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CT-based jet-engine maker Pratt & Whitney sees sales and profits rise in first-quarter 2026

Pratt & Whitney, based in East Hartford, reported higher sales and profits in the first quarter of 2026, according to an ...

Despite using Unreal Engine 5, the Rogue Trooper movie team wanted to avoid an "uncanny-valley video game aesthetic"

Rogue Trooper may share technology with video games, but its producer didn't want it to look like a video game movie ...
Live for Films

Rogue Trooper – Check out the teaser for the animated movie from Duncan Jones

The first teaser for Duncan Jones’ (Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute) eagerly anticipated movie adaptation of classic ...

Rogue Trooper movie team wanted to avoid an uncanny-valley video game aesthetic

Rogue Trooper may share technology with video games, but its producer didn't want it to look like a video game movie ...

‘Rogue Trooper’ First Look At Teaser Trailer For Duncan Jones’ Hand-Crafted Take On ‘2000 AD’ Comic Book’s Dystopian War Machine; Q&A With Filmmakers

But we haven’t given up on it, it’s just that figuring out a new way of making a CG movie takes awhile.” The film marks the ...
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Unreal Engine 5 – Animation Importing & Retargeting Part 1

I’ve spend a lot of time this month, wrapping my head around rigging and animating. Now, if you’re new to animation or Blender / Unreal Engine 5, rigging is the process of creating a skeleton for your ...
Erie Times-News

How PennWest Edinboro built a Hollywood-worthy animation program

PennWest Edinboro's animation program has produced successful alumni, including Lucasfilm President Dave Filoni and Becky van Cleve of Netflix Animation Studios. The program emphasizes a foundation in ...
WRAL

Donald Thompson: Busy CEOs, slow down. Relationships are the engine of meaningful work

Over the past year, I’ve spent a lot of time talking with executives about employee engagement and how that translates into highly effective teams and exceptional organizations. One theme has surfaced ...
TechCrunch

Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing

On Monday, creative suite maker Canva announced the dual acquisition of startups Cavalry, which works on animation, and MangoAI, which works on improving ad performance. U.K.-based Cavalry works on 2D ...
The Next Platform

The Twin Engine Strategy That Propels AWS Is Working Well

Like Google and Meta Platforms, Amazon knows exactly how to infuse AI into its business operations such as online retail, transportation, advertising, and even the Amazon Web Services cloud. Just like ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Pirates director Gore Verbinski is iffy on Unreal Engine in movies: "I think it doesn’t work from a strictly photo-real standpoint"

We interrupt our regular schedule of weaponising hamsters and grizzling about GTA 6 with a word from the world of film – a film being a curious subspecies of video game that plays itself, consists ...
Aviation Week

Boom Supersonic Engine Work Speeds Up After AI Boost

Enclosed within a 42-ft.-long nacelle, the Symphony engine incorporates an axisymmetric spike inlet and plug exhaust nozzle with a translating centerbody. Credit: Boom Supersonic Remarkably, Jan 21.