Microsoft is trying to make Copilot more approachable by giving the AI assistant an animated face to talk with. The experimental “Portraits” feature in Copilot Labs is currently available in the US, ...

Acquisition raises the technical and creative bar for real-time AI avatars with facial and full-body animation combined with cinematic-quality camera movement, enabling more lifelike, immersive, and ...

To prevent jitter between frames, Kuta explains that D-ID uses cross-frame attention and motion-latent smoothing, techniques that maintain expression continuity across time. Developers can even ...

Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to California in 2019. She holds degrees in law and communications, and currently writes news, analysis and features for CNET across ...

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, ...

Digital technology may have led to the decline of hand-drawn animation, but it still required legions of creatives and technicians to feed into the process. Now some fear that artificial intelligence ...

AI can be a scary word in the animation industry, but what many fail to recognize is that it’s a broad umbrella term for a multitude of tools, pipelines, and production approaches. This latest ...

TL;DR: OpenAI-backed animated film Critterz uses generative AI tools to accelerate production, aiming for a Cannes 2026 debut. Combining human artistry and AI, the $30 million project showcases faster ...