'Above the Below' trailer: Idris Elba co-directs and stars as one of three astronauts stranded on the ocean floor, oxygen running out. In theaters Dec. 4. bit.ly/3VLL7ai #VFX #VFXWorld

Dan Lin is out as head of film at @netflix, days after layoffs that cut about 1,000 jobs. His 2½-year run saw #animation hits 'Swapped' (144.9M views) and 'KPop Demon Hunters,' Netflix's most-watched film ever. bit.ly/4BiWFSA #AnimationWorld

Loyd Price, the #stopmotion animator who supervised #animation on @aardman's first features and trained a generation of its animators, has died. He won a VES Award for his work on Gromit in 'The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.' bit.ly/4hWTzw0 #AnimationWorld

Koala FX puts Harriet Slater and Arsema Thomas 3,000 feet up a Thai mountain in Fall 2: Deadpoint, the Spierig brothers' @Lionsgate survival thriller. Watch the #VFX breakdown reel of its 400+ shots and full CG Mount Kwan. bit.ly/47urLck #VFXWorld

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 showrunner Bartosz Sztybor on building a '90s-cinema tribute at @trigger_inc with director Kai Ikarashi, and why a camcorder-toting kid became the season's heart. All 10 episodes hit @netflix Oct. 20. @edgerunners bit.ly/47ZUfe6 #Animation #AnimationWorld

Kev's in over his head. @KevinHart4real Lil Kev returns Dec. 9 on @paramountplus with Season 2 sending 12-year-old Kev into the juvenile justice system. @iamwandasykes and @deoncole are back; @ShadowMachine animates. From @LOLNetwork. bit.ly/47vAk6A #Animation #AnimationWorld

How should art schools teach AI filmmaking? Kevin Geiger maps out a freshman year: 70% drawing, writing, design and media studies, 30% generative practice. "The goal is not to generate more. The goal is to decide better." bit.ly/4zCbHBa #Animation #AnimationWorld